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Humongous v. Jonny Lyons

Jonny Lyons

Jonny Lyons, Stealing a Mirror (2020). Giclée print on Hahnemühle 308gsm Photo Rag Acidfree Archival paper, two parts, edition of 10. Courtesy Ingleby Gallery.

Lyons’s practice explores the fragility of friendship and adventure through performances documented by photography and film. He creates ingenious and mischievous devices which are presented – having fulfilled their one purpose – as relics of the event, together with the photographic evidence. The photographs, however, are not simply documentation of a sequence of anarchic events. They fix the moment between ’cause’ and ‘effect’ and are imbued with wit, melancholy and the physical humour of early silent cinema. In this process Lyons attempts to reconcile the enthusiasm of reckless youth with the pressures of adulthood; these are snap-shots of ‘Lost Boys’ putting outlandish ideas into practice and (just) getting away with it.

The Re-Up

New site showing my art work and photography 

                                                            You stay close and you sit tight                                             Don’t be so faraway tonight                                         I may be bad and I may be wrong                                    But you know I won’t stay this way for long