Hanna Tuulikki

Hanna Tuulikki is a British-Finnish artist, composer and performer whose work explores our connection with the more-than-human world. Working across sound art, music, visual art, and live art, she blends sonic composition with ritual forms and visual elements to tell ​‘stories of re-worlding’ through live performance, moving image and immersive installation.

At the heart of her practice, Tuulikki works with the voice, using singing and extended vocalisation to explore how the body communicates beyond language. Weaving vocal textures with field recordings and electronics, her compositions and improvisations are often site-specific, activating natural acoustics and adopting processes of experimental translation to create hybrid ​‘human-and-more-than-human’ soundscapes. Expanding this inquiry, she works with visual scores to map relationships between bodies, voices, and landscapes, and with choreography and costume to explore how movement and image can embody kinaesthetic forms of listening.

Ecological research underpins Tuulikki’s practice, particularly around multispecies kinship. She draws on embodied vernacular knowledge, especially sonic and bio-mimesis – imitating the sounds and movements of other creatures – to ask what we might learn from animals and birds about how to coexist on our shared planet. Her recent research examines the emotional dimensions of the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, and how art and music can help us navigate grief, wonder, and empathy in a rapidly changing world.

Her work has been commissioned and presented at Folkestone Triennial, British Art Show 9, Glasgow Cathedral, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, IMA Brisbane, Biennale of Sydney, Hospitalfield, Helsinki Biennial, Take Me Somewhere, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Edinburgh Art Festival, and BBC SSO’s Tectonics Festival. She recently received an Oram Award and a Henry Moore Artist Award, and was shortlisted for an Ivor Novello Award in sound art.