Paul Bush was born in 1956 and studied Fine Art at Central School of Art and Design and Goldsmiths College, London. He taught himself how to make films while a member of the London Film-Makers Co-op and Chapter Film Workshop in Cardiff. From 1981 to 1993 he taught film-making, establishing a film workshop in south London and supervising a wide variety of courses and the production of numerous student films. Between 1995 and 2001 he taught on the visual arts course at Goldsmiths. He has lectured, run workshops and tutored at numerous art and film courses around the world, including the Academy of Media Arts of Cologne, CalArts, St Lukas in Brussels, KASK in Ghent, HGK Lucerne, the Royal College of Art, Duncan of Jordanstone and the National Film and Television School in Britain.