Hannan Jones (FKA Hannan Bouchemla) is born on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja in Western Australia, on unceded land. At present she is living and working between Glasgow, Scotland and Marseille, France.
Jones works across sound, film, installation, sculpture and performance, engaging with hybridity, rhythm and psychogeography in relation to cultural and social migration. Her practice is shaped by questions of continuity and rupture, often working through analogue processes at the intersections of sound, moving image and installation.
Projects trace free speech movements, survival tactics and ritual practices, archeo-acoustics, alongside embodied strategies for navigating public space under conditions of economic and environmental precarity. Her approach is often collaborative, with an emphasis on process and experimentation.
Sonically, Jones is an autodidactic practitioner who works with synethiszers, sampling, electronics,and musique concrète techniques to construct layered, associative audio forms that reframe fragmented histories. In 2023, she recieved an Oram Award which recognises women and gender diverse artists who are innovators in the fields of music, sound and related technologies in honour of the BBC Workshop’s Daphne Oram.
She has presented works at Triangle-Astérides (Marseille), Counterflows (Glasgow), The Common Guild (Glasgow), GMeM – Centre national de création musicale (Marseille), London Short Film Festival, Artes Mundi in partnership with the National Roman Legion Museum, Amgueddfa Cymru and Arts Council Wales (Wales), Wysing Arts Centre (Cambridgeshire), Somerset House (London) and Forma (London), Glasgow International, Tate Modern (London), REWIRE Festival (The Hague), Cafe OTO (London), SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin), and Edinburgh Art Festival.
Jones is a Visiting Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art (2023–present) and is a freelance sound-designer for artist-moving image and experimental films. Her sound-design and compositional contributions feature in works that have received awards and nominations at IDFA, Sundance, BAFTA, BAFTA Scotland, the European Film Awards, and the Swedenborg Film Festival, as well as screenings and presentations at the Berlinale, MAST Foundation and e-flux.
Selected CV
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026
in the guise of commonplace, with The Camelia Committee, Market Gallery, Glasgow International, Glasgow
Strike | The Mark Feeds the Score | Surface as Notation, with Shamica Ruddock, Wysing Arts Centre / Forma / Knotenpunkt, UK
Cosmotechnic Templum, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland
2025
A Frontier in Depth, Artes Mundi, Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales / Arts Council of Wales, National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon
The Site of Sound, Like Spring, I Will Be Many, Triangle-Astérides, Marseille
Dear F, London Short Film Festival, Curzon Soho, London
pass shadow, whisper shade, Satellites, Collective, Edinburgh
2024
Foresight & Fiction, Goolugatup Heathcote, Boorloo, Western Australia
How Do We Hold On?, Memory in Motion, Manchester Museum
ISCA, The Conch, South London Gallery, London
Dear F, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland
2023
Dear F, Videoclub / FLAMIN UK Screening Tour — Royal College of Art, Fabrica, John Hansard Gallery, CCA Glasgow and Nottingham Contemporary
Working Knowledge of Ritual, Garden Utopias, kīmia collective, Casablanca
Working Knowledge of Ritual, Mascara Film Club, P/////AKT, Amsterdam
The Site of Sound, Rupture, Rapture, 16NSt × Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow
2022
The Shift, with Shamica Ruddock, Well Projects, Margate
Surface, Bounce & Cycles, Edinburgh Art Festival
FILMOGRAPHY
2026
safe keeping, 16mm to digital, 10:43
2025
A Frontier in Depth, three-part film trilogy:
A Spirit, a Deity, a Barbarian? Captive in the subterranean, 16mm to digital, 10:10
Cosmotechnic Templum, 16mm to digital, 6:28
Templum Terrarium, 16mm / HD, 18:31
2023
Dear F, 16mm to digital, 6:30
Working Knowledge of Ritual, Super 8 to digital, 6:15
SELECTED RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2026
GMEM Centre national de création musicale Residency, Marseille
Creative Scotland Open Fund
The Hope Scott Trust
2024–26
Artist in Residence, with Shamica Ruddock, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire
2025
FLUXUS Laureate, British Council France / Institut français / French Ministry of Culture
Triangle-Astérides, Marseille
A-N Artist Bursary
2023
Algorithmic Poetry Fellowship, Akademie Schloss / Liquid Architecture
Creative Australia Grant
ORAM Award, PRS Foundation / Radiophonic Institute
2021
Sound and Music Composer Grant
Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England
SELECTED CURATORIAL & TEACHING
2023–present
Visiting Lecturer, Sculpture and Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art
2026
symptoms, Co-programmer, Market Gallery, Glasgow
2025
Unruly Materialities and Counter-Geographies, Performance Lecture, University of Western Australia
2024
Intentional Pauses (and Unforeseen Gaps), Co-programmer, LUX Moving Image Programme, Dundee Contemporary Arts
2023–24
Mixed Signals / Collective Tuning, Guest Lead Artist, Rhubaba Choir, Edinburgh
2023
Second Sights and Infrared Sprites, Associate Curator, CineAstra / Glasgow Women’s Library
Sound Arts Guest Lecture, CRiSAP, London College of Communication
2021–22
Committee Member, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2026
Solo, Counterflows, The Art School, Glasgow
Solo, Diasporas Now, South London Gallery, London
Relay, with Samir Kennedy, Somerset House, London
Relay, with Samir Kennedy, Parallèle Festival / GMEM, Marseille
Solo, Diasporas Now, Spike Island, Bristol
2025
Relay, with Samir Kennedy, The Common Guild, Glasgow
Re-Imagining in Conversation, with Shamica Ruddock, Nottingham Contemporary
2024
Conal Blake + Hannan Jones, Counterflows, Cafe OTO, London
Solo, Sagome 023, Cafe OTO, London
Re-Imagining in Conversation, with Shamica Ruddock, Q-O2 / Material Forma, Brussels
2023
Solo, re/tell atlas, ORAM Awards, Kings Place, London
Solo, How Do We Hold On?, Radiophrenia, Glasgow
Re-Imagining in Conversation, MADERIiDIG Festival, Portugal; Silent Green and SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
Hannan Jones × Pat Thomas × Shamica Ruddock, Counterflows, Glasgow
2022
Solo, re/tell atlas, New Radicalisms, Rotterdam
Solo, re/tell atlas, Edinburgh Art Festival
SELECTED SOUND DESIGN & COMPOSITION FOR FILM AND ARTIST MOVING-IMAGE
2024
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing, dir. Theo Panagopoulos — Sound Design
IDFA 2024, Best Short Film; Sundance 2025, Short Film Grand Jury Prize; BAFTA 2025 nominee; European Film Awards 2026 nominee
Seeing Red, dir. Owain Train McGilvary — Sound Design and Score
2023
In Praise of Slowness, dir. Hicham Gardaf — Sound Design and Compositional Score
MAST Photography Grant; Berlinale Forum Expanded; Whitney Museum of American Art
Comfort, dir. Daisy Smith — Sound Design
Swedenborg Film Festival 2024, Best Short Film
SELECTED RELEASES & PUBLICATIONS
2026
A Line Drawn Downwards, with Murray Collier, 12″, Real Landscape — forthcoming
Grapefruit Grapevine, 7″ — forthcoming
DWAM, cassette compilation, Spritz Editions
2025
A Frontier in Depth, 12″, Artes Mundi
2024
Oscillation:::Materia Forma III, with Shamica Ruddock and Ana María Romano G., umland editions / Q-O2
Orsova, with Murray Collier / Echo Party, 12″ compilation, 12th Isle
2023
Speculation is the Vehicle, with Shamica Ruddock, RESIST, Un-Magazine
EDUCATION
2020–21
Associate Artist, Open School East
2012–16
BA (Hons) Fine Art — Sculpture and Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art