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Hannan Jones & Shamica Ruddock

Hannan Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans sculpture, sound, moving-image and performance. Her current research expands hybridity, language, and rhythms associated with cultural and social migration, and psycho-geography. Using samples and layering of audio material, she reclaims parallel histories, and reimagines connections between them. Recent projects include: Relay (with Samir Kennedy), The Common Guild, Glasgow; A Frontier in Depth | Perspective(s), Artes Mundi, National Roman Legion Museum and Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, Caerleon; and The Site of Sound | Like Spring, I will be many, Triangle-Asterides, Marseille (all 2025). She has been in residence at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire since 2024, and in 2025, she was also in residence at WORM Sound Studio, Rotterdam, commissioned by Radiophrenia, and Triangle-Asterides, Marseille supported by Glasgow Sculpture Studios and CCA, Glasgow. In 2023, she became a recipient 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.

Shamica Ruddock is an artist-composer working across film, installations and live performance. Her experiments in sound are informed by a core investment in the sonic as a site for knowledge production, with narrative, allegory and the linguistic function of drum language as core departure points.

Recent projects include: Palimpsests & Epithets, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taiwan and Skēnē, Malmö; A Reverberant Shadow, Post-National Digital Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (all 2024); Deciphering a Broken Syntax, South London Gallery; and Something More Than Masquerade, Make Film History x BBC Archive at Bertha DocHouse, London (both 2022). In 2021, she was a British Library Eccles Centre Visiting Fellow researching Maroon sound cultures and in 2023 Ruddock was selected as an awardee of the second edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award. Recent residencies have included Amant Foundation, New York (2023), Somerset House, London (2024) and Wysing Arts Centre (2024 - present).

Together, Jones and Ruddock have performed widely for Counterflows Festival, Glasgow; Nottingham Contemporary; Oscillations Festival curated by QO2, Brussels; Archive Books x Savvy Contemporary, Berlin; Cafe OTO, London; Madeira Dig, Portugal; Silent-Green, Berlin and La Chunky, Glasgow. They have held residencies with Wysing Art Centre, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart in partnership with Liquid Architecture, Melbourne; Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, and CCA Annex where they published their ongoing project Reimagining in Conversation as an online audio-research-essay in conjunction with Triangle Studios. In addition the duo’s text Speculation is the Vehicle has been published in Australian publication, Un-Projects and Seeking Channels, an anthology published by Well Projects, Margate.

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Hannan Jones & Shamica Ruddock

Hannan Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans sculpture, sound, moving-image and performance. Her current research expands hybridity, language, and rhythms associated with cultural and social migration, and psycho-geography. Using samples and layering of audio material, she reclaims parallel histories, and reimagines connections between them. Recent projects include: Relay (with Samir Kennedy), The Common Guild, Glasgow; A Frontier in Depth | Perspective(s), Artes Mundi, National Roman Legion Museum and Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, Caerleon; and The Site of Sound | Like Spring, I will be many, Triangle-Asterides, Marseille (all 2025). She has been in residence at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire since 2024, and in 2025, she was also in residence at WORM Sound Studio, Rotterdam, commissioned by Radiophrenia, and Triangle-Asterides, Marseille supported by Glasgow Sculpture Studios and CCA, Glasgow. In 2023, she became a recipient 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.

Shamica Ruddock is an artist-composer working across film, installations and live performance. Her experiments in sound are informed by a core investment in the sonic as a site for knowledge production, with narrative, allegory and the linguistic function of drum language as core departure points.

Recent projects include: Palimpsests & Epithets, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taiwan and Skēnē, Malmö; A Reverberant Shadow, Post-National Digital Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (all 2024); Deciphering a Broken Syntax, South London Gallery; and Something More Than Masquerade, Make Film History x BBC Archive at Bertha DocHouse, London (both 2022). In 2021, she was a British Library Eccles Centre Visiting Fellow researching Maroon sound cultures and in 2023 Ruddock was selected as an awardee of the second edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award. Recent residencies have included Amant Foundation, New York (2023), Somerset House, London (2024) and Wysing Arts Centre (2024 - present).

Together, Jones and Ruddock have performed widely for Counterflows Festival, Glasgow; Nottingham Contemporary; Oscillations Festival curated by QO2, Brussels; Archive Books x Savvy Contemporary, Berlin; Cafe OTO, London; Madeira Dig, Portugal; Silent-Green, Berlin and La Chunky, Glasgow. They have held residencies with Wysing Art Centre, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart in partnership with Liquid Architecture, Melbourne; Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, and CCA Annex where they published their ongoing project Reimagining in Conversation as an online audio-research-essay in conjunction with Triangle Studios. In addition the duo’s text Speculation is the Vehicle has been published in Australian publication, Un-Projects and Seeking Channels, an anthology published by Well Projects, Margate.