The Marsh Award for Excellence in Visual Arts Engagement
The Multi Sensory Art Project 2022
In December 2022 Julieann Worrall Hood was a recipient of the national Marsh Award for Excellence in Visual Arts Engagement along with her colleagues Rebecca Churchill and Emma Kerr for their work on the Multi Sensory Art Project.
‘Over the last ten years, The Multi-Sensory Art Project has taught us that we have to jump insurmountable hurdles to make access to high quality arts events possible for young people with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD). These challenges have made us all the more passionate and determined to create such opportunities for those who would otherwise not be able to encounter them, and this article and film details the challenges and joys of making this a reality.’
From an article written by Rebecca Churchill, project founder, can also be found here.
A partnership project led by Roche Court Educational Trust. In 2022 the project encompassed four group visits to Roche Court, two off-site visits and for the first time ever, a trip to the woods, a film of which was made by Julieann - her first ever foray into filmmaking!
The film was shown at the online, international PMLD Conference in September 2022 and at Oily Cart Super Sensory Share, Battersea Arts Centre, in February 2023.
A film made by Julieann Worrall Hood for the Multi Sensory Art Project
Shown at the international PMLD Conference in September 2022 and at Oily Cart Super Sensory Share, London 2023.
A visitor to the exhibition looks through one of the interactive teleidoscopes to see the Scribble Cloud Mirror wall sculptures, reflections and surroundings kaleidoscopically.
KALEIDOSCOPIC
13 September – 5 November 2022 Salisbury Arts Centre
Just like the shifting patterns as the kaleidoscope twists, we each have a different experience of the place and time that we live in.
Julieann Worrall Hood was commissioned by Persimmon Homes to create the four sculptures of hares at St Peter’s Place in Salisbury. The hare appears in myths and legends in many cultures around the world and throughout history. Hares are of particular significance to this area.
The sculptures not only celebrate the local hare population, taking inspiration from a small, Roman, gold hare brooch that is in the collection at Salisbury Museum. They also reference the legend of a 16th Century shepherd who saw hares dancing at full moon on Salisbury Plain. This was believed to be an incredibly lucky omen.
The hare sculptures were installed at St Peter’s Place in 2018. They are made from polished stainless-steel rods, formed into scribbly, three-dimensional drawings. The mirror finish reflects the changing skies and surroundings. The place where they are sited has become known as Bunny Park.
Julieann continues developing her scribbly plein air drawings into sculptural pieces. Explore her new Scribble Mirror Cloud wall sculptures, smaller wearable artworks, film and soundscape.
Kaleidoscopic - workshops at Roche Court Sculpture Park and in local primary schools
In partnership with Roche Court Educational Trust, over two days in May 2022 Julieann devised and led teleidoscope making workshops and interactive tours of the New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park for classes of Year 5 children from St Peter’s Primary Academy and Woodlands Primary School of Salisbury.
It was the first time any of the children had visited this wonderful commercial art gallery and sculpture park, only a few miles from where they live. Together they explored perception, meaning and place by looking at and discussing works by Antony Caro, Barry Flanagan, Peter Newman, Bill Woodrow and Paul Roberts Holmes.
Create Digital filmed the experience. Click on the image on the right to watch it.
A magical couple of days!
Julieann then visited the children in their schools and led workshops where every child designed and made their own hybrid creature sculpture. The 50 resulting sculptural maquettes can be seen at Salisbury Arts Centre as part of the Kaleidoscopic exhibition.
p.s teleidoscopes are open ended kaleidoscopes - so that whatever you look at gets reconfigured into a myriad of patterns.
A film made by Create Digital of visits to Roche Court Sculpture Park by children from two primary schools as part of the Kaleidoscopic project.
KALEIDOSCOPIC
Exhibition at Salisbury Arts Centre- Opens September 13 2022
Perception is like a shifting kaleidoscope. We all have different views and experiences that can evolve and change, just like the patterns as we twist the kaleidoscope.
KALEIDOSCOPIC brings together residents from the two neighbouring communities of St Peter’s Place and Bemerton Heath in Salisbury with Wiltshire sculptor Julieann Worrall Hood, Roche Court Educational Trust, and filmmakers Create Studios.
Following inspirational visits to nearby New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park, an installation of teleidoscopes, films and soundscape is being created to celebrate the multiple experiences of perception and the place where they live.
Come and interact with this sensory installation at Salisbury Arts Centre from September 13th to November 5th.
Salisbury Hares. Public Sculptures at St. Peter’s Place, Salisbury
In 2018 Julieann Worrall Hood created a series of four, large, leaping, running and boxing hares, commissioned by Persimmon Homes. The scribbly, stainless steel hare sculptures cavort across a park that runs adjacent to St Peter’s Place, a new development on the edge of Salisbury and the Salisbury Plain.
There is a local legend that a 17th Century shepherd saw hares dancing by the light of the full moon on Salisbury Plain and it brought him good luck. Salisbury Plain continues to provide habitat for hares.
In 2022 Julieann is leading a project with the local community and primary schools that celebrates the place and people of this area. More news on this coming soon…
Insect Odyssey: Insects, books and the artistic imagination.
Saturday, June 25, 2022 to Sunday, September 25, 2022
Salisbury Museum
Insect Odyssey celebrates contemporary artistic practice, champions the relationship between art and science, and highlights the crucial role played by insects in the environment.
Julieann Worrall Hood’s miniature sculpture Lost (2022) is on display in this group exhibition, alongside pieces by Peter Randall Page, Tessa Farmer and Su Blackwell.
‘Through the scale and materiality of my sculpture Lost I hope to have created a work that whispers to you of the temporary, fragile, yet epic nature of life. Lost pays homage to the immensely personal work In the House of My Father (1997) by Donald Rodney, whilst relating to wider issues, including the now ecologically unsettling vast Victorian collections of pinned insects.
The butterfly wings are tattered, found materials - the remnants of lives.’
Excerpt from the exhibition catalogue.
Curated by Dr Lis Darby and Prudence Maltby.
Five2Watch: Education featuring Julieann Worrall Hood
To coincide with the launch of the axisweb.org graduate programme in July 2022, five artists were selected who have considered education as part of their practice, featuring: David Lloyd, Julieann Worrall Hood, Razvan Anton, Anna Chrystal Stephens and nikkita morgan
Lines of Desire, 2015 - 2016
An interdisciplinary creative education research project at Bath Spa University, co-devised and led by Julieann Worrall Hood, Dr Rebecca Schaaf and Professor Owain Jones. This collaborative project involved art, geography, creative media and film students, the artists Richard Long Sue Lawty and Richard White and the Arnolfini gallery Bristol, responding to the multi layered experience of place through digital multi media mapping, walking and land art practices.
The experience and outcomes of the project were presented by Julieann and Becky at the British Academy Landscaping Change conference at Bath Spa University in March 2016, and also disseminated through a short film made by Media students and a published paper, Geography and Art: Encountering Place Across Disciplines
Chat and Q&A session with artist Julieann Worrall Hood and researcher Dr Paul March-Russell talking about Riddley Walker
Join artist Julieann Worrall Hood and researcher Paul March-Russell on Saturday the 21st of November from 3pm-4pm. As they discuss Paul’s research and interest in Russell Hoban’s extraordinary novel Riddley Walker. We will also be discussing how Julieann will respond to the novel, with a Family Art Making Day in 2021, using found materials to create proposals for a new monument to Ridley Walker, set in the East Kent landscape. The discussion will suitable for anyone aged 10 or above.
This online event will take place on Zoom. Sign up at the link below to receive joining instructions.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tiny-manyings-for-riddley-tickets-12933564339
This event is being presented as part of the Kent Open Thinking Programme and is supported by Canterbury Festival and The Gulbenkian. It is part of the Being Human festival, the UK's only national festival of the humanities, taking place 12-22 November. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the British Academy. For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org
Creating Spaces: The History of Bath Schools of Art and Design 1853-2020
As a lecturer and MFA alumna of Bath School of Art and Design, Worrall Hood’s sculpture ‘The Vulnerability of Hope’ is featured in this new publication from Wunderkammer Press.
Creating Spaces explores for the first time the rich and intriguing 160-year history of the Bath Schools of Art and Design in its entirety. It charts the diverse buildings, people and events that have shaped them over the years and shows how the city that founded the original Bath School of Art in 1853 has continued to play a key role in transforming its many spaces ever since.
Published: March 2020
Coldplay: Creating Pianos and Textiles for Live Album Launch in Jordan 2019
Worrall Hood has an ongoing interdisciplinary project with The Piano Shop Bath and was delighted to be invited to be lead artist when The Piano Shop were approached by the Coldplay team to create bespoke pianos and set dressings that embodied the ideas behind their latest album. It was a very special opportunity to collaborate with Coldplay’s creative team to make something together that celebrated musicians, makers and lives across generations and cultures for the live-streamed launch of the new album ‘Everyday Life’ from Amman, Jordan, on November 22nd 2019.
For more information about this project, including sketches and photos of the pieces produced, please visit The Piano Shop Bath blog.
Look Again Project: Re-designing the Fashion Gallery at The Salisbury Museum 2019-2021
Worrall Hood brings her creative vision to this project at The Salisbury Museum to reimagine and redesign the Fashion Gallery together with a group of young people from local schools and colleges around Salisbury, volunteers from The Arts Society and design and heritage professionals.
How to engage young people more with museums collections? The Salisbury Museum after school group The Collective initially met weekly, and then moved to online workshops designed and led by Worrall Hood, to explore the extensive Fashion collection and archive, inform the selection of objects and co-design the new gallery, learning all about the many career routes available in design and heritage.
The outcomes include a newly designed and presented Fashion Gallery together with new display panels, digital and hands on engagement resources, a blog and Instagram feed, all co-created with the young people.
From 8-80: A City for All London Festival of Architecture 2019
City planning happens elsewhere. Processes are opaque, powerful interests lie with the other. This can lead to people feeling disempowered, and to the ignored needs, dreams and wishes of whole parts of society.
The aim of this project was to open the process, turn it on its head and develop a bottom up imaginative vision.
By inviting people from both ends of the age spectrum together with artists and writers to explore, discuss and dream up a fantastical and utopian future for a shared city, to learn from each other and dig deep. Together we created stories and maps to produce fragments of an urban future that is desirable and an environment conducive to wellbeing and sustainability.
Led by Julieann Worrall Hood and writer Jeremy Page, in collaboration with award winning practice Erect Architecture and students from the Royal College of Art, as part of the London Festival of Architecture. A utopian story of shared living and a city truly for all was imagined in intergenerational workshops at Camley Street Nature Reserve, Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross London.
The stories will be a starting point for Erect Architecture to determine the strategic steps that need to take place to get to this imagined place and to develop possible solutions and interventions.
Spring Board: Sculpture and Dance 2019-2020
Between 2017 and 2020 Worrall Hood, as Head of Education at Roche Court Educational Trust, created opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations, provocations and explorations that encourage participants to experience the art, the place and the world we live in through other lenses.
Worrall Hood developed projects with a number of educational institutions and organisations, including: University of Winchester Dance degree course; Theology, Imagination and Culture courses at Sarum College; School of Communication at the Royal College of Art; architectural practices in London and the British Council in Germany.
Springboard, the ongoing partnership with Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) Dance BA course, supports creative responses and professional practice experience for undergraduate students, whilst also reaching out to local school and college pupils who may not otherwise have access to such experiences.
Springboard 2019 was profiled by ENGAGE, the national organisation for gallery and museum education.
In 2020 the project went ahead online, leading to new and innovative methods of engagement and performance.