ELIZABETH RANSOM
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Elizabeth Ransom is a visual artist and researcher based between the UK and the US working with alternative photographic practices.

She is a teaching assistant and associate lecturer for the MFA and BA photography courses at UCA Farnham. 

She is the Assistant Researcher and Project Administrator for Fast Forward: Women in Photography.

Elizabeth is also the Studio Manager and Community Lead for the online creative community Work Show Grow.

As an artist Ransom takes from her own life experiences of migration to explore transnationality, place attachment, transnational feminism, and declarative episodic memory. Her work has been exhibited internationally in the UK, India, Mexico, China and the US.
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Email: Elizabeth_a_ransom@hotmail.com

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UPCOMING TALKS AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
 
20-24 July 2022             "Chemigrams, Crystalograms, and Soil Chromatography" by GuL Cevikoglu, Stig Marlon and
                                         Elizabeth Ransom, EXP. 22 III International Festival on Experimental Photography, Barcelona Spain
2 - 9 Sept 2022              "Migration, Place Attachment and Gender" Talking Place: A Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan                                                 University The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester UK
7 - 9 Sept 2022              "Visualising Women’s Stories of Migration" Silenced Voices, MeCCSA 2022 conference at Robert                                                     Gordon University, Aberdeen Scotland

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

24 May - 12 June 2022   WORDplay, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath UK
13 - 27 July 2022             World within Worlds 2022: In Transition, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham UK
SUMMER                         maybe. magazine, a magazine published in collaboration between Kalamari Klub and IsoQuant,                                                    Heidleberg Germany





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EDUCATION

Current   MPhil/PhD University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
2019        Post Graduate Certificate in Creative Arts Education, University for the Creative Arts, Epsom, UK
2016        Master of Fine Arts, Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
2012        Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Western Washington University, WA, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022      Worlds within worlds: In Transition, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham UK
​2022      WORDplay, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath UK
2022      Mother Tongue, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham UK
2022      Despatch, New Forest Heritage Centre, Lyndhurst UK
2021      Practice as Research: WIP, Foyer Gallery UCA, Farnham UK
2021      Abstract, Espacio Gallery hosted by Tebbs Contemporary Gallery, London UK
2021     World Cyanotype Day, Alternative Processes, Online Exhibition
2021      Materiality and Landscape, Brewery Tap UCA Project Space, Folkestone UK
2020     Remembering Nature, Farnham Pottery, Farnham UK
2020     W.I.P Work in Progress PhD Exhibition, Brewery Tap UCA Project Space, Folkestone UK
2020     Out of Isolation, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham UK 
2017      London Pinhole Festival, Four Corners Gallery, London, UK
2016      The One Fest Goa International Photo Festival, Goa, India
2016      Flash, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK
2016      F:38, Hoxton Arches, London, UK
2016      UCA Graduate Show, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
2016      Highlights from the University of the Creative Arts, Farnham, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK
2015      Oaxaca Estenopeica, World Pin Hole Day Pop up Show, Oaxaca Mexico and Edinburgh Scotland
2015      First Phase, Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, China
2014      Volunteer Art Show, Seattle Art Museum, WA, USA
2013      The Collective Body, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
2012      Flux-B, B-Gallery, WA, USA
2012      Beyond Borders International College Art Competition, Viking Union Gallery, WA, USA
2012      Obscure: Pinhole Exhibition, B-Gallery, WA, USA
2011      SEM Landscape Installation, SMATE, WA, USA
2011      Two Heads are Better Than One, Western Washington University, WA USA
2011      True Grid, Wilson Library Sky Bridge, WA, USA
2011      Everything Small, Viking Union Gallery, WA, USA 

AWARDS
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2019        Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now Advance HE)
 
TEACHING

Current      Associate Lecturer BA Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham UK
Current      Teaching Assistant MFA Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
2012           Teaching Assistant, Western Washington University, WA, USA

VISITING LECTURER

Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls
West Highland College UHI
Western Washington University

RESEARCH 

Ongoing    Putting ourselves in the picture, AHRC/UKRI Fellowship, Assistant Researcher & Project Administrator, UCA,                              Farnham UK
2019            KATALOG Journal Special Issue 30.2 Fast Forward Women in Photography, Editorial Assistant, UCA, Farnham UK  2016            Women in Photography: A History of British Trailblazers, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Research Assistant,                         Woking, UK 
2016            Elisabeth Frink Horse (1980), Milton Keynes Council, Research Assistant, Milton Keynes, UK 
 
PUBLICATIONS/PEER REVIEWED PAPERS/ARTICLES

2022      Where are you a local? Published by Silvergrass Press (Buy a copy HERE)
2021      'Becoming Sisters; Women Photography Collectives & Organizations' by Aldeide Delgado (Buy a copy HERE)
2021      'United', Work Show Grow, (Order your free copy HERE)
2021      'An interview with Elizabeth Ransom', WWU Phlog (Read on the WWU Phlog website HERE)
2019      'Discussions in Online Collaborative Work, Cohesion and Learning in Higher Education and Cake' by Smart, Ransom,
               Le Fevre, Sheldon, Jones & Mensink, Journal of Useful Investigations in Creative Education, UCA, UK (Read on the                     JUICE website HERE)
2016      ‘Out of Obscurity – Flowers Gallery’ Fleur and Arbor, Online (Read on the Fleur and Arbor website HERE)
2012      The Stone Issue, The Planet Magazine, Western Washington University, WA, USA
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TALKS AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

2022     'Visualising Women’s Stories of Migration' Silenced Voices, MeCCSA 2022 Conference at Robert                                                      Gordon University, Aberdeen Scotland
2022     'Migration, Place Attachment and Gender' Talking Place: A Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan                                                   University The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester UK   
2022      'Chemigrams, Crystalograms, and Soil Chromatography" by GuL Cevikoglu, Stig Marlon and Elizabeth Ransom,
               EXP. 22 III International Festival on Experimental Photography, Barcelona Spain 
2022      'Unfixing photography: Using soil chromatography to record place attachment', Symposium for Artist Research in                     Analog Photography, Helsinki Darkroom Festival, Helsinki Finland
2022      'Artists for Social Impact', Work Show Grow Instagram Live, Online
2021      'Women Migrants: Visualising Transnationality', Matter of Circulation: Research Conference, Creative Folkestone                        Triennial, Folkestone, UK
2021      'Her-O Work in Progress' Carli Adby Photo Instagram Live, Online
2021      'Anywhere you go' Artist Talk Salon 02, Work Show Grow, Online
2021      'PhD student presentations', MFA Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Online
2020     'Presentation of PhD research', MFA Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Online
2011      ‘Why Are You Doing That? Student Panel’ Society for Photographic Education Northwest Regional Conference, WA

SELECTED WORKSHOPS

2021      Botanical Camera-less Photography Workshop, Farnham Pottery
2020     Cyanotype Camera-less Photography, Farnham Pottery
2020     Experimental Cyanotypes Workshops, Farnham Pottery
2020     Introduction to Cyanotypes Workshop, Farnham Pottery
​2020     Introduction to Anthotypes Workshop, Online

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2022                        In Translation, Linear Gallery, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham UK
2018                        Flora, Woking Train Station, Woking, UK
2016 - Ongoing     UCA Farnham: Annual Graduate Photography Show, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK

RESIDENCY

2021       Despatch Artist Residency, Work Show Grow, Lyndhurst, UK

COMMISSIONS

2011      Flora, Macy's Flagship Department Store, WA, USA
 
INTERNSHIP

2015-2016           Exhibition Intern, The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking, UK
 
VOLUNTEER WORK
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2014-2015           Ambassador, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, WA, USA,

OTHER

April 2021 - Ongoing        Studio Manager & Community Lead, Work Show Grow
Nov 2020 - May 2021       Archive Assistant, Jean Wainwright Oral History and Andy Warhol Archive
 


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