Nicholas Holt is an artist using photography to focus on our relationship with nature. His projects encompass a variety of physical and conceptual terrain against the backdrop of a rapidly changing environment. His work is characterised by a balance of rigorous conceptualism and a distinctly personal vision.

Following his career as a commercial art director, he graduated with an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the University of Arts London (2022). After a period as the UAL AER artist in residence at the Joya: arte + ecología, in Spain, making work based around aridity, he exhibited at the Groundwork Gallery as part of the UAL Art for the Environment Exhibition in 2024. He was awarded the TPA/Royal Photographic Society Environmental Bursary, to continue his work with communities living on arid land in Senegal.

He is a founding member collective 454, an international group of environmental photographers. He also finds great value in connecting with artists and writers from different disciplines and is a member of the Groundwork Gallery Network.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

D. H. Lawrence

After a solo residency at the Montello Foundation in the wilderness of Nevada in 2024, he has is currently investigating the psychological space between the human and the non-human: exploring intuitive, unmediated states in nature. Inspired by Carl Jung’s ideas on the primordial mind, D.H Lawrence’s philosophy of ‘blood consciousness”. He is looking for ways to bring his Zen walking meditation practice closer to his art practice. He ascribes to John Cage’s maxim of art as self-alteration as opposed to self-expression. 

His work has been exhibited internationally at The Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, Arles Open Walls, the Groundwork Gallery, PINK in Manchester. Magazine features include The Royal Photographic Society Journal, Source Magazine, SUITCASE Magazine, Geographical Magazine, and Echtrai Journal.