Ania Freer is organic, delicate, and light. Her work flows with a natural ease that feels almost mystical, effortlessly drawing the viewer in and guiding them toward a territory where purpose, memory, and consciousness speak to one another with gentle clarity.
Her bicultural heritage shapes her perspective, which is a blend of Australian and Jamaican, and is informed by her studies in Anthropology and Film Theory at the University of Sydney. This intersection of academic discipline and artistic sensibility sustains a practice committed to oral histories, community knowledge, and cultural memory.
From that same foundation, she founded Goat Curry Gallery, a platform that highlights the work of Jamaican artisans and hosts her documentary series REAL TALK, where she captures on video stories and viewpoints that rarely find a place within traditional art circuits.
Recently, at The Carter Project, Freer unveiled “Raised by Water, Held by Land.” The installation featured three short films created during her 2022 AIRIE residency and subsequent visits to the park, incorporating the oral histories of Daniel Tommie (Seminole Tribe of Florida), Dinizulu Gene Tinnie, and Dr. Wallis Tinnie. These memories, which are intertwined with the landscape, reveal deep connections between territory, culture, and resistance.
Curated by Cornelius Tulloch, the Global Artistic Director of Florida’s training center, the installation was presented during Miami Art Week 2025, in partnership with Art Basel Miami Beach. Its opening also marked the beginning of AIRIE’s 25th anniversary celebration, an organization dedicated to fostering residencies that allow artists, writers, and creators to rethink, from within the park itself, new ways of relating to nature.
Freer succeeded in making each visitor pause for a moment, to breathe, observe, and listen, so she could guide them to recognize the fragility of the environments that sustain us and to confront the pressures that threaten them, a duality almost sketched as a metaphor of water and trees in the beautiful silhouette of the Everglades.
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