Hanna Tuulikki is a British-Finnish artist, composer, and performer based in Scotland, whose work explores our connection with the more-than-human world. Working across sound, music, live art, and visual art, she blends sonic composition with ritual forms, costume, choreography, and graphic scores to tell ‘stories of re-worlding’ through immersive installation, moving image, and live performance.
At the heart of her practice is the voice: she uses singing and extended vocalisation to explore how the body communicates beyond language, weaving composed and improvised vocal textures with field recordings and electronics. Often site-specific, her work activates natural acoustics and employs experimental translation to create hybrid ‘human-and-more-than-human’ soundscapes. Choreography, costume, and visual scores extend this inquiry into a kinaesthetic form of listening, while her drawn notations map relationships between voices, bodies, and landscapes.
Ecological research underpins her practice, particularly around multispecies kinship. Drawing on embodied vernacular knowledge, especially sonic and bio-mimesis – imitating the sounds and movements of other creatures – she asks how we might learn from animals and birds to sense, move, and live well on our shared planet.
Recent projects address the emotional impact of the climate crisis and art’s role in navigating grief, wonder, and care. Her work has been presented at Tramway, Folkestone Triennial, Glasgow Cathedral, British Art Show 9, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Biennale of Sydney, Helsinki Biennial, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and Edinburgh Art Festival. She has received a Paul Hamlyn Artist Award, a Henry Moore Artist Award, an Oram Award, and was shortlisted for an Ivor Novello Award.