British Uruguayan social artist using theatre, music, film & education to amplify queer, decolonial & environmental communities & campaigns across UK/internationally. Raised in the folk musics of London's South American diáspora, Alex composes jazz, classical, folk and electronica across many instruments. Their debut album Seeds are Sewing (Songlines 4 stars) was called the most "refreshing and uplifting album in 2025" by LWM. Their euphoric Latin rock band Vientos toured England and Wales in May 2025 and their storytelling show captures 50 years Latin American social movements through song.
As co-director of Sibling Arts CIC Alex has raised over £1.7M for frontline, marginalised women, queer, trans, migrant & disabled artists, from the arts, feminist, LGBTQ+ rights & public health spheres, delivering £4M in press/media impact (independently estimated). Alex has been invited by funders, policy makers & government departments to inform access, grantee-centric objective setting and movement-wide funding priorities. A holistic, process-oriented, trauma-informed pedagogy innovates collaboration processes that devolve power to constituents over the art, production, representation & meta-narrative. Last year a PhD was published on Alex Etchart and Siobhán Knox’ work by Dr. Imogen Flower at Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Alex' award-winning magnum opus Sex Worker’s Opera, co-created with Siobhán Knox, toured to 9 countries, selling 97% of all tickets to standing ovations every night, attracting huge press coverage & performing at the International AIDS Conference and Amsterdam Pride. It is created by London-based sex workers & draws on over 100 stories sent in from 18 countries across 6 continents. This is under script development on a feature length film script in collaboration with the Sex Worker Theatre collective in Cape Town, South Africa.
- Alex' first short film ‘Johnny Barnes’ (2023) is used in secondary schools & teacher training to engage young people around non-binary hxstory via storytelling.
- Alex produced radio and international street theatre with Teatro di Nascosto’s artists living across the Middle East.
- Alex Creatively Directs Fire Choir, hosted by Nest Collective.
- Alex' new band Vientos connects euphoric folk with Latin rock to sing forth new utopias. Their debut album Seeds are Sewing of a cappella songs of joy & justice recorded with 60 singers, was given 4 stars in Songlines & called 'the most uplifting and refreshing album of 2025' by LWM.
Alex have delivered projects with Arts Council England, Performers’ Rights Society, Big Issue Invest, Royal Opera House, Open Society Foundations, Mamacash, Funders Concerned About AIDS, Aidsfonds, Amnesty International, American Jewish World Service, Feminist Review Trust & run workshops with Dutch Ministry of Justice, Cambridge University and grassroots organisations like Sisters Uncut, SOAS Detainee Support, Dhiverse (LGBTQ+ Sex Ed) and Latin American women’s refuges.
