Ysanne Holt

Ysanne Holt is Professor in Art History at the University of Northumbria. Her research focus is British art from the end of the nineteenth century to the present, and she has contributed to a number of related networks, archival projects and exhibitions in regional and national museums and galleries. She was also founding editor of the Routledge journal Visual Culture in Britain. She is particularly concerned with imaginings and representations of landscapes and rural environments and her publications include the monograph British Artists and the Modernist Landscape (Ashgate, 2003) and The Geographies of Englishness: Landscape and the National Past, 1880-1940, co-edited with David Peters Corbett and Fiona Russell (Yale, 2002). Recent concerns have been with the landscapes of the rural north, especially islands and border regions and these include her Visual Culture in the Northern UK Archipelago: Imagining Islands, (Routledge, 2018), co-edited with David Martin Jones and Owain Jones. She currently completing a monograph on the entangled interrelations between artists and the material resources of the Anglo-Scottish borders from the inter-war period to the present day.