Agata Read is an artist and researcher living in St. Leonards-on-Sea, UK.
She has just completed her art practice-based PhD programme on Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland.
Her research interest includes the relationship between photography, feminism and thread as well as the process of intervening in the material structure of photography.
Agata was born in Gdansk (Poland), into a family with artistic traditions. In 2006, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, obtaining a master's degree in interior design. Shortly thereafter, she moved to England, where she continued her studies at the University of Sussex.
Before returning to photography, she worked with screen printing for many years.
She is a graduate of the Sputnik Photos mentoring program, where she studied narrative structures and documentary strategies in photography (2019).
She completed an International Center of Photography course on Feminist Photographies in 2021.
Her photos were shown at the International Biennale of Photography at BWA in Kielce in 2018 and during the Gdańsk Biennale 2021.
In 2020, she qualified for the ShowOFF exhibition during Photomonth in Krakow.
In 2021, she received an honorable mention in the LENSCRATCH competition "Artist Intervenes".
This year she has been accepted into a TRACE mentorship program as a mentee. (UK).
