He has won numerous awards and his films have been shown at festivals, cinemas, galleries and on television around the world. There have been retrospective programmes of his films recently in USA, Canada, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary and the UK. He began teaching in 1981 and established a film workshop in South London. He taught on the visual arts course at Goldsmiths between 1995 and 2001, and at the National Film and Television School since 2003. Bush has lectured, run workshops and tutored at numerous art and film courses around the world including Luzern University, Centro Sperimentali di Cinematografia in Italy, and the Royal College of Art. He now teaches on the visual arts course at Harvard.