Ysanne Holt

Ysanne Holt is Emerita Professor in Art History at Northumbria University. She has longstanding interests in the visual and material culture of the UK north, most especially in its rural environments. Related publications include ‘Place on the Border and the LYC Museum and Art Gallery,’ The Routledge Handbook on Place, 2020 and Co-editor, with David Martin Jones and Owain Jones, Visual Culture in the Northern UK Archipelago: Imagining Islands, 2018. She is currently completing her monograph, ‘Dark skies, bogs and watery borders’ on the entangled interrelations between forms of cultural and creative practice and the material resources of the Anglo-Scottish border region.