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.

Feeding the Insatiable | Nov 2016

by art.earth | November 20, 2016 | Past events | 0 Comments

9 - 11 November 2016, Dartington Hall Feeding the Insatiable featured thinkers and creatives from across the world, with an opening keynote event from The Land Art Generator Initiative (Robert Ferry and Elizabeth Monoian) with ecoartist / producer Chris...

A Dartington Outing

by art.earth | September 7, 2017 | Our Events, Past events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

A special exhibition in the Garden Room Gallery from September 22-28. Woven into Dartington's past and present, and that of our wider society and culture, are the lives of a host of LGBTQ people, families and communities – lives that have ranged, and still do, from...

Short courses in April and May

by art.earth | March 5, 2018 | coming soon, News, Our Events, Short Course | 0 Comments

In the next few months we are offering a number of short courses which may be of interest. All our courses are run on the Dartington estate, a medieval rural estate in southwest England encircled by the River Dart. We use the estate as our studio, our...

John Fox & Sue Gill (Cumbria)

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

John Fox and partner Sue Gill are legendary community theatre pioneers formerly of Welfare State International. Now they together run Dead Good Guides, an artist-led company seeking a role for art that weaves it more fully into the fabric of our lives. John told us:...

First Friday November 3

by art.earth | October 6, 2017 | First Friday, Our Events | 0 Comments

Andrew Stacey: Blockages and stuckages First Fridays take place on the first Friday of every month, except January. First Friday 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...

Meet-the-artist June 9

by art.earth | June 3, 2017 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events | 0 Comments

We had a truly excellent conversation at First Friday 2 June 2017 with Jan O'Highway guest artist. Nick Hart-Davies says: "It was a first for me - a really interesting talk about art!" There's another opportunity to meet Jan at a meet-the-artist reception at the...

Annique Goldenberg

by art.earth | October 31, 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 Antique Goldenberg, selected by Richard Povall...

Polly Morgan, May 6

by art.earth | April 26, 2016 | First Friday, Our Events | 0 Comments

After the First Friday lunch on May 6, artist Polly Morgan will talk about her extraordinary contemporary taxidermy: stunning sculptural objects that revere and seem sometimes fearful of the animals and birds whose bodies she uses in her work. BOOK HERE (free) Polly...

Tom Baskeyfield

by art.earth | January 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. January 2018 Tom Baskeyfield www.tombaskeyfield.co.uk Is...

First Friday, August 5

by art.earth | July 8, 2022 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

First Fridays are our informal gatherings/sharings, open to all. They started life as a physical place to meet up for a shared lunch followed by a live or occasionally remote presentation by an artist or group. Since May 2020 we have been gathering online which has...