£2.7m grants for art gallery showcasing sex workers

AN ART gallery that receives millions of pounds of public funding is staging an exhibition devoted to celebrating sex workers.

The event at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) will feature 13 artists, including sex workers, a porn actress and strippers, alongside art featuring sex, nudity and violence.

Publicity for the Decriminalising Futures exhibition says it will ‘highlight the history of the sex worker rights movement’ and its ‘links to issues of racial and social justice, migrant rights, labour rights, anti-austerity work, and queer and trans liberation’.

Accounts for the ICA, based on The Mall in London, show it received £2.7million in five Government grants last year. During