( Artist Statement )

Hannan Jones delves into the realms of hybridity, rhythm, and psychogeography in response to cultural and social migration. Central to her practice are questions of continuity and rupture, explored through analogue mediums, and at the intersections of sound, sculpture, installation, and moving image.


Jones' practice foregrounds personal and collective histories, departure points have drawn on Welsh and Algerian heritage, and considering how positionality continually affects how we relate to the past and see/become ourselves in the present. Previous projects have involved the retracing of free speech movements, the exploration of survival tactics and rituals, and examinations of strategies for navigating, occupying public spaces as ways to subvert economic and environmental precarity. Her most recent research has focused on the city of Marseille, which has become a central site of her work.

Sonically, Jones' work emerges through experimental, improvisational practices utilising sampling, electronics, musique concrète, and analogue archives. She employs layered audio materials to create alternate possibilities, reclaim parallel histories, and reimagine the connections between them. These processes are inspired by pioneering figures such as Nicolas Collins, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and Éliane Radigue. In 2023, Jones received an Oram Award, a platform that elevates the work and voices of women and gender non-conforming artists innovating in sound, music, and related technology.

Notable sonic presentations have taken place at events including Festival Parallèle at GMeM - Centre national de création musicale, Marseille; Caerleon Amphitheatre with Artes Mundi and the National Roman Legion Museum; Arts Council Wales – Amgueddfa Cymru; SAVVY Contemporary with Archive Sites, Berlin; New Radicalisms, Rotterdam; Counterflows, Glasgow; Tate Lates, Tate Modern; Cafe OTO, London; REWIRE Festival, The Hague; and the Glasgow Film Festival at Tramway for This Is Now: Film and Video after Punk.

Since 2020 Re-Imagining In Conversation has been an ongoing work alongside artist Shamica Ruddock. Together, they undertook a fellowship at Akademie Schloss Digital Solitude (DE) × Liquid Architecture (AU), working towards Re-Imagining In Conversation: A New Poetics, developed work with CCA Annex, Glasgow. They have contributed Speculation Is the Vehicle a text in dialogue to Un-Projects (AU), held duo exhibitions with Well Projects, Margate and Forma, London and they are current residents at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2024–2026). The collaboration continues to evolve through text, sound, installation and live performance.

In similar longterm collaborative pursuits, Jones has also released work under various aliases with Scottish sound engineer and musician Murray Collier. Most recently in 'A Line Drawn Downwards' (2025) a radiophonic composition commissioned by Radiophrenia, Glasgow with WORM Sound Studio, Rotterdam. The two have released on labels including Optimo Music, 12th Isle, Real Landscape, and Spritz Editions.

Jones also contributes sound design to artists’ moving image works and films, including In Praise of Slowness (2023), directed by Hicham Gardaf; Comfort (2023), directed by Daisy Smith; and BAFTA nominated The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing (2024), directed by Theo Panagopoulos. Her own filmography includes: Dear F, 2023, Working Knowledge of Ritual, 2023, and 16mm trilogy series A Spirit, a Deity, a Barbarian? Captive in the Subterranean, 2025, Cosmotechnic Templum , Templum Terrarium (re-adapting the spectacle in imperial debris), 2025, and in progress 'Body to Body Work' (2025 - ) and 'Hiraeth: Down Pandy Lane' (2024 - ). Screenings, include the London Short Film Festival; Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival; Selected 13 UK tour at Nottingham Contemporary, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Fabrica, Brighton, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, and the Royal College of Art, London; as well as the MENA Film Festival, Vancouver.

Holding a BA (Hons) in Sculpture and Environmental Art from the Glasgow School of Art, where she is a current visiting lecturer (2023–present). From 2020 to 2021, Jones was an Artist Associate at Open School East and is a proud autodidactic sound practitioner.

Hannan grew up on Whajduk Noongar Boodja, Western Australia, land that has never been ceded.

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