Concrete sun tunnels and shimmering pools of water: the monumental land art of Nancy Holt

Installed in deserts and along riverbanks, the late artist’s grand constructions underscored a fascination in the systems underpinning the Earth and the cosmos. Now she is receiving a first UK retrospective The two most prominent features of the 1960s and 70s art movement that became known as land art are the use of dramatic locations in the natural environment and monumental scale. Nancy Holt (1938-2014), one of the few women associated with the medium, and the subject of a new exhibition at...

By Nicholas Wroe