Hannah Kemp-Welch is a sound artist with a social practice, creating works collaboratively and in community settings. Recent projects include Listening Alongside (2025), an audio installation made with local artists and schools for Nottingham Contemporary, Nomadic Listening (2024), a series of workshops and a radio installation for Manifesta 15 with communities in the Barcelona Metropolitan region, and o-o-radio! (2022), a project at Wysing Arts Centre building homemade radios with d/Deaf young people to better understand how hearing aids operate.
Hannah has a particular interest in transmission arts - she experiments with DIY antennas that tune into electromagnetic waves produced by natural phenomena. She is a member of feminist radio art group Shortwave Collective, together delivering workshops, performances, broadcasts, and writing. Recent projects include Mutual Radio Horizon (Somaphon festival, Germany, 2025) and Living Radio Lab (Struer Tracks Biennial, Denmark, 2023). Reflections on their collective work are published in Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear (Revell & Shin, 2024).
Hannah also produces audio documentaries and podcasts, with recent commissions including All Under One Magnetosphere for BBC Radio 4, At Midnight When All Boundaries are Lost for BBC’s Short Cuts (2024), Voices Surface: Accessing Handsworth Songs for LUX (2023), and two series on childcare activism with On The Record (2020–23), which received the Silver Award in the Grassroots Podcasts category from Audio UK (2024).
Alongside her artistic practice, Hannah is an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins and London College of Communication, where she teaches sound arts, contextual studies, community engagement and collaborative practice. She designed and delivers the elective ‘Cultural Democracy’ for BA Culture, Criticism and Curation and leads the Final Major Project unit for MA Sound Arts.
She is currently undertaking an AHRC-funded PhD with Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) at London College of Communication. Her project Listening With: Practices for Community-Based Art explores how specific modes of listening might support community art practices.
Hannah also has extensive experience in the arts and heritage sector, having held learning and engagement roles at London Metropolitan Archives (2020–21), the National Gallery (2020), youth music charity Raw Material (2013–20), and Tate (2013–17).
