Hannah Catherine Jones (aka foxymoron) is a Doncaster-born, Bajan-diasporic, London-based artist, researcher, multi-instrumentalist, broadcaster/DJ (BBC Radio/TV, NTS - The Opera Show), composer, conductor, founder and creative director of Peckham Chamber Orchestra – a community project established in 2013 and founder and creative director of Chiron Choir - a queer diasporic choir established in 2022.
In performance, Jones conjures transcendent soundscapes, building layers from a live multi-instrumental set-up including theremin(s), voice, synthesisers, strings, samples and utilising fx and multiple looping systems simultaneously, to transport audiences into interdimensional sonic portals.
Jones completed her AHRC DPhil scholarship at Oxford University in 2021 for which the ongoing body of work The Oweds was presented as a series of live and recorded, broadcast, audio-visual episode-compositions, using disruptive sound as a methodology of institutional decolonisation.
Jones has performed, exhibited and lectured widely, internationally, including: Leeds Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, National Gallery, Southbank Centre, Institute of Contemporary Arts, V&A, Oxford University, Trinity Laban, Cafe Oto, Nottingham Contemporary, BrittenPears, (UK), Ocean Space (IT), ECAL (CH), Sandberg Institute (NL), University of Bayreuth (GER), Beirut Art Centre (LEBN), Oi Futuro (BR), Eyethu Centre (SA), New York University, Harvard University (U.S.), NIRIN: 22nd Biennial of Sydney, Liquid Architecture (AUS), Wonderfruit (TH), amongst others.
