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Rachel Garfield
Rachel Garfield is an artist, writer and curator. She is professor of fine art at the Royal College of Art and was principle investigator on the interdisciplinary AHRC-funded project: The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin’s Personal Cinema (2018–22). Garfield has also exhibited her most recent films Art Sex Work (screened at the Institute of Contemporary Art [ICA] in the London Short Film Festival 2023) and Be My Ally (screened at the Swedenborg rooms, London and EKSO [Cyprus, 2023]). She is co-editor of Dwoskino: The Gaze of Stephen Dwoskin (LUX, 2022), shortlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz award and author of the book Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio-Visual Culture of the 1970s and 1980s (Bloomsbury, 2022). Garfield has contributed widely to anthologies and journals particularly on lens-based work, identity politics and feminism and is commissioning editor for Moving Image, Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ). In addition, Garfield has curated screenings at Metrograph, New York (2022, Dwoskino, three programmes); e-flux screen, New York (Dwoskin programme); AEMI, Dublin (2022, a programme of punk films); BFI, London, experimenta (February 2022, screenings and discussions on Stephen Dwoskin); ICA London Short Film Festival (January 2022, punk programme); Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF), amongst many others. Her most recent film Art Sex Work (2022) was screened at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, Designathon 2023 in Zurich, the ICA in the London Short Film Festival 2023 and Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin.
Contact: School of Arts & Humanities, Royal College of Art, 20 Howie Street, London, SW11 4AY, UK