antony lyons
~ environmental artist
~ creative ecological explorations and interpretations
~ video+sonic+photo installations and geopoetic assemblages
~ organic, emergent dialogues with communities, landscapes, eco-scapes & work-scapes
~ experimental visual poems & creative documentaries
~ deep-mapping, kinaesthetics and ecological kinships
[ PROJECTS ]
2004-2021
[ THE LAND IMAGINARIUM ]
Meshes of cultural and ecological transition and recovery: landscapes, biota, communities, tangible & intangible heritage
Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol, 2008
Creative Slow Residency, Quantock Hills, Somerset (Eng), 2007-8
collaboration with poet, Ralph Hoyte
Sheffield (Eng) 2009-10
Creativity Strategy for
Urban Regeneration
[A NOVA Creative Lab project]
THE BOGLE Experience (Silver Path)
Site-Specific Installation & Performance
Grizedale Forest & Sculpture Trail, Cumbria (Eng), 2004
Sheffield (Eng), 2011, Public Art Works
[A NOVA Creative Lab project, linked to Green Ribbons Network]
Amuigh Faoin Spéir
* LINK/CONTENT TO BE ADDED *
Public Art Commission
Dooish School, Donegal (Ire) 2011
Competition Runner-Up Entry
Shrewsbury (Eng), 2008
[a NOVA Creative Lab project]
(work in progress)
[ ALIVENESS MACHINES ]
landscapes+datascapes+ecology
[ WEATHER-PROOFS ]
land, climate + deep-time geopoetics
Ecology, Technology, Community, Schools
UNESCO North Devon Biosphere Reserve, 2011-12. Collaboration
"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, eco-consultancy, writings
[ ECO-DESIGN:
PLACE + LANDSCAPE ]
[ SLOW TRACKS + PATHWAYS ]
movements, journeys, entanglements
Geopoetic sound-work/intermedia residency at Binaural-Nodar, Portugal, 2013
Rural Arts
CO-CREATIVE COLLECTIVES
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-ings
Creative Research, in progress
more details soon
Many of my projects are explorations of ecology, places/habitats and nature-culture flows. Working in transitional landscapes that are experiencing environmental and social changes, my interests lie in activating fresh insights, understandings and possibilities. Sites and situations include the liminal water landscapes of rivers and coasts, the shared commons, routes/journeys/migrations, (re)wilding and ecological restoration areas. My eco-social projects are often collaborations and partnerships, harnessing the dynamic between 'insider' and 'outsider' perspectives to weave together past, present and future imaginations. Co-creation with musicians and poets forms a key aspect.
With a background in eco/geo-sciences and landscape studies, my creative practice is a hybrid geopoetic one, braiding art and science approaches. Concepts of flow and deep-time are central, as is the importance of cross-cultural and intergenerational exchange - fluxes of knowledge, power, stories and metaphor. Research and production methods rely on extensive on-the-ground site explorations, conversations and the assembling of field-recordings, sculptural materials, archives, and other findings. Resulting works include film-poems, sound and sculptural installations, developed in the context of artist-in-residence (or artist-in-dialogue) commissions. In the fields of heritage, geography and environmental humanities, I have also worked extensively with academic teams, experimenting with the braiding of artistic and more formal research strategies.
Some projects are carried out in the context of the NOVA Creative Lab
Creative Research Residency & installation
Wheal Martyn Museum, Cornwall, 2018
Lead Artist - Senior Creative Fellow
International, 2015-2019
Creative research, documentation, residencies
Artist residency & installation works
National Trust & Heritage Futures, 2019
Creative Research, Public Art Sculptural Works, Limerick County (Ire), 2010 (a Deiseal project)
Exploratory Creative-Research Residency
& video works, Grand Canyon, USA, 2011
[ WATER DREAMINGS ]
flows, visual poetics and eco-cultural explorations
An evolving film-poem project, 2015-19
Part of the 'Submerged (Drowned Lands)'project
WILD WATERS, HIDDEN WATERS & HYDROCITIZENSHIP
Lead Artist, creative research
AHRC & Nova Creative Lab/Bristol
SUBMERGED (Drowned Lands): A Long View
Collaborative research for installation works
in the Somerset Levels, England
SABRINA DREAMING (Severn Estuary Tidelands)
Creative-Research Artist Residency, with CCRI,
University of Gloucestershire (Eng), 2014-16
LONG EXPOSURE & Ten Acres of Sound
Artist Residency, Elan Valley, Wales, 2020-21
& participation in Ten Acres Of Sound, Birmingham, 2020
Detail from print-on-fabric installation piece - Quantock Dreaming, 2008
[ NEW: HERE COMMONS EVERYBODY ]
Land+Commons+Future Visions project, 2021-22
Working with multiple partners, associates and locations. Co-funded by CCRI and Arts Council England. Launcing April 2021. Themes of culture, ecology and land equity. Films and installation.
