Hannah Rickards


Hannah Rickards is a British conceptual sound artist. She has won the Max Mara [Art Prize for Women], the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Visual and Performing Arts and the Nigel Greenwood Art Prize.

Life and work

Rickards was born in 1979 in Hammersmith, London. She studied at Central Saint Martins, graduating in 2002. In 2007, she returned to teach there as a lecturer in Fine Art.
Rickards is a conceptual sound artist. In 2007, Rickards interviewed people from Alaska who said they could hear the aurora borealis. During a solo show at The Showroom gallery in Marylebone, London, she displayed transcripts from her interviews on three monitors in red, green and blue.
Rickards' 2009 two-screen film work No, there was no red, was displayed at the Whitechapel Gallery before it toured to the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Rickards' 2014 exhibition at Modern Art Oxford was accompanied by a monograph examining her artistic practice and with an introduction by Paul Hobson.
After winning the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2015, Rickards took a two year sabbatical from teaching at Central Saint Martins, during which time she worked on a new piece at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, in Troy, New York, and undertook research trips to the Banff [Centre for Arts and Creativity] in Banff, Alberta.

Publications