Tony Humbleyard

Poetic statements & Sculptural forms

My work engages with site and collaboration. exploring social, psychological and physical space. Unearthing  the 'UseHistories' of place and how they inform the urgencies of now .

i use random journeys, direct experience and the foraging of found materials. Constructing sculptures, interventions and poetic statements. Seeking out  patterns and continuities;  immersive  internal and external geographies. Exploring the perceptual landscapes that frame our actions in the world, conjurng form and narrative. 

‘Rock, fences, cloud and houses/ marks in a landscape/ looking for the continuities/ an alchemical gathering of found objects and direct experience/the space between thoughts/ liminal places/ dissident voices carried in the wind/ new ecologies ebb and flow….’

Abandoning guidebooks/maps/signs in favour of wandering/direct experience/immersive practices. In engaging with the past I don’t seek to romanticize it, but to see it as waymarker to possible futures. 

Reconnecting to natural rhythms, the tides, light and dark, rain and
sun. A practice that supports adaptation, resilience and wellbeing.
Realising a visceral quality of time, lost to us in minutes hours and
years. We move from linear time to cyclical time, an embodied
memory unfolding…… 

'At the edge we are caught in liminal space, the tension between what has gone before and what is to be..'

                                Elisabeth McCormack