antony lyons
~ hybrid artist-researcher
~ video-sonic-photo installations and place investigations
~ geopoetics, deep-time, creative and critical spatial deep-mappings
~ eco-cultural and multi-species explorations, collaborations and writings
[ PROJECTS ]
Detail from printed work installation - Quantock Dreaming, 2008
![[ JOURNAL ]
occasional reflections on current projects](PROJECTS_files/shapeimage_2.png)
[ THE IMAGINARIUM ]
meshes of cultural and rewilding relationships: landscapes, people, materials, intangibles
Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol, 2008
Creative Residency, Quantock Hills, Somerset, 2007-8
LOUGH GUR NEXUS
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(Trail and Slow Residency)
Ireland, ongoing
Amuigh Faoin Spéir
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Public Art Commission
Dooish School, Donegal 2011
Public Art: Enduring Sculptural Works, Limerick, 2010 (a Deiseal project)
(work in progress)
[ ALIVENESS MACHINES ]
landscapes-datascapes
[ WEATHER-PROOFS ]
climate + deep-time geopoetics
[ WATER DREAMINGS ]
myths, metaphors and eco-cultural explorations
"Our knowledge of nature and how it works is based on observations. What if we can't see everything? What might we be missing out on? There could be a 'hidden world' out there"
James Wells, CERN, on the search for the Higgs bosun
Urban cycle route transformation, Bristol, 2011 (direction/imagineer)
eco-design, consultancy, writings
DIGGING
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Brandhall School, 2010
[a NOVA Creative Lab project]
[ DESIGN: PLACE + LANDSCAPE ]
SUBMERGED (Drowned Lands): A Long View
Installation works in production, 2014-17
Somerset Levels, England
[ SLOW TRACKS + PATHWAYS ]
movements, mobility, journeys
Geopoetic sound-work/intermedia residency at Binaural-Nodar, Portugal, 2013
[ OUT OF PLACE ]
layerings, mappings, delvings
"It's not easy to see things in the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes."
Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
"Art and science are both manifestations of the human drive for knowledge; they provide their practitioners with a feeling of resonant connection to the complex processes that underlie our environment. And though they ultimately express a different view of the universe, they aren’t mutually exclusive—rather, they mirror each other in fantastically interesting ways. We live in a moment of unprecedented change in the way that both art and science are practiced, and those changes are happening in parallel with one another. How we adapt, collaborate, and express our changing environment may ultimately reconcile the “two cultures” and turn us on to a new level of engagement with our hyper-sensory, interconnected, and evolving world."
the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, 2011
LAB2 / PEAT-Land-ing
Creative Research, in progress
more soon
SABRINA DREAMING (Severn Estuary Tidelands)
Creative-Research Residency, with CCRI,
University of Gloucestershire, 2014-
An independent creative practitioner working in England and Ireland. With a background in eco/geo-sciences and landscape design, many of my projects are concerned with ecological processes, environmental change and nature-culture relationships. Areas of particular focus include coastal/river settings, deep-time perspectives, routes/journeys and intangible cultural narratives. Research and production methods rely on creative fieldwork and geopoetic assemblages of sculptural materials, archives, field-recordings and conversations - developed in the context of both 'slow' and 'intensive' artist-residencies. Creative works include film, sound and intermedia installations, obliquely communicating tensions, traces, transitions and environmental justice.
Water is often central. Flow is the key; the flux of continual exchange. Sensitive Chaos.
Current work includes projects delving into, and juxtaposing, liminal land-water spaces, nature-culture heritage challenges and eco-social perspectives relating to rewilding and novel ecosystems. This brings together scenarios of land abandonment, ecological recovery, rising coastal waters and the intentional submergence of lands by constructed dams/reservoirs. I also work with academic teams, exploring the braiding of creative and research strategies.
Some of my projects come under the banner of NOVA
LIMBO LANDSCAPE LAB/ CLAY-Land-ing
Creative Research/ installation
ESI, Wheal Martyn & Heritage Futures, Cornwall, 2018
Geopoetic explorations/ installation
National Trust & Heritage Futures, 2019
