2024
Rose was commissioned by Professor Melanie Giles at the University of Manchester and Creative Manchester to create a new artwork that celebrated archaeological understandings of Lindow Man, 40 years after his remains were first discovered in Lindow Moss, Cheshire.
Lindow Man is a bog body whose remains were deposited in a bog in the first century AD, to be discovered again in 1984 during peat cutting. Although on display at the British Museum, Lindow Man is an important and much-cherished part of the community in Wilmslow, and has become a symbol of the brilliant efforts by local communities to preserve the peatlands.
Having spent a lot of time working on and in bogs, Rose was fascinated by the fluid relationship between Lindow Man’s body and the bog itself; their stories intertwined. Her collage echoes this, working at multiple scale, and with ecological species haunting inner and outer worlds.
Rose’s work was commissioned alongside ceramic sculptures by Liz Ellis and new poetry by Abbi Flint. An event at Manchester Museum celebrated all aspects of Lindow Moss and Lindow Man, and the many people who have worked hard to preserve both for generations to come.
