Peter Holliday is a Scottish visual artist & writer working between photography, the environmental humanities and field-based practice.

Peter’s work engages with themes of landscape perception and the memory of place. Combining image and text, his research draws on eco-phenomenological themes to explore the relationship between topography and consciousness.

Having been exhibited internationally in countries including Iceland, Italy and Finland with presentations at leading institutions such as the Saatchi Gallery (2025) and the Reykjavík Museum of Photography (2015), his work is held in permanent collections including the Glasgow School of Art Archives & Collections and Helsinki University Hospital.

In 2022, Peter was an artist-in-residence aboard The Arctic Circle Artist & Scientist Residency Program in Svalbard. In 2024, he was nominated for the British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Humanity award before being named as a finalist of the Paris Photo Prize. In 2025, his work was featured as part of the Royal Photographic Society’s International Photography Exhibition.

In addition to his creative practice, Peter hosts The Land Behind, a podcast dedicated to questions on art, philosophy and the environment. Guests to date include the anthropologist Tim Ingold, the photographer Sian Davey, the environmental ethicist Ted Toadvine and the phenomenologist Alphonso Lingis.

An alumnus of Glasgow School of Art, in 2022 Peter earned his MA in Photography from Aalto University School of Arts, Design & Architecture in Helsinki.