Dr. Rose Ferraby is an archaeologist and artist. She co-directs the Aldborough Roman Town Project from the University of Cambridge.

Her 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 based in rural Lancashire.

His practice is focused on the blurrings of nature and culture in contemporary landscapes. He works primarily across sound, moving image, installation and film photography.

His work, usually based on slow periods of sited fieldwork, has been shown/heard at Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Barbican, The British Museum, Tramway Glasgow, The Royal Geographical Society, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Lighthouse Glasgow, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, and many others. He has variously produced, edited and contributed to numerous publications, both artistic and academic.

Soundmarks is supported by Friends of Roman Aldborough (FORA) and English Heritage and funded by Arts Council England.

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