Newcastle University

Hannah Rickards explores the relationship between natural phenomena and our experience of them, often through a process of translation in which acts of nature are rendered in to sounds, texts, spoken word, gestures and installations. Her work shifts between modes of perception and representation including the linguistic, the visual, the natural and the artificial.

Rickards’ works have explored the verbal descriptions of a sound heard by some as accompanying the northern lights (...a legend, it, it sounds like a legend..., 2007), and words and gestures used to describe images generated by lake mirages (No, there was no red. 2009). In Thunder (2005), working with composer David Murphy, Rickards extended a single thunderclap from eight seconds to seven minutes. Murphy then transcribed the seven-minute sound in to a score for six instruments, which was then recorded and re-compressed to eight seconds.

Rickards has had solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2009), The Showroom, London (2007), and Artspeak in Vancouver (2010), and has shown in group exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2009), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2009), and Witte de With, Rotterdam (2006).She was the recipient of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in conjunction with the Whitechapel (2007-2009)

http://ica.org.uk/17440/Artists/Hannah-Rickards.html

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions

http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/hannah_rickards/