Emma Rose

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Tír na nÓg [The Otherworld], in Celtic myth, is the shadow realm of our own; a mythical land of the divine, of immortality and eternal youth; a place where folklore has free reign. With her transcendent vision, Emma Rose leads us back and forth between the two worlds, weaving narrative threads of delicate complexity between story and storytellers.

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Emma Rose – Tír na nÓg #49

Like all accomplished storytellers, Rose gives us just enough texture and detail to draw us in, to make her work compelling, but at the same time just enough mystery - enough otherness – to keep us wondering.

Emma Rose was born in West Yorkshire in 1964. She read music and history of art at Trinity College, Dublin, and is a pianist and flautist as well as a fine art photographer.

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Emma Rose – Dance #14

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Emma Rose – Dance #3

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Emma Rose – Tír na nÓg #3

In the excitement before a show, we imagine one of its young cast to point to distant shadows, and in spellbinding whispers animate Manannan mac Lir’s horse, Aonbharr, which can traverse both land and sea faster than the wind. A contemplative woman, meanwhile, sees her past more clearly in the darkness, and wonders why she’s spent her whole life running from a lover she’s never met. While he waits patiently for time, and a different telling, to bring them together. As another man reflects on the older brother he alone sees by his side, who jumped too boldly from one world to the other. Whilst their mother implores them to be careful in the everlasting interval of her daughter’s show.