Mentoring & Talks
Ania Ready offers one-to-one mentoring for artists and gives talks, lectures and workshops for universities, museums, galleries and festivals.
She draws on long-term, research-led projects, work with archives and museum collections, and exhibiting in the UK, US and Poland. See below to learn more.
Artist Mentoring
“Ania was a generous teacher who shared lots of tips and ideas as well as a clear structure for us to follow... I left feeling it was possible to raise the funds for my project.”
Dawn S Rodgers, photographer
Talks
Ania has spoken and taught across universities, festivals and photography organisations since 2016, covering both the conceptual and practical sides of a creative practice.
Her talks draw on her own artistic practice and research, exploring photography, archives, women’s histories, memory and representation, as well as the process of developing research-led work and collaborating with museums and collections.
Recent talks have explored Lee Miller’s life and work at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum; working with soil, memory and difficult histories at the University of Copenhagen; Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska and her Anthology at Kettle’s Yard and the University of Essex; and, in a talk for the National Galleries of Scotland, the development of “I Also Fight Windmills.”
Selected Talks & Workshops
2026 - In Lee Miller’s Footsteps, Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock
2026 - How Much Can We Endure?, National Galleries of Scotland
2026 - Creative Therapeutics as Encounter, Not Resolution, University of Copenhagen
2026 - Regrowing Roots, Writing with Images workshop series, with Penny Simpson, University of Essex
2026 - Archive, Text & Image, Writing with Images workshop series, with Penny Simpson, University of Essex
2025 - Of Bitterness, Doubt and Neglect, book launch, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
2025 - Crowdfunding Your Creative Ideas, Photo Oxford, Modern Art Oxford
2025 - Beneath the Jealous Moon, University of Essex
2024 - Deconstructing Hysteria, University of Copenhagen
2024 - I Also Fight Windmills: In Conversation with Christiane Monarchi, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2024 - I Also Fight Windmills: In Conversation with Rachel Segal Hamilton, Centrala, Birmingham
2023 - Responding to Archives, seminar with MA students, University of the Arts London