antony lyons
~ environmental artist, based in the UK and Ireland
~ creative involvements with places of ecological and social recovery
~ video-sonic installations and geopoetic works
~ organic, emergent dialogues with communities and participants
~ film-poems and creative documentaries
~ deep-mapping, kinaesthetics and ecological kinships
[ PROJECTS ]
2004-2021
[ LANDSCAPES IN BETWEEN ]
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]
Competition Runner-Up Entry
Shrewsbury (Eng), 2008
[a NOVA Creative Lab project]
[ 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, nature-based solutions, eco-consultancy, writings
Recently featured in...
ENDANGERED LANDSCAPES Artist Residency begins
SARGASSO SISTERS Short Film selected for FIIN 2021 (Portugal)
INSIDE THE OUTSIDE (Lethality and Vulnerability)
ARTEFACT PROJECTS (Also Listening With My Eyes)
ARTICLE IN KONESH SPACE JOURNAL (Côa Valley)
ARTICLE IN STRAVAIG JOURNAL, No.8 (Riverrun)
[ 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
PEAT-Land-ings
Creative Research, in progress
more details soon
My projects are deep explorations of places, ecologies and nature-culture dynamics. Often working in the contexts of ‘transitions' in landscapes experiencing environmental and social changes, my interests lie in activating fresh insights, understandings and possibilities. I am drawn to the liminal water landscapes of rivers and coasts, the shared eco-commons, routes/journeys/pathways, (re)wilding situations and ecological restoration areas. My projects are usually collaborations and partnerships - conversations between 'insider' and 'outsider' perspectives that weave together past, present and future imaginations. I describe my practice as ‘geopoetic’. Co-creation with musicians and poets is a key feature.
With a background in eco/geo-sciences and landscape studies, my creative practice has a hybrid quality, 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, stories and metaphor. Research and production methods rely on extensive on-the-ground sensing, absorbing and then assembling field-recordings, sculptural materials, archives, and other findings. Resulting works can include film-poems, sound works and installation spaces, usually developed in the context of artist-in-residence situations. Creative research and writings also play a big part. I frequently collaborate with academic research teams, experimenting with transdisciplinary braidings of artistic and more formal research strategies.
Some collaborations 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
Participation in the 'Ten Acres Of Sound' Festival, Birmingham in 2020. 'Also Listening With My Eyes' installation (based on Elan Valley artist residency)
Detail from print-on-fabric installation work - Quantock Dreaming, 2008
[ new programme:
HERE COMMONS EVERYBODY ]
Land Futures+Eco-Commons partnership projects, 2021-
Working with multiple partners and locations. Pilot is co-funded by CCRI and Arts Council England. Themes of culture, ecology and land equity.
Artist-residency hosted by the Elan Links heritage programme. Four season investigations of land, water, farming, ecology, dams, pipes and more.
Artist-residency hosted by Rewilding Portugal and the Endangered Landscapes Programme. Investigations in preparation for a video-sonic 'Wild Coa Symphony'.
