Holt works on view in "Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape" at RAMM

October 31, 2024

Works by Nancy Holt are currently on view in the exhibition Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape at RAMM—Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery in Exeter, England.

In September of 1969 Nancy Holt traveled throughout England and Wales with Robert Smithson and both artists created artworks inspired by the landscape on their journey. While visiting Wistman's Wood in Dartmoor, Nancy Holt created two artworks: the photowork Trail Markers, which shows a series of orange dots used to navigate a path to Wistman's Wood, and the photo composite Wistman's Wood, which shows the place Holt created her first Buried Poem for Robert Smithson, are both on view in the exhibition through February 23, 2025.

One of the programs during the run of the exhibition features Holt/Smithson Foundation Research Fellow Joy Sleeman in conversation with artist Ashish Ghadiali on Wednesday, February 12. Joy Sleeman has written on Holt's Trail Markers and her time in the UK for our Scholarly Text Program in the essay "Nancy Holt Trail Markers (1969) or, the walk from Wistman’s Wood."

Learn more about the Holt artworks in the exhibition on our website and learn about the other artists in this group exhibition on the RAMM website.

Installation view: Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape, RAMM—Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, England, 2024
Featuring Nancy Holt's Trail Markers (1969)
Photograph: Simon Tutty
Image courtesy RAMM

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