Ania Ruszkowski is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the layered complexities of Anglo-Polish identity, hybridity, and the diasporic experience. Originally graduating as a portrait painter, she first developed the Recreating Home series—an ongoing body of symbolic, highly detailed paintings that depicted imagined domestic interiors. These works reflect the hybrid diasporic dwelling: spaces shaped by longing, memory, and cultural inheritance. Through motifs drawn from Polish folk traditions and British domestic life, the series investigates how displaced identities find anchorage in material surroundings. Now pursuing a Master’s in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, Ania has expanded her practice beyond painting into sculpture, installation, and print. 

Her current work engages with heritage crafts such as crochet, which she reinterprets using contemporary materials like resin and plaster. By layering, imprinting, and casting reclaimed objects, she creates hybrid forms that resist easy categorisation—much like the identities they represent. A palette of whites and transparent textures evokes the “White Other,” referencing how diasporic identities are often homogenised or overlooked within British culture. Ania’s iterative, experimental approach mirrors the constant negotiation of belonging, situating her work in the liminal space between personal history and collective cultural memory.