Annette Rose
Annette Rose is a nurse-anthropologist, health educator and neuroarts advocate. She trained and nursed for 9 years in Christchurch hospital wards, operating theatres and in the community. She also completed degrees in Anthropology and in Business where she co-developed a new educational mask-making model which involved manufacturing 30,000 mask templates locally in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Welcome to NEUROROSE LIBRARY
Her experience has led her to work extensively with masks in schools and in supporting communities with trauma as well as wider wellness understandings. Her work has been recognized internationally including Australia, England, America, Canada, South America, Nicaragua, Sweden & Denmark, Japan, Cambodia, India, Africa, and Timor. She has co-published a women’s wellness journal, an initiative recognized by an award from the Christchurch City Council, New Zealand. She also received a research scholarship from the Health Research Council of New Zealand. Annette has trained in multiple disciplines - public health, social anthropology, social enterprise, creative arts - for a wise teacher once taught her the answers to curly questions lie outside the model that creates them.
In this rare moment in history when the system we live by fractures, we need to put forward new blueprints such as this NRC Neuromask Toolbox with its themes of; tactile engagement, embodied cognition, neural integration, and identity reformation following sudden identity shifts caused by natural disasters, war, displacement - woven together in a frame of cultural memory and collective wellbeing:
Vol.1 NRC NEUROMASK TOOLBOX: A Primer, for using masks as neuroarts canvas for brain health
Vol.2 MAKING THE PLAIN FACE-MASK: An Enterprise Backstory, companion to the NRC Neuromask Toolbox
John Marsden, Australian writer (author of the seven-volume 'Tomorrow' novel series for young adults) and school principal says, ‘I was astounded by Annette Rose’s exploration of the masks created by children who have been hurt. The earthquake masks are among the most powerful things I’ve ever seen. They allow children to express their unconscious thoughts and feelings in extraordinary synchronicity with their conscious awareness. Annette’s work is rich with new insights, new perspectives, startling ideas. There seem to be almost no limits to where this book can take teachers and others'.
This neuromask pilot project which began twenty years ago as a Masters of Entrepreneurship thesis (above photo), ends up catching the 2025 neuroscience-meets-art wave. New content coming soon. User feedback welcomed.
Interests
Loitering in spaces uncompromisingly neuro-aesthetic
Writing on the neuroarts paradigm
Watching K-drama healing narratives
Listening to Marlon Williams
Cooking brain-food for family