Hannah Rickards

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.{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Jonathan |date=30 September 2011 |title=Saint Martins emerges blinking in bright new home. But is it art? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/sep/30/saint-martins-kings-cross-premises |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723130633/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/sep/30/saint-martins-kings-cross-premises |archive-date=23 July 2023 |accessdate=1 September 2019 |newspaper=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077}}{{cite web |last1= |date= |title=UAL Staff Researchers: Hannah Rickards |url=https://www.arts.ac.uk/research/ual-staff-researchers/hannah-rickards |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609111716/https://www.arts.ac.uk/research/ual-staff-researchers/hannah-rickards |archive-date=9 June 2019 |accessdate=1 September 2019 |website=University of the Arts London}}{{Cite web |last=Martins |first=Central Saint |date=2019-01-28 |title=Hannah Rickards on her work and winning the Philip Leverhulme Prize |url=https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/central-saint-martins/stories/hannah-rickards-on-her-work-and-winning-the-philip-leverhulme-prize |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Central Saint Martins |language=en}}

Rickards is a conceptual sound artist. In 2007, Rickards interviewed people from Alaska who said they could hear the aurora borealis.{{Cite news |date=1 April 2008 |title=Hannah Rickards |url=https://www.frieze.com/article/hannah-rickards |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607183855/https://www.frieze.com/article/hannah-rickards |archive-date=7 June 2023 |access-date=31 January 2024 |work=Frieze |language=en |issue=114 |issn=0962-0672}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Hannah Rickard Major New Exhibition Announced For Modern Art Oxford |url=https://artlyst.com/news/hannah-rickard-major-new-exhibition-announced-for-modern-art-oxford/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Artlyst |language=en-GB}}

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.

• 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 Adam Chodzko.
• Grey light. Left and right back, high up, two small windows. Sternberg/Fogo Island Arts, 2016. By Melissa Gronlund, Will Holder, Alexandra McIntosh, Nicolaus Schafhausen, and Rickards.

• 2009: Max Mara Art Prize for Women{{cite web |last=Duguid |first=Hannah |date=28 August 2009 |title=Women at work: As the older generation of YBAs grows up, a new set of female creators is taking over |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/women-at-work-as-the-older-generation-of-ybas-grows-up-a-new-set-of-female-creators-is-taking-over-1777991.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230823044154/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/women-at-work-as-the-older-generation-of-ybas-grows-up-a-new-set-of-female-creators-is-taking-over-1777991.html |archive-date=23 August 2023 |accessdate=1 September 2019 |website=The Independent}}{{cite news |last1=Thorpe |first1=Vanessa |date=20 October 2007 |title=Five women vie to be the next Emin |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/oct/21/artnews.art |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131222627/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/oct/21/artnews.art |archive-date=31 January 2024 |accessdate=1 September 2019 |newspaper=The Observer |issn=0029-7712}}
• 2015: Philip Leverhulme Prize in Visual and Performing Arts{{cite web |title=Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2015 - Visual and Performing Arts |url=https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/philip-leverhulme-prizes-2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901120805/https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/philip-leverhulme-prizes-2015 |archive-date=1 September 2019 |accessdate=1 September 2019 |website=Philip Leverhulme Prize}}
• 2018: Nigel Greenwood Art Prize{{Cite web |title=Hannah Rickards wins Nigel Greenwood Art Prize, Ima-Abasi Okon gets research prize |url=https://artreview.com/new-26-march-18-hannah-rickards-nigel-greenwood-art-prize-ima-abasi-okon/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Art Review |language=en}}

• MaxMara Art Prize for Women: Hannah Rickards: No, there was no red, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2009{{cite web |title=MaxMara Art Prize for Women - Hannah Rickards: No, there was no red |url=https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/maxmara-art-prize-for-women-hannah-rickards/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927154614/https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/maxmara-art-prize-for-women-hannah-rickards/ |archive-date=27 September 2023 |accessdate=1 September 2019 |website=Whitechapel Gallery}}
• 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{{cite web |date=2014 |title=Hannah Rickards: 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. |url=https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/to-enable-me-to-fix-my-attention-on-any-one-of-these-symbols-i-was-to-imagine-that-i-was-looking-at |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131231413/https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/to-enable-me-to-fix-my-attention-on-any-one-of-these-symbols-i-was-to-imagine-that-i-was-looking-at |archive-date=31 January 2024 |accessdate=31 January 2024 |website=Modern Art Oxford}}
• Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England, 2016{{cite news |last1=Cumming |first1=Laura |date=28 August 2016 |title=It’s Me to the World review – you may have seen it here first |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/aug/28/modern-art-oxford-its-me-to-the-world-50th-review-richard-long-marina-abramovic |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221003094934/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/aug/28/modern-art-oxford-its-me-to-the-world-50th-review-richard-long-marina-abramovic |archive-date=3 October 2022 |accessdate=1 September 2019 |newspaper=The Observer |issn=0029-7712}}{{cite news |last1=Sherwin |first1=Skye |last2=Clark |first2=Robert |date=21 February 2014 |title=Letizia Battaglia, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jorn Ebner: the week's art shows in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/feb/21/battaglia-ebner-exhibitions-gallery |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128101318/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/feb/21/battaglia-ebner-exhibitions-gallery |archive-date=28 January 2022 |accessdate=1 September 2019 |newspaper=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077}}
• One can make out the surface only by placing any dark-coloured object on the ground, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada, 2018-2019{{Cite web |date=2018-09-24 |title=Hannah Rickards |url=https://thepolygon.ca/exhibition/hannah-rickards/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=The Polygon Gallery |language=en-US}}

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• {{Official website|www.hannahrickards.info}}
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIR8txLAVpE Hannah Rickards discusses "Thunder" and other works] on YouTube posted February 23, 2016 Modern Art Oxford

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