art.earth | a family of ecological artists and organisations

the art.earth archive

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.

We were best known for our international symposia which included:

Language, Landscape & The Sublime (2016) (see programme)
Feeding the Insatiable (2016) (see programme)
In Other Tongues (2017) (see programme) (publication)
Liquidscapes (2018) (see progeamme) (publication)
Evloving the Forest (2019) (see programme) (publication)
Borrowed Time (2020 and 2021) (publication)
Sentient Performativities (2022) (see programme)

In addition we offered short courses, artist residencies and artist support
and for a number of years ran a gallery at Dartington Hall.

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 read some of the many responses to our farewell message.

We’d like to say a huge thank you to all who were involved as part of the art.earth family

and to everyone who took part or engaged with us.

Below is a random sample of posts from our activities.

This includes our Artist of the Month series, First Fridays, our symposia, exhibitions and more.

Borrowed Time: on death, dying & change

by art.earth | December 9, 2019 | Borrowed Time, Our Events, Past events, Recent, Summit | 0 Comments

Borrowed Time: on death, dying & change Online, October 31 to November 3, 2021 (and at other times throughout 2021) What constitutes ‘a good death’? How do we know death, personally? What room do we make for the dead – within our relationships, our ways of...

Tasting the Change: residency

by art.earth | August 6, 2019 | Our Events, Past events | 0 Comments

Art-Science hothouse residency: Tasting the change Saturday November 9 to Thursday November 14 2019 In November 2019 CCANW and Science Walden are hosting an Art-Science hothouse residency, a week of experimentation and conversation about working across disciplines for...

First Friday, April 2021

by art.earth | March 11, 2021 | First Friday, Our Events | 0 Comments

First Fridays are our monthly series of informal artist get-togethers where the conversation may stray from the triassic to contemporary reusable plastics — and just about anywhere in between.The sessions last about an hour and are friendly and informal. Participants...

April 2022: Marlene Creates

by art.earth | April 1, 2022 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

Each month one of the art.earth Board of Directors selects an artist from the membership because they are particularly taken with their work. This month our Featured Artist is Newfoundland artist Marlene Creates chosen by Walter Lewis. To accompany this feature,...

First (2nd actually!) Friday January 8

by art.earth | December 2, 2020 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

Exhibition: Orbis Terrarum

by art.earth | July 12, 2017 | Our Events, Past events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

An exhibition of work by local artists Rachael Allain, Margaret Harland and Charlotte Price. The artists explore the unacknowledged qualities of landscape reflecting those interfaces between water, land, path and field. There is a constant endeavour to portray the...

the impossible gaze of the ecological subject

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

the impossible gaze of the ecological subject Alex Murdin We are now living in the Athropocene. This informal term, coined in 2000 by Paul Crutzen is now common currency amongst scientists and describes the current time period in the geological scale where...

Jess Allen

by art.earth | October 2, 2018 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

Each month one of our Directors chooses an art.earth member to become ‘Artist of the Month’. What follows is a conversation with that artist, together with some examples of his or her work. This month's selected artist is Jess Allen, selected by Minou...

Elli Lestas (Cyprus)

by art.earth | April 30, 2020 | FFartwork-old | 0 Comments

Elli Lestas was born in London, raised in Bromley, studied textiles at Camberwell College of Art and MA Fine art at Goldsmiths. Now based in Cyprus, she became involved in horticulture specializing in seed germination. After a long break returned to her art in 2012...

First keynote announced for Borrowed Time

by art.earth | January 28, 2020 | News, Our Events, Summit | 0 Comments

We're delighted to announce the first keynote event at Borrowed Time, a Butoh-inspired performance by Paul Michael Henry. Paul Michael Henry is a Scottish performance artist, dancer and musician. His work is informed by Butoh dance, punk rock and ritual, and is...