Ania Freer is an Australian-Jamaican artist, filmmaker, cultural researcher, and curator based in Kingston, Jamaica. She attended The University of Sydney and received a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Film Theory. Through installation and video portraiture, as well as her curatorial work, Ania addresses themes central to the Jamaican experience such as Black empowerment, resistance, feminism, environmental justice, and spirituality. All while disrupting imperialist narratives, Ania collects meaningful, lesser-known stories in order to uplift the historical legacies of autonomy, self-determination, and liberation that shape her island home. She is the founder of Goat Curry Gallery, a platform which features artworks from Jamaican craft producers along with her documentary series REAL TALK, an intimate collection of interviews from across Jamaica, exploring identity through themes of social justice, class, race and familiar relationships.
Ania has exhibited at the London CHROM International Art Festival (2017) and the National Gallery of Jamaica’s Summer Exhibition (2019). She curated her first group exhibition, ‘All That Don’t Leave’, during her Curatorial and Art Writing fellowship at New Local Space Kingston (2019), which interrogated the line between art and craft and questioned “who can be called an artist” and “how do we assign value to works”. She is an inaugural Fellow in the 2021 cohort of Caribbean Film Academy and the grant recipient of the New York Black Creative Endeavours Grant (2020) and the Filmed by Bike BIPOC Filmmaker Grant, Oregon (2021).