Lesley Marshall is an award-winning filmmaker, intermedia artist, and is a MFA candidate / sessional teacher at the University of Victoria. Projection art, films and music by Lesley have toured and screened nationally and internationally appearing in over 120 festivals. They are the 2023 CMPA Diversity Mentorship Recipient for the CBC/PBS feature Animal Pride and a commissioned animator for CBC’s The Nature of Things. With work engaging with queer politics and crip theory, Lesley investigates experiential design through a responsive practice using performance art, projection and sound. 2021-2024, with collaborator Ashley Bowa, Lesley presented the award-winning Green Gazing, a projection immersion installation of plants and experimental movement at Ada X, Montreal, Workman Arts, Toronto, Vancouver Mural Festival, and at DARC, Ottawa. Lesley works developing anti-oppression based filmmaking practice for others to train in and has presented on these practices at the Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival and Conference London UK 2023, University of Ottawa, CineVic, Carleton University and Surveillance and Society Conference in the Netherlands.

Motivated by technology, feminism, queer theory and geography, Lesley’s projects juxtapose fragility with the gritty honesty of real life. Desire, longing, satire and femme iconography are found dispersed throughout her often tongue-in-cheek work. Her/their most recent work is in projection, analogue and digital sound and projection sculpture.