Village Green by Rose Ferraby (2019)
Soundmarks - Rose Ferraby and Rob St. John
In 2019, Soundmarks, explored and documented Aldborough’s hidden sub-surface landscape of Aldborough, a North Yorkshire village which lies over the Roman town of Isurium Brigantum. A collaboration between Dr. Rose Ferraby and Rob St. John spanning art, sound and archaeology, Soundworks has explored and documented Aldborough’s hidden sub-surface landscape. Supported by Arts Council England, this project produced an art exhibition, a sound installation, a book, an audio art trail, a film, and a podcast. Fabulously, all of the work is available online: soundmarks.co.uk.
Dr. Rose Ferraby is an archaeologist and artist. She co-directs the Aldborough Roman Town Project from the University of Cambridge. Rose’s visual art explores the ways we interact with and understand landscapes, developing artistic practice to explore archaeological ideas. Her work includes printmaking, painting and illustration. She won the Michael Marks Award for Poetry Illustration in 2017, and her work has been displayed at the British Library, the British Museum, and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge. She is interested in exploring ways of engaging wider audiences in landscape research and archaeology, including community arts and radio (BBC Radio 3: Cornerstones 2018; New Generation Thinker finalist 2019).
Rob St. John is an artist and writer, working primarily with sound, film and photography, his practice is attentive to entanglements of nature and culture in contemporary landscapes, and is often based on slow, sustained periods of fieldwork. Rob’s work been shown/heard at Tate Modern (Emergent Landscapes, 2016), The Victoria and Albert Museum (Fashioned From Nature, 2018), Edinburgh Architecture Fringe (Open Close, 2017), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (SOUNDING, 2017), Sanctuary Lab (Sing the Gloaming, 2017), Dundee Design Festival (Singing Glass, 2018), and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (Concrete Antenna, 2015), amongst numerous others, and profiled on BBC Radio 3, 4 and 6 Music.
Soundmarks is supported by Friends of Roman Aldborough (FORA) and
English Heritage and funded by Arts Council England.
The project has an excellent book:
Ferraby, R and St. John, R. 2020. Soundmarks. Bowland: Pattern and Process.
(which you can order online: https://soundmarks.co.uk/book/)
Also see the following:
For more information about Rose Farraby follow this link:
For more information about Rob St John follow this link:
Workshop sound recording tractor in rain. Copyright: Soundmarks.
Rob Finds Tent. Copyright: Soundmarks.
Glass Slide by Mary Chitty. Copyright: Soundmarks
Workshop painting. Copyright: Soundmarks.