art.earth | a family of ecological artists and organisations

art.earth is now art.earth Books

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.

Anna Kirk-Smith

by art.earth | April 1, 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. April 2018 Anna Kirk-Smith www.annakirksmith.com Thoughts about...

Transcribing Landscape

by art.earth | September 10, 2017 | coming soon, Our Events | 0 Comments

Coming in 2018, a short course led by poet Fiona Benson and art.earth's Richard Povall. First offered in 2016 as a Schumacher College short course, this refreshed version will have a distinctly art.earth flavour. If this is of interest please email us or join the...

Common Salt – a performance around a table

by art.earth | September 22, 2018 | Our Events, Special | 0 Comments

Both performances are now SOLD OUT art.earth presents Sheila Ghelani and Sue Palmer in COMMON SALT Ship Studio at Dartington Hall, September 28 2018 This is an intimate performance with very limited tickets. Common Salt will be performed at 18:00 and again...

First Friday, October 4

by art.earth | September 24, 2019 | First Friday, Past events | 0 Comments

Next week it's First Friday (October 4). First Fridays happen on the first Friday of every month, except January and August. First Fridays is a gathering place for artists or anyone interested in the arts, an opportunity to share food and talk. Each month, after...

Poetry of the Wild

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

Poetry of the Wild/ Mapping the Soul of Communities with Poetry and Art Ana Flores Find tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stone and good in everything. Read the full paper

Exhibition: Evolving the Forest

by art.earth | June 18, 2019 | Our Events, Past events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

Evolving the ForestWednesday June 19 to Wednesday September 4, 2019 Dartington Space Gallery and the Green Table CaféThe essential spirit of the coming-together of voices, thoughts and opinion to the annual gatherings at Dartington convened by art.earth is...

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 ...

In conversation with…Sophie Strand

by art.earth | September 1, 2021 | Borrowed Time, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

In the next in our series of Borrowed Time conversations, we introduce American writer Sophie Strand. Sophie is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Give her a salamander and a stone and she’ll write you a love story. Sophie was raised by house cats, puff balls, possums, raccoons, and an opinionated, crippled goose. In every neighborhood she’s ever lived in she has been known as “the walker”. She believes strongly that all thinking happens interstitially – between beings, ideas, differences, mythical gradients.

Workshop: We gather at the river with our Bone Songs

by art.earth | February 24, 2018 | Our Events, Recent, Short Course | 0 Comments

April 6-8 2018 Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL, UK with performance artist / cultural geographer Christos Galanis from 17.00 on Friday April 6 to 16.00 on Sunday April 8 an art.earth Short Course We gather at the river with our Bone...

First Friday, April 1

by art.earth | February 22, 2022 | First Friday, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

April’s First Friday takes place on April 1 starting at 13.00GMT/UTC+00. Guest artists are Adriana Minu a composer currently a Doctoral Researcher at University of Glasgow, writer and visual artist Samantha Clark who lives and works on Orkney and Giulia Mattera a performance artist from Rome.