Ania Ready is a visual artist and writer working across photography, installation and archival intervention. Her work explores women's overlooked histories and the structures of power that shape whose stories are seen and heard, returning attention to lives too often reduced to silence or a footnote.
Her artist book I Also Fight Windmills is held by the Bodleian Library, National Galleries of Scotland, Martin Parr Foundation and Aperture Library.
Life Lines at Wozownia Art Gallery, Poland, 2025. The project responds to the story of Holocaust survivor Naomi Warren through installation, soil and archival film.
About
Ania Ready's work centres on women whose lives have been pushed to the margins of history: overlooked, misrepresented, spoken for by others, medicalised into silence or reduced to footnotes in someone else's story.
Working across photography, collage, text, moving image, sound and installation, she brings archival material into conversation with staged images and physical materials. Soil, water and photographic chemistry have become part of her visual language, carrying traces of place while introducing chance, change and instability.
Available Works
Water Mark (Rumia River), 2026.
A unique Polaroid taken and immersed in the Zagorska Struga River in Rumia, Poland. Dipped directly in the water it depicts, the print's emulsion registers the physical effect of that immersion. The material is altered by the same water captured in the image.
Details
Unique Polaroid
10.8 × 8.8 cm (4.25 × 3.5 in)
2026
Unique work
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Self-portrait with a Mirror, 2022, from the photographic series I Also Fight Windmills.
An archival pigment print on PermaJet Silk Fine Art paper, signed and numbered by the artist on the verso. A certificate of authenticity is included.
Print options
A4
30 × 21 cm, full bleed
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
A3
42 × 30 cm, full bleed
Edition of 7 + 2 AP
Larger editions
A2 and A1 editions are available by enquiry. Contact the artist.
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A collector's edition of I Also Fight Windmills, presented in a handmade box alongside two fine art prints from the series: Veiled and Draft of a Novel.
Limited to 10 boxed editions in total.
Prints
Each print is made on PermaJet photo art silk paper, 8 x 10 inches, signed and numbered by the artist in pencil on verso, in an edition of 10. The photobook itself is signed and numbered, nested within the box alongside the prints.
Photobook
Format: Hardcover, foil-blocked, with a tipped-in cover image
Size: 17.5 x 22.7cm, 160 pages
Publisher: VIKA Books, 2023
Designer: Victoria Forrest
Edition: 300 signed and numbered copies
ISBN: 9780957025592
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Mentoring & Talks
Ania offers one-to-one mentoring for artists developing their practice, helping them clarify their artistic voice and professional profile, review and strengthen portfolios, and prepare for exhibitions. She also gives talks and lectures for universities, museums and cultural institutions.
Drawing on a decade of experience exhibiting with museums and galleries in the UK, US and Poland, alongside extensive work with archives and cultural institutions, she offers direct, practical guidance grounded in real-world experience rather than generic advice.
Journal
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Stories Behind the Images: Leading Tours of Lee Miller: A Woman at War
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A Note, an Address, a Line to Houston: Holocaust Museum Houston