About

Ania Ready is a Polish-British visual artist and writer whose work centres on women’s lives, voice and agency. She is interested in the tension between how a person experiences and understands her own life and the narratives constructed around her by others. Her work considers whose voices enter the historical record, whose are doubted, silenced or lost, and how women’s lives have been shaped and represented by social, medical and political structures.

Ready is drawn to lives marked by rupture and change: psychological distress, migration, displacement, war and institutionalisation, and to questions of what people carry with them, what is left behind and how these experiences reverberate through families and across generations. Her own experience of migration and of living between Polish and English informs a parallel interest in language, translation and belonging.

Working across photography, archival material, text, collage and cameraless processes, Ready brings historical material into dialogue with contemporary experience. Her practice extends into moving image, sound and installation, incorporating materials such as soil and water. Through research and material experimentation, she explores the gaps between what is recorded, remembered and ultimately knowable.