We are excited to host presentations from Ania Ready, Gianluca Urdiroz, Holly Houlton, Paul Romans and Tommy Sussex.

The photographers and artists will all present new work that has been made during the past year. Their projects have been created in response to the historical time we have been living through and explore the political, social and personal effects of Covid – 19.

Ania Ready:

Ania Ready is a photographic artist of Polish origin based in Eynsham, West Oxfordshire. She came to photography from a literary background. Her work centres around notions of belonging and alienation, memory and amnesia, mental fragility and poetics of existence. She has a special interest in the topic of femininity and mental illness. In her practice she also examines her Polish heritage. Her main focus is photography but she also utilizes other art forms like collage and installation. Ania has exhibited her work internationally in group and solo shows. Her images were presented at Modern Art Oxford, Pitt Rivers Museum, Humanit'Art Gallery, Auckland Photo Festival in New Zealand, and many other places. https://aniaready.com/work

Gianluca Urdiroz:

Gianluca Urdiroz, is a Basque/Italian photographer currently working at FABRICA Research Centre. Their projects are often explorations of the relationships between two agents, whether it´s people, ideas and the environment. https://gianurdiroz.com/

Holly Houlton:

Holly Houlton is a first class graduate from Coventry University; she is a photographer and writer based in the UK.

Houlton’s work explores people and place with a particular interest in the effects they have on one another in relation to experience and time. Using a personal approach, themes of intimacy, relationship and self-reflection are applied to interpret surrounding environments. Specific attention to detail and light attempts to draw out the perhaps otherwise unseen; stimulating emotive contemplation.

Alongside her visual practice, she writes about photography in journalistic and academic form - regularly contributing to and published by numerous established platforms. During 2020, Houlton founded and launched a writing platform called Now Tell Me, dedicated to giving freelance and emerging writers on photography the freedom to write self-directed content.

https://www.hollyhoulton.com/

Paul Romans:

Paul Romans is a professional photographer and videographer based in London UK. He completed a BA in Fine Art in 1989, during which time he focused on the emerging convergence of photography, interactive media and critical theory. After an extended period working in the industry, he came back to education in 2018 and completed an MA (with Distinction) in Documentary Photography & Photojournalism at the University of Westminster.

His socially engaged practice focuses on social phenomena in contemporary urban environments. The work is influenced by notions of “speculative documentary” and is further informed by ontologies of assemblage, affect and trauma.

His graduation project, “Subversive Code” was created during the first months of the Covid19 crisis in the UK. It has subsequently been featured in the Source and Pupilsphere magazines. Images from the work have been included in the current International Center of Photography “ICP Concerned” show and The Photographers Gallery online platform. https://www.paulromans.com/

Tommy Sussex:

Tommy Sussex is an editorial, documentary, and portrait photographer currently living and working in London. Sussex grew up in Devon and relocated to Bristol to study Photography in 2012.

The images he makes attempt to render an individual social reality that carries political weight. His process focuses on self-experience and attempts to navigate that which falls outside of expected photographic reportage, to encompass symbolic gestures and abstracted scenarios.

Sussex is currently developing long-term projects in Eastern and Western Europe whilst shooting for a broad range of commercial clients. Sussex is Currently studying a MA Cultural Policy, Relations and Diplomacy at the Goldsmiths University of London. https://tommysussex.com/