Women Alternative Photography Group Seminar and Private View
Women Alternative Photography Group is excited to present a series of inspiring artist talks in this free in-person seminar and private view
Date and time
Location
Folkestone
Folkestone Folkestone United KingdomAbout this event
- 2 hours
I am thrilled to invite you to the Women Alternative Photography Groups very first in-person event at the Brewery Tap Gallery UCA Project Space in Folkestone, UK.
This seminar and private view will bring together three incredible women using alternative photographic processes within their creative practice. Interrogating migration, psychogeography, and sustainable photographic processes this seminar will introduce the work of Founder of the London Alternative Photography Collective Melanie King, Artist and Curator Ky Lewis, and Director and Founder of WAPG Elizabeth Ransom. This seminar will be an opportunity to celebrate women working with experimental photographic methods in unique and innovative ways.
This seminar coincides with the opening of the exhibition Homesick by Elizabeth Ransom at the Brewery Tap Gallery. Following the seminar there will be a private view with free drinks which you are invited to join to socialise with the WAPG community.
Please note there is limited seating for the seminar so tickets are required. If you find you can not attend on the day please cancel your ticket through eventbrite. Thank you.
Biographies:
Melanie King is a working class artist and curator, originally from Manchester, UK, now based in Kent, UK. She is co-Director of super/collider, Lumen Studios and founder of the London Alternative Photography Collective. Melanie is Lecturer In Photography at Canterbury Christ Church University, and a practice-based PhD Candidate at the Royal College of Art. She is the Interim Chair of the Royal College of Art, Working Class Collective. She is represented by the Land Art Agency. Melanie is interested in the relationship between the environment, photography and materiality.
Ky Lewis is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator based in South London with a practice centred on experimental alt photography and printmaking. She is a curator and workshop facilitator teaching in a peripatetic way. Her interests are in psychogeography, the intersection of connection human to environment, landscape, history and cycles of life currently with a strong leaning toward environmental activism especially in the urban setting concerning the urban forest.
Elizabeth Ransom is an artist, researcher and curator based between the Pacific Northwest and the South of England. She is the Founder and Director of Women Alternative Photography Group and a PhD candidate at the University for the Creative Arts (2019-2024). As an artist and researcher, Elizabeth takes from her own lived experiences of migration to explore homesickness and transnationality. Her 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.
@elizabethransom
www.elizabethransom.com
Location Information:
The Brewery Tap UCA Project Space is a research hub, exhibition and project space in the Creative Quarter of Folkestone, Kent.
Address: Brewery Tap Gallery, 53 Tontine St, Folkestone CT20 1JR
There is parking available on the road for one hour and various pay to park car parks within walking distance to the gallery.
There is disabled access and welfare facilities. Guide dogs, hearing dogs and registered assistance dogs are welcome.
Image Credit: Melanie King. Night sky, Eagles Nest, 2022. Silver Gelatin Photograph.