antony lyons / student of landscape
~ geopoetics, deep-time fascinations
~ film & videosonic sculptural installations
~ eco-social explorations, collaborations and writings
[ ONGOING 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
* LINK TO BE ADDED *
(Trail and Slow Residency)
Ireland, ongoing
Amuigh Faoin Spéir
* LINK TO BE ADDED *
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 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-Sensitive Water Design, SUDS etc
eco-design, consultancy, writings
Digging
* LINK TO BE ADDED *
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 + SACRED WAYS ]
movements, mobility, journeys
Sound-work/intermedia residency at Binaural-Nodar, Portugal, 2013
[ OUT OF PLACE ]
layerings, mappings, explorations
"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-
As an independent creative practitioner with a background in eco/geo-sciences and landscape design, many of my projects are concerned with the relationships between ecological processes, environmental change and cultural adaptations. Areas of particular focus include coastal/river landscapes, deep-time (geological) perspectives, routes/journeys and intangible cultural vitality. My research and production methods rely on geopoetic creative fieldwork and experimental remixing of materials, archives, field-recordings and contemporary narratives - explored in the context of both 'slow' and 'intensive' artist-residencies. Resulting works include sculpture, film, sound and intermedia installations - addressing tensions, traces, transitions and environmental justice.
Water is central. The future is in flux.
Current work includes projects delving into, and juxtaposing, liminal land-water spaces, heritage futures and eco-social perspectives relating to water. This brings together scenarios of rising tidal waters and the intentional submergence of lands by constructed dams/reservoirs. I am also working with groups of universities, assisting with the braiding of creative and research strategies, providing parallax views of eco-cultural situations.
Some of my projects are taken forward under the banner of NOVA
