Ania Freer is an Australian-Jamaican artist, filmmaker, cultural researcher, and curator whose work explores her Jamaican identity. She attended The University of Sydney and received a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Film Theory. Working in installation, video, and curating, Ania uses oral histories to explore themes that are central to the Jamaican experience such as Black empowerment, resistance, labour, craft practices, spirituality and folklore. She collects and presents meaningful, lesser-known stories in order to celebrate legacies of autonomy, self-determination, and liberation that shape her island home and disrupt imperialist narratives. 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 familial relationships.    

Ania has exhibited in the National Gallery of Jamaica’s Summer Exhibition, she is an Art Omi: Artist in Residence Fellow, a Caribbean Film Academy Fellow, an AIRIE (Artist in Residence in Everglades), the recipient of the Black Creative Endeavours Grant, the inaugural Curatorial and Art Writing Fellow at New Local Space Kingston among others. In 2022 she began research in Senegal, West Africa, conducting interviews and building important relationships with fishing communities.