Hannan Jones

Hannan Jones works and lives in Glasgow, Scotland.

Hannan Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose current research expands hybridity, language, and rhythms associated with cultural and social migration, and psychogeography. Practicing at the intersections of sculpture, sound, moving-image and performance her intention is to find togetherness, even if temporary. Underpinning her practice is an evolution of sound, Hannan works with electronics, music concrete, improvisation and analogue recordings. Using samples and layering of audio material, she reclaims parallel histories, and reimagines connections between them. In the past, Hannan Jones has embarked on projects that involve retracing free speech movements, exploring survival tactics and rituals, as well as examining ways to navigate and occupy public spaces as strategies for subverting economic and environmental precarity. Additionally, exploring the edges of the Glasgow and Edinburgh’s Union Canal, employing listening as a means to comprehend its intricate relationship with people and ecosystems, thus embracing multiplicity. Emmie McLuskey, the Curator of the Commissions Programme at Channels, Edinburgh Art Festival observed that she was “using hydrophones as if she were taking its pulse”.

Hannan Jones is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art’s Sculpture and Environmental Art department, often collaborating and working collectively Hannan has held several key roles in the arts community across the UK, including being an Associate Artist at Open School East (2020-21), a committee member of Transmission Gallery (2021-22), and recently a invited co-programmer for LUX Scotland, as part of the artist moving image programme ’Intentional Pauses (and Unforeseen Gaps)’ at Dundee Contemporary Arts. In 2023, she became a receipent of the Oram Awards, a platform to elevate the work and voices of women and gender non-conforming artists innovating in sound, music and related technology.