2025
Rose was commissioned by the National Museum of Northern Ireland to create a new artwork exploring the recently discovered bog body just outside Bellaghy in Northern Ireland.
Discovered during peat extraction, Ballymacombs More Woman was originally excavated by the police, until radiocarbon dating revealed she had died in the bog in the Iron Age. Archaeologists at the National Museums of Northern Ireland and specialists from Queens University Belfast and other institutions, are currently undertaking research into all kinds of aspects of the discovery. But there is a wonderful magic to her story, a ‘bog queen’ emerging from the peat so close to where Seamus Heaney grew up.
Rose was commissioned by the museum to create a piece of artwork that not only communicated some of the archaeological context and landscape, but which also considered the more enigmatic and emotional aspects of her discovery.
The project is currently ongoing, and more news of the artwork will be coming soon.