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Dr Zara Worth

Impact Coordinator/Research Fellow

Part-time Lecturer

Zara Worth is an artist and researcher interested in value, meaning-making and belief systems. Currently she is undertaking a practice-led PhD exploring entanglements/differences between the smartphone and the Eastern Orthodox icon.

Worth often works with ersatz materials such as imitation gold leaf and faux neon LED lighting to create installations open to intra-actions with audiences. Interested in the potential of opening up the work through collaboration, Worth has recently worked with dance artists, inviting them to create live and recorded responses to her work. Recent works investigate the significance of the frame as a site of entanglement between the icon and the smartphone, considering the frame in relation to themes of space, gesture and presence.

Research Interests

Agential realism
Diffractive methodologies in practice-based research
Social media technologies and cultures
Religious artworks and artefacts
The image
New Religious Movements

0113 812 0000
Z.Worth@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Broadcasting Place, B Building Bpb202, City Campus

Leeds School of Arts

Ask Me About

Art
Culture
Feminism
Religion
Social Media
Spirituality

Selected Outputs

Worth Z; Woolley D (2022) Creative Consumption: Art About Eating on Instagram. In: Food Instagram Identity, Influence, and Negotiation. University of Illinois Press,
Worth Z; Woolley D (2022) God Shaped Hole. In: Painting, Photography, and the Digital: Crossing the Borders of the Mediums.

Worth Z (2022) Like that and like that: Thinking about images through images, or, Thinking about iPhones and Instagram through icons. In: Call and Response II, 1 June 2022 - 29 June 2022, Royal College of Art, Greenwich University & NAFAE.
Worth Z; Woolley D (2021) God Shaped Hole. In: DigitalPaintingPhotography International Online symposium, 21 October 2021 - 22 October 2021, University of Derby.
Worth Z; Woolley D (2019) The politics of food culture on Instagram. Island Dynamics, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Worth Z (2019) Social Media in Practice. University of Leeds, UK.
Worth Z; Woolley D (2019) The Politics of Food Culture on Instagram. Durham University, UK.
Worth Z; Woolley D (2019) [Im]moral and [Im]famous: Food, morality and celebrity of Instagram. University of Roehampton, UK.

Worth Z (In press) Shared Meals: Instagram as a space for virtual feasting and rites of incorporation. FEAST

http://feastjournal.co.uk/article/shared-meals-instagram-as-a-space-for-virtual-feasting-and-rites-of-incorporation/
Worth Z (2020) SMS (Social-Media-Speak) as/for/in creative practice. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 13 (1), pp. 3-8.

https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcp.13.1.3_2
Worth Z (2020) Chorus. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 13 (1), pp. 101-110.

https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcp.13.1.101_3
Worth Z (2016) Wellness (January, 2017). Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 9 (3), pp. 191-223.

https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcp.9.3.191_1

Worth Z; Lee-Turton T; Bakshinskaya X. (2023) Thinking-through images. 21 January 2023. York Art Gallery:

https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/whats-on/events/thinking-through-images/
Worth Z; Krische R. (2022) Venerating Images. 7 January 2022. Newcastle Contemporary Art:

https://www.zaraworth.com/venerating-images.html

Worth Z (2023) Thinking-through images - Open Compositions. Leeds Arts University
Worth Z (2022) Think of a door: How Eastern Orthodox Icons can help us understand Web 2.0 cultures and technologies. Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, MA, USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gStc0I9Ygv4
Worth Z (2019) Present, Present, Presence. FACT, Liverpool, UK

Worth Z (2023) I Wish (Wish 15) Held at: Shandy Hall, Coxwold, UK.

More information: https://www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/event/i-wish-exhibition-and-auction/
Worth Z (2022) Think of a door (temptation/redemption) [Installation]. Held at: York Art Gallery.

More information: https://www.yorkartgallery.org.uk/exhibition/sin/
Worth Z (2021) #Portal [Installation]. Held at: Newcastle Contemporary Art.

More information: https://www.visitnca.com/exhibitions/now-thats-what-i-call-art
Worth Z (2021) #Portal [Installation]. Held at: LINZ FMR, Austria (2021); Newcastle Contemporary Art, UK (2021).

More information: https://21.linzfmr.at/