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.

Lu La Buzz (Devon)

Clay HUGS - A gift from the Bovey Basin HUGS is a special type of clay known only to clay workers in the Bovey Basin. It occurs where two distinct seams of Ball Clay merge together and become one. The clay HUGS featured above, which I have dressed in orange ribbon to...

Exhibition: Illuminate

July 26 to September 5 in the Garden Room Gallery Closing reception: Friday August 31, 18.00 to 19.30 Abstract paintings by ArtsLab Director Sara Downham-Lotto made with, for and about music. Sara says: ‘What music can do is reinforce peoples’ belief in themselves. It...

John Fox & Sue Gill (Cumbria)

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:...

Short Course: Nita Little – 21stC Contact Improv

Thursday 30th June – Friday 1 July 2022  – Dartington Hall Estate / Space Studios / Studio 6Everyday: 9:30 – 17:30 We are really excited to have Nita Little all the way from the USA here in Devon for a 2 day Intensive at Dartington. Join us on this unique...

June 2022: Catherine Cartwright

Catherine Cartwright is our featured artist of the month. She is a painter / image maker who also has a community arts practice.

First Friday, May 5

In this month's First Friday, sound artists Tony Whitehead and Sarah Grey will be talking about their work in the landscape. Tony Whitehead is a south Devon based artist interested in animal voice, particularly bird song. He has been involved in listening and sound...

Place is Learning Us

Place is learning us This paper examines and explains the motivation behind our performance walks. Our method involves a repeated research walk in which we look for the memories inscribed into place, and consider that whilst we are learning place, place is also...

Paeony Lewis

Paeony Lewis tell us: Currently I am studying for an MA in Fine Art (Norwich) and my practice is underpinned by a degree in Environmental Sciences. Through conceptual art I want to encourage people to ponder their relationship with the natural world. In particular I’m...

Broken Homes

Broken Homes Sue Hill   Abstract This paper focuses on the complexity of notions of 'home', with special reference to the work I have been doing in conflict areas, through WildWorks and the Eden Project, with people who have experienced what happens when more...

In Other Tongues film

We have released a short documentary film from June’s In Other Tongues. Made by Rosie Jones, with contributions from Ralph Whitehead and Sarah Gray, the gives an excellent flavour of the event, its people, and its range of intellectual explorations.

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv