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Rachel Garfield is an artist. She is Professor in Fine Art at the University of Reading and Principle Investigator of a large AHRC funded grant (2019-2021) entitled The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin’s Personal Cinema. She is author of Experimental Film making and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture of the 1970s and 1980s (Bloomsbury, 2022) and with Henry K. Miller, co-editor of Dwoskino: The Gaze of Stephen Dwoskin (LUX, 2022). Exhibitions and screenings include, The Whitechapel Gallery, The Hatton Gallery, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, Focal Point, London Short Film Festival, Open City Doc Festival, The Babylon Cinema Berlin, Espaciocentre, Tenerife Espacio De Les Artes, Oranim, Haifa, CCA Santa Fe, Arizona State University Museum, and Aqua Art Fair Miami. Garfield’s work has featured in Amelia Jones, “An ‘Other’ History: Feminist Art in Britain Since 1970,” eds. John Slyce and Phoebe Adler, Contemporary Art in the United Kingdom (Black Dog Publishing, 2015); Julia Steyn, “In the Hinterlands: Identity, Migration & Memory,” eds. Juliet Steyn and Nadja Stamselberg, Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste (Tauris, 2014).