Thursday 28 April 19:00 via Zoom
Ania Dabrowska is Polish born, London based artist, curator, educator and producer of projects, and events in the UK and abroad, with a history of work in fashion, TV and film before arriving at visual art and photography. Her work is often socially engaged, using participatory and collaborative methodologies. She works with photography, installation, text, sound, and moving image. She is interested in the narrative and cultural possibilities that emerge when bringing together different identities, archives, collections, timelines, beliefs, traditions and re-configuring them in a context of new work.
International residencies she has taken part in include the Ashkal Alwan residency in Beirut, the SPACE artist residency at Arlington, a hostel for homeless men and women, the Dharamshala International Artists Workshop, the Khoj International Artists Association in Delhi and the White Crane Arts & Media in Dharamshala India, for which she was nominated by the Polish Cultural Institute in Delhi.
She has been a workshop facilitator and mentor for participatory photography projects with international organizations since 2004 such as Free Press Unlimited, British Council, PhotoVoice, SPACE, World Vision, United Response, CAST, University of Luton and the U-Turn Project, with whom she has been working with disengaged, vulnerable and marginalised social groups in the UK, Russia, Northern Ireland, Uganda, Albania, Georgia, North and South Cyprus.
She is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at London Metropolitan University School of Art, Architecture and Design since 2013 and a visiting lecturer at the MA in Art, Society, Nature at the Margate School. She he has been a public speaker and lecturer in Visual Art, Photography and Contextual Critical Studies since 2006, in institutions including the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University, Goldsmiths College, Notre Dame University in Beirut, V&A, ICA, BALTIC, London Art Fair, Brighton Photo Biennale, Tate Britain and more.
Ania Dabrowska’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in the UK, Portugal, Germany, USA, Lebanon, Colombia and India since 2001 and is held in international private and public collections. She was the Winner of the Observer Hodge Photographic Award in 2003, selected for the National Portrait Gallery Photographic Portrait Award in 2007 and was awarded The Wellcome Trust People Award 2008 to 2011. Her work has been published as monograph artist’s books and included in numerous international publications, magazines, as well as being featured across mainstream international broadcast media, international newspapers, magazines and academic papers.
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