Art and Archaeology – Dr Rose Ferraby, archaeologist and artist

Dr Rose Ferraby is known to many of us as the co-director of the Aldborough Roman Town Project which, since 2009, has used excavation and a wide range of survey techniques to discover more about the Roman town of Isurium Brigantum. She has also become nationally known as an artist and writer who explores landscape histories through creative practice in order to communicate to wider audiences. 

In 2019 she worked with Rob St John to create ‘Soundmarks’ which “emerged from a conversation about how we might explore and communicate the parts of landscape we cannot see:the sub-surface layerings beneath our feet.” Using painted collage, printmaking, illustration, film and sound, they explored Aldborough Roman Town and then Roman York as part of the ‘Roman York Beneath the Streets’ project. More recently she curated ‘Downland:Art & the Archaeological Imagination’ at the Wiltshire Museum and ‘Gleanings:The Art of the Past’ at Peterborough Museum.

Rose has a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology (University of Cambridge), an MFA in Illustration (Edinburgh College of Art) and a PhD (University of Exeter). She is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. She has been commissioned by the British Museum and Ulster Museum and travels all over the country to present programmes on Radio 3’s The Essay and Radio 4’s Open Country.

Rose grew up on the edge of Aldborough, the Roman remains inspiring her future career, and we very much look forward to what promises to be an inspiring talk.

Friends of Roman Aldborough free. Visitors £7.50