Information & About
Hannan Jones
FKA Hannan Bouchemla
b. Mandjoogoordap Noongar Boodja / Perth, Australia
She/Her
CONTACT
hannanjones@gmail.com
FKA Hannan Bouchemla
b. Mandjoogoordap Noongar Boodja / Perth, Australia
She/Her
CONTACT
hannanjones@gmail.com
Photo: Hicham Gardaf
BIO
As an interdisciplinary research-led artist, I delve deeply into concepts of hybridity, rhythms, and psycho-geography in response to cultural and social migration. I am of Berber Algerian and Welsh ancestry and raised on Binjerup Noongar Boodja in Australia. Practicing at the intersections of sound, sculpture, installation, moving-image, and print. At present, my thoughts are guided by writers such as Homi K. Bhabha, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, and Assia Djebar.
My practice is expansive,interdisciplinary and often collaborative, I have retraced free speech movements, explored survival tactics and rituals, as well as ways to move within and occupy public spaces, as strategies for subverting economic and environmental precarity. I have explored the edges of the Union Canal as a way of understanding its complex relationship to people and ecosystems by listening as a means of exploring multiplicity. Curator of the 2022 Artist Associate Programme, Channels, at Edinburgh Art Festival, Emmie McLuskey writes, ‘Using hydrophones as if she were taking its pulse…Through my work we are reminded that understanding takes time and that multiple positions for study are part of composition. Listening is a daily practice that needs continual care and attention.”
As a programmer, I have contributed to public programs such as the Dardishi Film Festival (2021); community events organised by the Transmission Gallery, where I served as a committee member (2021-22) and as a Artistic Director and Co-Producer for Peaks at Paper Mountain ARI (2018-2019).
Previous presentations and performances include CCA Annex (current); Cafe Oto (2023); Edinburgh Art Festival (2022); Well Projects, Margate (2022); Counterflows, Glasgow (2022); Sonica; Civic Room, Glasgow (2022); New Radicalisms, (A)WAKE, Rotterdam (2022); DADAA, Fremantle, Australia (2020); NTS Tate Lates, Tate Modern, London (2017); REWIRE, The Hague (2017); Sound Thought, CCA, Glasgow (2017); and; Gallery Unit, Glasgow International (2016).
I hold a BA (Hons) in Sculpture and Environmental Art from Glasgow School of Art and in 2020-21 I was an Artist Associate at Open School East.
CV HANNAN JONES
EDUCATION
2021 Node Centre for Curatorial Studies: Decolonizing Curatorial and Artistic Practices
2020/21 Open School East, Artist Associate Programme
2012 - 2016 Glasgow School of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art, Sculpture and Environmental Art
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2022 The Shift, Seeking Channels curated by Kris Lock [duo show with Shamica Ruddock] / Well Projects / Margate
2016 I OPEN SOMETIME [with Rachael Simpson] Gallery Unit, Glasgow International
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
Forthcoming Dear F….’ Little Pictures [In Post-Production] / GMAC Film / Glasgow
2023 Mascara Film Club / P/////AKT / Amsterdam
2022 Surface, Bounce and Cycles, Channels, Associate Artist Programme curated by Emmie McLuskey, Edinburgh Art Festival / Edinburgh
2022 New Horizons / Sonica 2022 / Glasgow
2022 Re-imagining In Conversation / CCA Annex
2022 Re-imagining In Conversation / Counterflows 2022 / Glasgow
2021 How to Lift Heavy, Nayland Rock Hotel supported by Margate Now / Margate
2019 No Fixed Address, DADAA x St. Pats Community Support Centre / Fremantle
2018 One Day to Play [video and performance with Claricia Parinussa] The Civic House / Glasgow
2018 Artists who make music, Musicians who make art, Queens Park Railway Club / Glasgow
2017 YOUR CONTENT IS HERE, Greencube.gallery / The Wrong / New Digital Art Biennale / Online
2017 Collective Care, [with Kate Davis] More Art Public Art Show / Melbourne
2017 Noel Counihan Commemorative Award, Counihan Gallery Brunswick / Melbourne
2017 Sound Thought [with Murray Collier], Centre for Contemporary Arts / Glasgow
SELECTED WORKSHOPS, CURATORIAL PRACTICES AND FACILITATION
Current Transmission Gallery, Committee Member / Glasgow
2021 Dardishi, Film Programmer / Online/ Glasgow
2020 DIT LEARN with Laure Prouvost [lead programmer]/ Open School East / Margate
2020 La Poupe, Anthea Hamilton x OSE, Project Coordinator [film and performance] / Margate
2020 WARRIOR/WARRIOR, GRADJOB, Invited artist talk and broadcast curation partnered with Clyde Built Radio
2019 Youth Arts Creative Facilitator at Impact Arts / Ayrshire
2018/9 PEAKS at Paper Mountain ARI for FRINGE WORLD Festival [Artistic Director/Co-Producer] / Perth
2018 Leonora District High School [Arts/Facilitator in Residence] / Goldfields, Rural Western Australia
2018 East Kalgoorlie Primary School [Arts/Facilitator in Residence]/ Goldfields, Rural Western Australia
2017 Djidi Djidi Aboriginal School, [Arts/Facilitator in Residence]/ Bunbury, Rural Western Australia
2014 -16 Gallery Unit & Unit, Founder, Co-Curator and Co-Ordinator, The Savoy Centre / Glasgow
2014 SEA IN RED, 695 Gallery, Queens Cross Housing Association / Glasgow
2014 Barlinnie HMP Prison, Contemporary Art Tutor / Glasgow
PRINT AND PUBLISHED MATTER
Forthcoming re/tell atlas, cassette tape, self release
2021 How to Lift Heavy / contributor / guided by Sepake Anigama / Open School East
2020 The Paper / contributor / Good Press
2019 VHS Tracking Zine / Review & Artwork / Perth
2019 WEAPONISE YOUR SOUND, LP Vinyl, Independent Womens Day curated by Kristina McCormack / Optimo Music
2017 Newsletter: Volume II: a collaborative archive of idea fragment, contributor / Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
2016 Pussy Mothers, The Number 1 EP, 12in Vinyl / Optimo Music
2016 Beg, Borrow and Steal collaboration with Rachael Simpson / Self Published
2015 ET DIEU CREA LA FEMME edited by Tine Bek / Good Press
RESIDENCIES
2021 ‘In conversation’ with Shamica Ruddock at CCA / Glasgow
2018 Subiaco Theatre Festival x Perth Theatre Trust / Subiaco
2017 Perth International Arts Festival Artist Lab as part of 2017’s festival with Artistic Director Wendy Martin / Perth
AWARDED GRANTS
2022/23 VACMA
2021/22 CCA ANNEX X A/C Projects. Glasgow
2021 COVID-19 Composer Grant, Sound and Music UK
2021 Arts Council England, Develop Your Creative Practice
2021 Sound and Music, Composer Grant
2020/21 Ian Potter Cultural Foundation
2020 Western Australia’s Department of Local Govenment Sport and Cultural Industries
Full CV on request
As an interdisciplinary research-led artist, I delve deeply into concepts of hybridity, rhythms, and psycho-geography in response to cultural and social migration. I am of Berber Algerian and Welsh ancestry and raised on Binjerup Noongar Boodja in Australia. Practicing at the intersections of sound, sculpture, installation, moving-image, and print. At present, my thoughts are guided by writers such as Homi K. Bhabha, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, and Assia Djebar.
My practice is expansive,interdisciplinary and often collaborative, I have retraced free speech movements, explored survival tactics and rituals, as well as ways to move within and occupy public spaces, as strategies for subverting economic and environmental precarity. I have explored the edges of the Union Canal as a way of understanding its complex relationship to people and ecosystems by listening as a means of exploring multiplicity. Curator of the 2022 Artist Associate Programme, Channels, at Edinburgh Art Festival, Emmie McLuskey writes, ‘Using hydrophones as if she were taking its pulse…Through my work we are reminded that understanding takes time and that multiple positions for study are part of composition. Listening is a daily practice that needs continual care and attention.”
As a programmer, I have contributed to public programs such as the Dardishi Film Festival (2021); community events organised by the Transmission Gallery, where I served as a committee member (2021-22) and as a Artistic Director and Co-Producer for Peaks at Paper Mountain ARI (2018-2019).
Previous presentations and performances include CCA Annex (current); Cafe Oto (2023); Edinburgh Art Festival (2022); Well Projects, Margate (2022); Counterflows, Glasgow (2022); Sonica; Civic Room, Glasgow (2022); New Radicalisms, (A)WAKE, Rotterdam (2022); DADAA, Fremantle, Australia (2020); NTS Tate Lates, Tate Modern, London (2017); REWIRE, The Hague (2017); Sound Thought, CCA, Glasgow (2017); and; Gallery Unit, Glasgow International (2016).
I hold a BA (Hons) in Sculpture and Environmental Art from Glasgow School of Art and in 2020-21 I was an Artist Associate at Open School East.
CV HANNAN JONES
EDUCATION
2021 Node Centre for Curatorial Studies: Decolonizing Curatorial and Artistic Practices
2020/21 Open School East, Artist Associate Programme
2012 - 2016 Glasgow School of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art, Sculpture and Environmental Art
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2022 The Shift, Seeking Channels curated by Kris Lock [duo show with Shamica Ruddock] / Well Projects / Margate
2016 I OPEN SOMETIME [with Rachael Simpson] Gallery Unit, Glasgow International
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
Forthcoming Dear F….’ Little Pictures [In Post-Production] / GMAC Film / Glasgow
2023 Mascara Film Club / P/////AKT / Amsterdam
2022 Surface, Bounce and Cycles, Channels, Associate Artist Programme curated by Emmie McLuskey, Edinburgh Art Festival / Edinburgh
2022 New Horizons / Sonica 2022 / Glasgow
2022 Re-imagining In Conversation / CCA Annex
2022 Re-imagining In Conversation / Counterflows 2022 / Glasgow
2021 How to Lift Heavy, Nayland Rock Hotel supported by Margate Now / Margate
2019 No Fixed Address, DADAA x St. Pats Community Support Centre / Fremantle
2018 One Day to Play [video and performance with Claricia Parinussa] The Civic House / Glasgow
2018 Artists who make music, Musicians who make art, Queens Park Railway Club / Glasgow
2017 YOUR CONTENT IS HERE, Greencube.gallery / The Wrong / New Digital Art Biennale / Online
2017 Collective Care, [with Kate Davis] More Art Public Art Show / Melbourne
2017 Noel Counihan Commemorative Award, Counihan Gallery Brunswick / Melbourne
2017 Sound Thought [with Murray Collier], Centre for Contemporary Arts / Glasgow
SELECTED WORKSHOPS, CURATORIAL PRACTICES AND FACILITATION
Current Transmission Gallery, Committee Member / Glasgow
2021 Dardishi, Film Programmer / Online/ Glasgow
2020 DIT LEARN with Laure Prouvost [lead programmer]/ Open School East / Margate
2020 La Poupe, Anthea Hamilton x OSE, Project Coordinator [film and performance] / Margate
2020 WARRIOR/WARRIOR, GRADJOB, Invited artist talk and broadcast curation partnered with Clyde Built Radio
2019 Youth Arts Creative Facilitator at Impact Arts / Ayrshire
2018/9 PEAKS at Paper Mountain ARI for FRINGE WORLD Festival [Artistic Director/Co-Producer] / Perth
2018 Leonora District High School [Arts/Facilitator in Residence] / Goldfields, Rural Western Australia
2018 East Kalgoorlie Primary School [Arts/Facilitator in Residence]/ Goldfields, Rural Western Australia
2017 Djidi Djidi Aboriginal School, [Arts/Facilitator in Residence]/ Bunbury, Rural Western Australia
2014 -16 Gallery Unit & Unit, Founder, Co-Curator and Co-Ordinator, The Savoy Centre / Glasgow
2014 SEA IN RED, 695 Gallery, Queens Cross Housing Association / Glasgow
2014 Barlinnie HMP Prison, Contemporary Art Tutor / Glasgow
PRINT AND PUBLISHED MATTER
Forthcoming re/tell atlas, cassette tape, self release
2021 How to Lift Heavy / contributor / guided by Sepake Anigama / Open School East
2020 The Paper / contributor / Good Press
2019 VHS Tracking Zine / Review & Artwork / Perth
2019 WEAPONISE YOUR SOUND, LP Vinyl, Independent Womens Day curated by Kristina McCormack / Optimo Music
2017 Newsletter: Volume II: a collaborative archive of idea fragment, contributor / Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
2016 Pussy Mothers, The Number 1 EP, 12in Vinyl / Optimo Music
2016 Beg, Borrow and Steal collaboration with Rachael Simpson / Self Published
2015 ET DIEU CREA LA FEMME edited by Tine Bek / Good Press
RESIDENCIES
2021 ‘In conversation’ with Shamica Ruddock at CCA / Glasgow
2018 Subiaco Theatre Festival x Perth Theatre Trust / Subiaco
2017 Perth International Arts Festival Artist Lab as part of 2017’s festival with Artistic Director Wendy Martin / Perth
AWARDED GRANTS
2022/23 VACMA
2021/22 CCA ANNEX X A/C Projects. Glasgow
2021 COVID-19 Composer Grant, Sound and Music UK
2021 Arts Council England, Develop Your Creative Practice
2021 Sound and Music, Composer Grant
2020/21 Ian Potter Cultural Foundation
2020 Western Australia’s Department of Local Govenment Sport and Cultural Industries
Full CV on request