Shanshan Wu

I am a China-born, UK-based filmmaker and multimedia artist currently pursuing a practice-based PhD in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool. My research focuses on digital media memories in everyday life and creative practice as a research method.

My artistic practice spans photography, experimental filmmaking, essay film, and video installation, and my work has been presented in exhibitions and screenings across China and the UK. Shaped by a transcultural background across China, Australia, and the UK, I often explore themes of intimacy, displacement, alienation, belonging, and otherness in relation to migration and everyday life.

I am the co-founder of Shuttles — A Migrant Photography Collection, an independent quarterly online exhibition dedicated to migrant creators. Shuttles creates a space for photographic and moving-image work engaging with migrant memory, lived experience, and image-making as collective imagination.

My pronouns are she/her. I live with two cats, a Maine Coon named Kai Kai and a Siamese named Mia. Outside of my artistic and academic work, I am also a video game player and fan fiction writer.