art.earth | a family of ecological artists and organisations

art.earth closed in January 2023 • this is an archive site

art.earth was a family of artists dedicated to making art that looks out to the world and believing that art enriches the world and makes it a better place.

You can read our message of farewell and explore the archive –
a treasure trove of events, happenings, exhibitions and other stuff that art.earth did with its wonderful family from 2016 to 2023. Visit our YouTube channel.

You can still purchase our publications. Books while stocks last + eBooks.

You can also read some of the many responses to our farewell message.

A huge thank you all who participated and otherwise engaged with us. The world still needs you!

Publication: The Ephemeral River

by art.earth | July 15, 2019 | News, Our Events, Past events, Special | 0 Comments

In the summer of 2018 art.earth produced a special event for the Centre for Contemporary Art & the Natural World (CCANW), Yatoo (S. Korea) and Science Walden (S. Korea). This extraordinarily beautiful and art-rich book is the result (and is only available in print...

Postgraduate Forum: Extinction

by art.earth | October 18, 2021 | Borrowed Time, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

In collaboration with our good colleagues at Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School we are offering a postgraduate forum as part of Borrowed Time. Wednesday 3 November 2021, 09.15-16.00 GMT Keynote: Mirko Nikolić Extinction is an online postgraduate symposium...

Yan Wang Preston

by art.earth | February 10, 2020 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

Each month (or thereabouts!) one of the art.earth Directors chooses an artist-member to be featured as Artist of the Month. This month's featured artist, selected by Richard Povall, is Yan Wang Preston Header image: Making the red line (Yangtze River, China, 2011) ...

Exhibition: A Quiet Collaboration

by art.earth | September 25, 2018 | Our Events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

October 19-31 2018 Dartington Space Gallery (formerly the Garden Room Gallery) Artists Sara Downham-Lotto and Stacey Righton show work which has been influenced by the use of natural materials in collaborations and explorations with others. For Sara, the work is a...

Kinship Workshop with Katye Coe & Tom Goodwin

by Minou Polleros | April 7, 2022 | Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

Sunday 26th June 2022 9:30 - 16:00 / Dartington Hall Estate/Outdoors/Along the river Dart £40/ A woman with red hair and dark blue clothes leans back horizontally onto a collection of large moss-covered rocks at the edge of a river. She pushes her feet into the rocks...

Short Course: Embodying the Line

by art.earth | September 10, 2017 | Our Events, Recent, Short Course | 0 Comments

Monday May 21 @ 14.30 to Friday May 25 @ 16.00 Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL, UK an art.earth Residential Short Course with poet Alyson Hallett and dance artist Deborah Black and guest artist Phil Smith Embodying the Line: writing, movement...

Christiane’s Make Do & Mend Soup

by art.earth | April 24, 2020 | Recipes | 0 Comments

Make do and Mend Soup from Christiane Berghoff 1 onion¼ celeriac1parsnip2 carrots1 Stalk of a broccoli1 big slice of a butternut squash1 leek ( I often use the green parts in soups and use the white otherwise)1-3 glove of garlic, to your taste½ cup of pearl barley ...

The Ecological Vision That Will Save Us

by art.earth | April 23, 2020 | Essays & other writing | 0 Comments

from our friends at Nautil.us The Ecological Vision That Will Save Us To avoid the next pandemic, we need a reckoning with our place in nature. The marquee on my closed neighborhood movie theater reads, “See you on the other side.” I like reading it every day as I...

First Friday, February 1

by art.earth | January 21, 2019 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events | 0 Comments

First Fridays happen on the first Friday of every month, except January - so this is the first gathering of 2019. First Fridays is a gathering place for artists or anyone interested in the arts, an opportunity to share food and talk. Each month, after lunch, there is...

The art and politics of forests

by art.earth | October 8, 2013 | Artists, Artwork, Conference 2012 | 0 Comments

Deep Sustainability and the Art & Politics of Forests Cathy Fitzgerald (NZ/Ireland) www.ecoartfilm.com Abstract This article describes the work in forest policy development and contemporary arts practice of New Zealander, Irish based experimental film-maker...