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.

Sue Palmer

by art.earth | August 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 Sue Palmer. Sue is presenting a performance at...

In conversation with Caroline Hickman

by art.earth | November 12, 2021 | Borrowed Time, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

Join us for the last in the series of events that have been Borrowed Time: on death, dying & change. As Borrowed Time’s final event, we mark the tenth Remembrance Day for Lost Species returning us to the predicament of accelerating ecological loss that gave birth...

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.

First Friday, November 1

by art.earth | October 14, 2019 | First Friday, Past events | 0 Comments

The next First Friday takes place at Dartington Space on November 1. Hosted by Mark Leahy, the invited guest is poet Tony Lopez. In 2017 English poet Tony Lopez and Chilean photographer Ignacio Acosta collaborated on an investigation of the 18th and 19th century...

The Home & The World 2012

by art.earth | September 3, 2013 | Conference 2012 | 0 Comments

This site will be the home for the conference publication. Watch this space.

A watery June

by art.earth | December 21, 2017 | Our Events, Primary, Short Course, Summit | 0 Comments

A Watery June This year we're celebrating water and the state of being fluid. We'll be at it all year in one way or another, but June is where it all comes together. Why not come and spend the entire month with us? First, we host the UK's first Global...

Susan Derges

by art.earth | September 1, 2020 | 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 response from that artist to some questions and a discussion, together with some examples of their work. This month’s (September 2020) selected artist is...

Phil Smith mytho-walk

by art.earth | May 10, 2016 | Past events | 0 Comments

May 29, 14.00 - 16.30 Mythogeographer Phil Smith leads a walk around a part of the Dartington Hall Estate addressing multiple layers of history, ecology, performance and personal associations. Phil addresses different ways in which the Estate has stood in for,...

March 2021: Katie Taylor

by art.earth | March 1, 2021 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

Each month a member of the art.earth Board of Directors selects a member to feature, to become our Artist of the Month. What follows is a response from that artist to some questions and a discussion, together with some examples of their work. This month (March 2021)...

Susanna Bauer exhibition

by art.earth | February 20, 2016 | Artwork, News, Our Events | 0 Comments

'Leaf Works' Innovation Centre, Exeter University March 1 to May 26, 2016 Susanna Bauer’s leaf works pay homage to nature as well as holding up a mirror to the viewer. Mainly constructed with dry leaves and cotton yarn the pieces hold a fine balance of fragility and...