Ain Bailey

Ain Bailey (born 1963, in London) is a British composer, sound artist, DJ, and multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores sonic autobiography, memory, grief, identity, architecture, and feminist politics. Working across sound art, installation, moving image, live performance, and DJ practice, Bailey examines silence, absence, place, and social relation through field recordings, found sound, multichannel composition, and collaborative projects.  Bailey earned an MMus in Studio Composition from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work often engages architectural acoustics, live performance, and the formation of identity, using sound workshops, moving-image collaborations, and electroacoustic composition to consider grief, home, memory, and resistance. Recent institutional writing also frames her ongoing The Jamaica Project as a trilogy rooted in her biography and relationship to Jamaica.  Her work has been exhibited and performed at Camden Art Centre, Cubitt, Eastside Projects, Transmission Gallery, Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, and The Kitchen, New York. She was commissioned by Art Basel Miami Beach in 2016 and was the Cavendish Arts Science Fellow at Girton College in 2022–2023. Ain Bailey lives and works in London.