Hannah Rickards

Hannah Rickards (born 1979) 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.

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.

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. 2015: Philip Leverhulme Prize in Visual and Performing Arts 2018: Nigel Greenwood Art Prize

Exhibitions MaxMara Art Prize for Women: Hannah Rickards: No, there was no red, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2009 To enable me to fix my attention on any one of these symbols I was to imagine that I was looking at the colours as I might see them on a moving picture screen., Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England, 2014 Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England, 2016 One can make out the surface only by placing any dark-coloured object on the ground, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada, 2018-2019