Part of The Holt Bookshop’s 6th Birthday celebrations!
In the 1960s young artists on both sides of the Atlantic turned away from the gallery and went out into the landscape
to make a revolutionary new type of art.
Encompassing a wide range of practices and including elements of sculpture, performance, photography and conceptual art, Land art continues to be an important global movement. Indeed, in a time of climate crisis this form of art, which prioritizes attentiveness to and immersion in landscape, nature and environment, feels more significant than ever. Ben Tufnell and Amanda Geitner will discuss the contemporary relevance of Land art, taking in key figures including Richard Long, Hamish Fulton, David Nash and the late great Roger Ackling, who was based for much of his life in Norfolk.
Dr Amanda Geitner is currently Director of the East Anglia Art Fund, and a Trustee of the Houghton Art Foundation and the Alfred Cohen Trust. Ben Tufnell is a writer and curator. He was a curator at Tate, Director of Exhibitions at Haunch of Venison and then Director of Parafin, and has published widely on modern and contemporary art. Particularly, on artforms that engage with ideas of landscape and nature