Alan Cunningham works primarily with text and moving image. Current work explores nostalgia/time, vulnerability, personhood, the concept of the boundary, spatial ethics/aesthetics, sanctity/profanity and the mythologies of nature and the 'able' body. Previous work includes Count from Zero to One Hundred (2013), Sovereign Invalid (2018) (both text), Sangar (2019) and How They Have Performed Their Buildings (2022) (both moving image). His moving image work has been most recently exhibited at Antre Peaux (FR), the Werkleitz Centre for Media Art (GER) and NeMe (Cyprus) as a member of the Forms of Ownership (FOO) collective. He is the recipient of funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, EMARE/EMAP and Film London (FLAMIN Fellow 2021/22). Originally from the north of Ireland, he is currently based in London.

His most current work is the collection New Green Fool (2025), available to buy now from gorse.