antony lyons
~ artist; creative explorations
~ video-sonic-photo installations
~ geopoetics, deep-mappings, communities, place, landscape
~ a laboratory; testing out(side); peering in(side)
[ PROJECTS 2004-2020 ]
Detail from printed work installation - Quantock Dreaming, 2008
[ THE NEW IMAGINARIUM ]
Recent meshes of cultural and ecological relationships: landscapes, people, commons, materials, intangibles
Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol, 2008
Creative Slow Residency, Quantock Hills, Somerset, 2007-8
Sheffield, 2009-10
Creativity & Urban Regeneration
[A NOVA Creative Lab project]
Sheffield, 2011, Public Art
[A NOVA Creative Lab project, linked to Green Ribbons Network]
LOUGH GUR NEXUS
* LINK /CONTENT TO BE ADDED *
(Trail and Slow Residency)
Ireland, ongoing
Amuigh Faoin Spéir
* LINK/CONTENT TO BE ADDED *
Public Art Commission
Dooish School, Donegal 2011
(work in progress)
[ ALIVENESS MACHINES ]
landscapes+datascapes
[ WEATHER-PROOFS ]
climate + deep-time geopoetics
"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
[ DESIGN: PLACE + LANDSCAPE ]
[ SLOW TRACKS + PATHWAYS ]
movements, mobility, journeys
Geopoetic sound-work/intermedia residency at Binaural-Nodar, Portugal, 2013
CO-CREATIVE TEAMS
new perspectives, recombinations, collaborations, liminal settings and sonic alchemies
[ DEISEAL ]
Ireland - ancient echoes : new vibes
[ OUT OF PLACE ]
layerings, mappings, delvings, fossickings
"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
PEAT-Land-ing
Creative Research, in progress
more soon
With a background in eco/geo-sciences and landscape design, many of my projects are concerned with ecological processes, environmental change and nature-society relationships. Areas of particular focus include coastal/river settings, deep-time perspectives, routes/journeys and questions around land, place, belonging. Research and production methods rely on creative fieldwork and geopoetic assemblages of sculptural materials, archives, field-recordings and many many conversations - developed in the context of both 'slow' and 'intensive' artist-residencies. Creative works include film-poems, sound and intermedia installations, obliquely communicating tensions, transitions and traces.
Water is often central. Flow is the key; the flux of continual exchange. Sensitive Chaos.
Current work includes projects delving into liminal land-water spaces, nature-culture challenges, eco-social perspectives relating to the shared commons, (re)wilding & novel ecosystems and explorations into what it means to dwell. This brings together cross-cultural imaginations, 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 projects are carried out with NOVA Creative Lab
Creative Research Residency & installation
Wheal Martyn Museum, Cornwall, 2018
Geopoetic explorations & installation
National Trust & Heritage Futures, 2019
Public Art: Enduring Sculptural Works, Limerick, 2010 (a Deiseal project)
[ WATER DREAMINGS ]
myths, metaphors and eco-cultural explorations
An evolving film-poem project, 2015-18
Part of 'Submerged (Drowned Lands)'
SUBMERGED (Drowned Lands): A Long View
Installation works in production, 2014-17
Somerset Levels, England
SABRINA DREAMING (Severn Estuary Tidelands)
Creative-Research Residency, with CCRI,
University of Gloucestershire, 2014-
Artist Residency, Elan Valley, Wales, 2020
& participation in Ten Acres Of Sound, Birmingham, 2020