Soundmarks, Ferraby & St John

Soundmarks is an exploration of sub-surface landscapes through creative practice. A collaboration between Rose Ferraby and Rob St John, it weaves their ideas, knowledge and skills in archaeology, visual art, writing, sound, film and photography to foray into the intermingling human and natural layers that underpin the particular landscape at Aldborough Roman Town in North Yorkshire.

This page is just a fragment of the Soundmarks project — for more information including a podcast, artwork and a map with coinciding sound pieces and films including the documentary by Mario Cruzado below, visit soundmarks.co.uk where the book is also available to buy. Ferraby and St John hope to exhibit in August at the Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge.

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, using 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 and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

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. His work has been shown/heard at Tate Modern (Emergent Landscapes, 2016), The Victoria and Albert Museum (Fashioned From Nature, 2018), Edinburgh Architecture Fringe (Open Close, 2017), and profiled on BBC Radio 3, 4 and 6 Music.