13 June 2024 | 10:30 am - 6 pm
UCA Doctoral College, Rochester House St George’s Place, Canterbury CT1 1UT I am so excited to announce that I have been selected to share my PhD research at the upcoming PhD Student Conference in Canterbury. I will be presenting my paper titled Migrant Women: Stories of Movement which inserts women’s voices into discourse surrounding transnationality as well as investigating how women’s experiences of migration can be uniquely transcribed using alternative photographic processes such as film soup, soil chromatography, and photograms. Examples are drawn from four case studies including the work of María Martínez-Cañas, Odette England, Izabela Pluta, and Dafna Talmor. From more specific themes of place attachment, memory, and constructed landscapes these artists demonstrate the lived experience of migrant women. The conference will be held in the Gallery on level one at the Doctoral College on 13 June 2024.
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On the 28 May 2024 the first ever Women Alternative Photography Group Seminar took place in person at the Brewery Tap Gallery UCA Project Space in Folkestone. It was my absolute pleasure to host photographic artists Melanie King and Ky Lewis who shared their art practice and research with us in a series of artist talks. I also shared my research on homesickness followed by a private view of the Homesick exhibition. On the 28 May 2024 Homesick opened at the Brewery Tap Gallery UCA Project Space in Folkestone. This solo exhibition showcases the series Homesick where I use the film soup process and hand written letters to investigate homesickness. I worked with ten migrant women from all over the world who selected a liquid that reminded them of a place they have called home. I then took a roll of 35mm colour film and soaked the film in the selected liquid for one hour for every day that it had been since they had returned to their home. This project was created during the COVID-19 pandemic when borders were closed and travel was at a standstill. For many this was the first time they had not be able to travel back home to visit friends and family exacerbating feelings of homesickness.
The exhibition closes tomorrow 1 June 2024. On the 20 March 2024 I joined researchers Eiji Yasuhara (University of Kent), Sarah Moody (UCA), and Louise Wigglesworth (University of Kent) on the Place and Space Panel as part of the Post Graduate Humanities Research Salon hosted by the University of Kent. I shared my paper titled Place Attachment and Soil Chromatography which investigated the use of the soil chromatography process in my own artistic practice to visualise the lived experience of place attachment.
On the 8 May 2024 I had the pleasure of presenting alongside Anna Fox at the AHRC IAA SE Regional Research with Impact Event in Brighton. This conference brought together researchers from all over the South East of England to share their incredible and inspiring projects. Anna and I talked about Fast Forward: Women in Photography particularly focusing on the research that has come out of the Manifesto and Manifesto Report. It was such a joy to meet up with colleagues from the University for the Creative Arts and meet fellow researchers doing such inspiring work.
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Elizabeth RansomPhd Candidate at UCA, Instructor at Western Washington University and Photographic Center Northwest, and Visual Artist working with Alternative Photographic Practices. Archives
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