@tonyhumbleyard.bsky.social
Sculptor and post consumer artist, working with foraged materials,exploring deeplistening and the possibilities of regenerative art. https://axisweb.org/artist/tonyhumbleyard
Stone and the Song of Silence (work in progress)
To the North the crystal of non knowledge
a landscape to be invented
to the South, reflective memory
to the East, the mirror
to the West, stone and the song of silence
I wrote messages, but received no reply.
Octavia Paz
Introvert- resisting the attention economy…..
(work in progress)
“To do nothing is to hold yourself still so that you can perceive what is actually there. “Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Skin Deep - Work in progress
another image for the 'Sculpt' series, of long exposure photographic prints.
Reconnecting to natural rhythms, the tides, light and dark, rain and sun. Adaptation, resilience, wellbeing.
Realising a visceral quality of time, lost to us in minutes, hours and years. We move from linear to cyclical time, an embodied memory unfolding……
Majorcans will stage a demonstration on 5 April, demanding housing crisis solutions. The greed & avarice of hoteliers, politicians, real estate investors, & parasites have deteriorated the island’s ecosystem, overloaded public services, & triggered gentrification. www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...
04.04.2025 22:11 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Plastic Boardwalk and Interpretation Board-Hermaness Shetland Isles.
Atlantic Edge
There are other Narratives...
The overuse of signage and interpretation boards,limit our understanding and experience of place.
The fierce urgency of imagination in an increasingly corporate world.
'Dissident voices echo in the wind, an invocation of the sacred places,where Ocean touches Land'
Plastic Boardwalk and Interpretation Board-Hermaness Shetland Isles.
Atlantic Edge
There are other Narratives...
The overuse of signage and interpretation boards,limit our understanding and experience of place.
The fierce urgency of imagination in an increasingly corporate world.
'Dissident voices echo in the wind, an invocation of the sacred places,where Ocean touches Land'
Foraging an immersive practice: Peat ash paint/monoprinting with Kelp/the weave of Couch grass/these are a few of my favourite things......
13.03.2025 20:14 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
During February, artist Katrina Cowling presented a curated selection titled ‘Embodied Knowledge: Knowing from the Inside'. Included in this selection is 'augury', 2011, by Tony Humbleyard. See more of Tony's work here: buff.ly/Q5VmLau
10.03.2025 12:03 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The endless fascination of stones on a beach, low tide at Burrafirth......
24.02.2025 08:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SCULPT(work in progress)
The liminal Spaces of the body/bone/muscle/skin/sculpting form with light and shadow......
Rain patterns on Galvanised steel (work in progress).
27.01.2025 10:38 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
62 trees -I leave only this…….(a work in progress)
62 trees take root/ a regenerative act / each tree a life lived in this place /voices in the wind/echoes of the cleared/broken hearths/abandoned cru’s/walking/ carrying/ planting….
A landscape of light and water/walking the tidelines/trusting to our own desire paths.........
17.01.2025 07:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
