Hannah Rickards (born 1979) is a British conceptual sound artist. She has won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, the

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in Visual and Performing Arts and the Nigel Greenwood Art Prize.

Life and work

Rickards was born in 1979 in

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, London. She studied at

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, 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

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who said they could hear the

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. During a solo show at

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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

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before it toured to the

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, Italy. Rickards' 2014 exhibition at

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was accompanied by a

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examining her artistic practice and with an introduction by Paul Hobson. After winning the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2015, Rickards took a two year

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from teaching at Central Saint Martins, during which time she worked on a new piece at the

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, in

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, and undertook research trips to the

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Publications

*''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.'' Oxford: Modern Art Oxford, 2014. By Paul Hobson, Sally Shaw, Isla Leaver-Yap, Rickards, and

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. *''Grey light. Left and right back, high up, two small windows.'' Sternberg/Fogo Island Arts, 2016. By Melissa Gronlund, Will Holder, Alexandra McIntosh,

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, and Rickards.

Awards

*2009: Max Mara Art Prize for Women *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

References

External links

*
Hannah Rickards discusses "Thunder" and other works
on

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