Coady Fitzroy
she/her
Preserved In Silence
My work explores bog bodies as both archeological artefacts and once-living individuals, with a focus on the ethics of their display. I’m interested in the many tensions between curiosity, education and respect for the dead and how museums might choose to frame and display human remains. Drawing and documenting medical illustration and archival practices helps me to understand more about the body and how it acts as a site of memory where peoples' histories are preserved but also shaped and distorted over time.
My work also reflects on the relationships between life and death. I bring my own physical body into my work as a way of grounding these ideas to lived experience, using it as a point of connection between the living and the dead.
Boundaries, ink on cloth.
Silence Down By The Bog, acrylic ink, oil paint, clay and gold leaf.
Bog Bodies Can Not Dance, acrylic ink, acrylic paint and clay.
Reflection, oil paint, acrylic paint and chalk.
Bog Body, card, bandages, cling film, cloth and acrylic paint.
Inside the Bones, chalk on brown card.
Dance of Death, acrylic ink.
Fragile Archive, ink on Lokta light paper.
Blanket Bog on the Wicklow Mountains, chalk drawing on black card.
Baby Bog, acrylic ink on hobby grass.
Research
Tollund Man, acrylic ink on Lokta light paper.
Installation view, NCAD Works 2026.
RCSI bone under microscope, photography print, research.