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Hannah Rickards

Hannah Rickards is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Hannah Rickards rather than just read about it. In short: Hannah Rickards (born 1979) is a British conceptual sound artist. She has won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Visual and Performing Arts and the Nigel Greenwood Art Prize.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Hannah Rickards (born 1979) is a British conceptual sound artist. She has won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Visual and Performing Arts and the Nigel Greenwood Art Prize.

Life and work Rickards was born in 1979 in Hammersmith, London. She studied at Central Saint Martins, graduating in 2002. In 2007, she returned to teach there as a lecturer in Fine Art. Rickards is a conceptual sound artist. In 2007, Rickards interviewed people from Alaska who said they could hear the aurora borealis. During a solo show at The Showroom gallery in Marylebone, London, she displayed transcripts from her interviews on three monitors in red, green and blue. Rickards' 2009 two-screen film work No, there was no red, was displayed at the Whitechapel Gallery before it toured to the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Rickards' 2014 exhibition at Modern Art Oxford was accompanied by a monograph examining her artistic practice and with an introduction by Paul Hobson. After winning the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2015, Rickards took a two-year sabbatical from teaching at Central Saint Martins, during which time she worked on a new piece at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, in Troy, New York, and undertook research trips to the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Alberta.

Publications To enable me to fix my attention on any one of these symbols I was to imagine that I was looking at the colours as I might see them on a moving picture screen. Oxford: Modern Art Oxford, 2014. By Paul Hobson, Sally Shaw, Isla Leaver-Yap, Rickards, and Adam Chodzko. Grey light. Left and right back, high up, two small windows. Sternberg/Fogo Island Arts, 2016. By Melissa Gronlund, Will Holder, Alexandra McIntosh, Nicolaus Schafhausen, and Rickards.

Awards 2009: Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2015: Philip Leverhulme Prize in Visual and Performing Arts 2018: Nigel Greenwood Art Prize

Exhibitions MaxMara Art Prize for Women: Hannah Rickards: No, there was no red, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2009 To enable me to fix my attention on any one of these symbols I was to imagine that I was looking at the colours as I might see them on a moving picture screen., Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England, 2014 Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England, 2016 One can make out the surface only by placing any dark-coloured object on the ground, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada, 2018-2019

References

External links Official website Hannah Rickards discusses "Thunder" and other works on YouTube posted February 23, 2016 Modern Art Oxford

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Hannah Rickards

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Hannah Rickards claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Hannah Rickards before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Hannah Rickards ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Hannah Rickards

In research: Hannah Rickards appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Hannah Rickards in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Hannah Rickards is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1979 births, 21st-century British women artists, 21st-century English artists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Hannah Rickards outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Hannah Rickards in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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