Art Sex Work is a 20 min essay film that traces some of the ethical complexities of the sex debates and disability through interviews with sex workers, actors, drawing, found and filmed footage. Using imagery from the contemporary moment, back to the early 1970s it builds a complex collage formally and conceptually of a particular cultural debate. This film is part of the AHRC project “The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin’s Personal Cinema”. Stephen Dwoskin (1939-2020) was a polio survivor and wheel-chair user and often worked with sex workers as actors in his films, one of whom, Cosey Fanny Tutti is in this film. The film is organised through the loose thematic groupings of – joy, pleasure, frustration, debt, labour. and layered collage that, in addition to the interviews, comprises drawings, found footage from 20th films, found sound, footage shot by Dwoskin and shot footage by Garfield and a second sex worker interviewee.

“Art Sex Work”, screened at Designathon 2023, as part of Feminism in Public Space festival, Zurich, nominated by Ursula Meyer
“Art Sex Work,” semi-finalist at the Rotterdam Independent, Berlin Independent Film Festival Film Festival, 2023
Screened at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Dec 2023; London Short Film Festival, ICA London, January 2023; Beaconsfield Gallery as part of the Monica Sjoo exhibition, June 2023.
“Art Sex, Work”, Berlin Shorts Awards, semi-finalist, October 5, 2023
“Art Sex Work”, semi-finalist at the Austin International Film Festival, Texas, April 2024