JULIEANN WORRALL HOOD
JULIEANN WORRALL HOOD
ABOUT
Julieann Worrall Hood is an artist and creative educator. Much of her work is about an acute longing for home: finding glimpses and whispers in seemingly disparate things. Both her artistic and educational practice engage with pluralities of meaning, across time, disciplines and cultures. Mixed media drawings, tapestries and sculptures weave together the synergies and spaces between sensory experience, memory and imagination.
A graduate of the Tapestry Department at Edinburgh College of Art, with an MFA from Bath Spa University, whilst tapestry artist-in-residence at the V&A in 1996 Worrall Hood first came across exquisite Coptic miniature tapestries made eighteen centuries ago using an eccentric weaving technique similar to her own. These very fine fragments, with undulating wefts and fluid, dancing lines, continue to inform her work.
Drawing is also central to her practice, as a form of pure connection between the senses and the hand, be it drawing with pencil, threads or steel. Public commissions include sculptures in Salisbury, Denver Museum, USA and The National Forest, Leicestershire with corporate commissions for Conran and Chanel in London, Manchester and Dublin. In an ongoing project with The Piano Shop Bath, Worrall Hood is shaping sound through the language of sculpture, using scrap piano parts as her raw material, creating installations in Bath and collaborating with the Piano Shop team on other projects such as creating pieces for the band Coldplay for live performances in 2019 and 2021.
As an artist educator, Worrall Hood has led projects in schools, museums, universities, galleries, theatres and communities, nationally and internationally. She has also held positions as the Head of Education at Roche Court Educational Trust, at the New Art Centre and as a lecturer at Bath Spa University.
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