Little nothings, mementoes of home, fragile tokens. Objects and installations that bring together concrete, steel, butterfly wings and air.
Making pieces informed by a network of associations, Julieann Worrall Hood brings together the personal, political and environmental in poetic, tangential ways.
This collage-like visual language is created out of the raw materials of her life and surroundings in rural Wiltshire. Weaving together the known and the intuited, memories, storytelling, the elemental patterns in nature and migration; migration in nature and humanity and the migration of ideas, materials and making methods across places, cultures and time.
The tiny, fragile sculptures and kinetic installations evoke how stories are constructed and told, and how we use them to make sense of our lives.
The Vulnerability of Hope
2016. Concrete and ethically sourced butterfly wings. 20cm x 20cm x 20cm
The Faraway Nearby
2015. Found object and ethically sourced butterfly wings. 30cm diameter x 15cm
Home and exile.
Lost
2015/2022. Ethically sourced butterfly wings. 5cm x 5cm x 7cm
Playing explicit homage to Donald Rodney’s work ‘In the House of My Father’, this small, fragile sculpture was first made in 2015 in response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis. In 2022 it has been re-imagined. Encapsulated in a large, clear bio-resin cube, Lost speaks of fragility and force, of refugees, war and the precariousness of the natural world.
Whispers
2016. Concrete and ethically sourced butterfly wings. Variable dimensions.
Dark Matter
2015. Found cage, bare light bulb on cable and ethically sourced butterfly wings. 20cm x 20cm x 45cm
Why Beauty Matters
2015. Vitrine containing 15 miniature, butterfly wing houses. 60cm x 20cm x 45cm
Little Nothings
2016. Concrete and pressed cow parsley. Dimensions and combinations are variable. Each individual concrete cube is 7cm x 7cm x 7cm approximately including cow parsley.
Little Nothings
2016. Concrete and pressed cow parsley. Dimensions and combinations are variable. Each individual concrete cube is 7cm x 7cm x 7cm approximately including cow parsley.
Little Nothings
2016. Concrete and pressed cow parsley. 2016. Concrete and pressed cow parsley. Dimensions and combinations variable. Each concrete cube is 7cm x 7cm x 7cm approximately including cow parsley.
Little Nothings
2016. Concrete and pressed cow parsley. Dimensions and combinations are variable. Each individual concrete cube is 7cm x 7cm x 7cm approximately including cow parsley.
Swarm
2016. Found cage, inked newspaper fragments, fan.
