Shamica Ruddock is an artist-composer working across film, installations and live performance. Shamica’s experiments in sound are informed by a core investment in sound as a site for knowledge production. Interested in dynamics of displacement, transferral and legibility, through practice Shamica attempts to evaluate how these as processes contribute to the way we articulate the everyday. Narrative, allegory and the linguistic function of drum language are also core departure points.
Shamica has previously held residencies with Brussels experimental sound lab QO2 and Amant Foundation, New York. Solo shows include The River Between, Studio Voltaire, London-UK (2026); Deciphering a Broken Syntax, South London Gallery, London-UK (2022) and Palimpsests & Epithets Skēnē, Malmö-Sweden (2024). Solo live performances include ArtHouse Jersey, UK, (2025), Cafe OTO, London, UK (2024) and Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus, Sweden; Festival presentations include Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick-UK (2024), Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York-UK (2023) and Timehri Film Festival, Georgetown-Guyana (2023); Fellowships include the British Library Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship and the FLAMIN Fellowship. Shamica is currently a Sound and Music In-Motion composer.
shamicaruddock@gmail.com