As a former geologist with a PhD in palaeoclimatology, I’ve spent many years researching past greenhouse climates as a potential analogue for future, anthropogenic climate change. My remit then, was to study the subsurface milieu – the stratifications, organisms, processes and relationships – and now as an artist, I find myself doing exactly the same thing.
My creative practice is a form of environmental and ecological research; I investigate how landscapes have been shaped and how they respond to human influence. My work combines studio-based construction with outdoor experimentation in order to create serendipitous and evocative imagery. Much of my photography is characterised by tactile transformative processes, such as the folding, fragmentation and manipulation of physical prints. I also incorporate many natural elements – sunlight, trees, plants, rivers, rocks and waves – into my artworks.
In essence, my photographic practice creates a mechanism through which I can explore the landscape and examine the interconnections between humans, environment and natural processes.
Group exhibitions
2022 OPEN Eco, Photo Fringe, Worthing Seafront, UK
2022 Yearbook 2022, Shutter Hub, online
2022 Your Body Belongs to You, Festival Pil’Ours, France
2021 F-Stop, Issue #109 Landscape, online
2021 Tāctus, 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival, online
2021 Yearbook 2021, Shutter Hub, online
2021 Four Degrees: Eco-Anxiety and Climate Change, Strange Fire Collective, online
2020 AOP Student Awards, online
2019 Bath Open Art Prize, 44AD Artspace, Bath, UK
2018 Osmosis, The Island, Bristol, UK
2018 Showcase, OXO gallery, London, UK
Awards & Shortlists
2022 Shortlisted for IPE 164, RPS
2021 Winner of PRC Award, Shutter Hub Yearbook 2021
2021 Shortlisted for The Light of Day project, Artquest
2020 Gold winner of AOP Student Awards, Places/Moving image
2019 Shortlisted for Bath Open Art Prize
Online publications
2022 Close up: Elizabeth Woodger – Diagenesis, Shutter Hub feature
2022 Source Graduate Photography Online 2022
2022 Photopocene Podcast, episode 27
2021 Exhibition review, Not many people here yet, Photomonitor
2020 Instagram takeover, Real Photography Company
Print publications
2022 Featured in Yearbook 2022, Shutter Hub
2022 Featured in article Brave. Bold. Beautiful., RPS Journal, v. 162(4), p.406
2022 Geological aesthetics, self published zine
2022 Commissioned essay, Reclaiming analogue photography, Fabric of Photography
2022 Featured in Yearbook 2021, Shutter Hub
2020 Featured in 36th AOP Awards Book, p.253
Residencies & Mentorships
2022 Selected for TRACE mentorship programme
2019 Selected for Dartmoor Summer School of Photography
Education
2012–2022 BA (Hons) Photography, OCA, UK
2007 PhD Palaeoclimatology, University of Plymouth, UK
2003 MSc Palaeobiology, University of Bristol, UK
2002 BSc (Hons) Geology (1st class), Cardiff University, UK
Elizabeth Woodger 
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