Elizabeth Ransom is a PhD candidate at the University for the Creative Arts where she is completing a practice-based PhD on the use of alternative photographic processes to visualise the lived experience of transnationality for migrant women. Ransom works on the Fast Forward: Women in Photography research project as Assistant Researcher and Administrator. As well as working at the University for the Creative Arts as a Teaching Assistant and Associate Lecturer on the MFA Photography and BA (Hons) Photography courses. As an artist Ransom takes from her own lived experiences of migration to explore homesickness and transnationality. Ransom’s research builds on theories of migration, place attachment, and declarative episodic memory particularly from the perspective of the migrant woman. Her work has been exhibited internationally in the UK, India, Mexico, China and the US
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NEWS
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
13 Oct 2022 40 Under 40, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA, USA
UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS
Pre-order now Putting Ourselves in the Picture, published by Trolley Books Pre-order Now
Nov 2022 maybe. magazine, a magazine published in collaboration between Kalamari Klub and IsoQuant, Heidleberg Germany
Nov 2022 Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Women in Photography Changes In Policy and Practice, by
Elizabeth Ransom, Anna Fox, and Maria Kapajeva, Fast Forward: Women in Photography, UCA, UK
CV
EDUCATION
Current PhD candidate, 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 40 Under 40 Women Artists, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA, USA
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
2019 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now Advance HE)
COLLECTIONS
bookRoom Special Collection
UWE Collection
Cardiff Met Collection
PUBLICATIONS/PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS/ARTICLES
2022 'Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Women in Photography Changes In Policy and Practice', by Elizabeth Ransom, Anna Fox, and Maria Kapajeva, Fast Forward: Women in Photography, UCA, UK (coming in November)
2022 'maybe. magazine', Kalamari Klub and IsoQuant (coming in November)
2022 'EXP. 22 International Festival on Experimental Photography Experimentarium Catalog, Experimental Photo Festival, Graficas Campas (Buy a copy HERE)
2022 'Putting Ourselves in the Picture' Fast Forward: Women in Photography, Published by Trolley Books (Pre-order HERE)
2022 'Out Loud', Work Show Grow, (Visit HERE)
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
(Read on The Planet website HERE)
TALKS AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
2022 'Migration, Place Attachment and Gender' Talking Place: A Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester UK
2022 'Chemigrams, Crystalogram, and Soil Chromatographywith GuL Cevikoglu, Stig Marlon Weston, & Elizabeth Ransom'
Exp. 22 International Festival on Experimental Photography Conference, 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
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 Fast Forward The Manifesto: Activating Actions, Knowledge Exchange Fund, Assistant Researcher & Project Administrator, UCA, Farnham UK
2021-2022 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
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 - 2022 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
2014-2015 Ambassador, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, WA, USA,
OTHER
April 2021 - Aug 2022 Studio Manager & Community Lead, Work Show Grow
Nov 2020 - May 2021 Archive Assistant, Jean Wainwright Oral History and Andy Warhol Archive
