Zara Worth is a visual artist, whose often golden pictorial and sculptural artworks explore value, meaning-making and belief systems in the god-shaped holes found throughout contemporary secular life.

Worth’s practice has been heavily influenced by her grandmother’s conversion to Russian Orthodoxy in the late 1980s and the quantum physics philosophy of Karen Barad, namely their theory of agential realism. In 2024 Worth gained a PhD in Fine Art titled, ‘Thinking-through traces: a practice-led diffractive reading of the smartphone through the Eastern Orthodox icon’. Frames and framing forms are a recurrent feature of Worth’s practice, as are interactive and community informed elements which actively engage audiences and project participants in the construction of new stories about being.

In 2025 Worth was selected to be part of the first ever Durham Creative Community Fellows initiative. Worth has previously been commissioned to produce artworks and projects for organisations including York Art Gallery, The Auckland Project, The Laing Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Into the Light, LINZ FMR Festival, GemArts, The Bowes Museum, & Creativity Works CIC.