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.

Exhibition: Stream

by art.earth | August 22, 2018 | Our Events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

September 7 to 9 in the Garden Room Gallery Part of Stream, a three-day festival of concourse and discourse celebrating the human-scaled, contemporary arts education of Dartington College of Arts since 1961. Eight years after its closure, ex-students are planning a...

Carol Sharp

by art.earth | February 1, 2019 | 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. Carol Sharp This month’s selected artist is Carol Sharp...

Sabine Kussmaul

by art.earth | April 30, 2018 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

High Water

by art.earth | February 5, 2021 | Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

Share your connection to the sea and the tides March 30, 08.45 to ....well we'll see Wherever you are in the world we'd love you to share with us your story about the sea and in particular high tide. It might be a reading, some factual information, an image or...

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,...

First Friday June 1

by art.earth | May 23, 2018 | First Friday, Our Events | 0 Comments

Join us on June 1 for First Friday As always, we gather at 1pm for a shared lunch – bring something to share. Around 2, we re-convene for our guest artist talk, this month by Alain Pezardsnell. Alain says: My current approach to creativity is very instinctive and I...

Richard’s Victoria Sponge

by art.earth | April 24, 2020 | Recipes | 0 Comments

Warning: not in the least vegan...but reasonably low in gluten. Richard's Victoria Sponge This is a variation on the official Women's Institute cake. It also breaks most of the rules for making a sponge cake but seems to work fine for me. There's a picture of the cake...

Here and There videos

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

Here is a video made by one of the participants in the Labyrinth walk in the US. ...and the 'official' video from the Delaware Art Museum

The Home & The World redux

by art.earth | November 23, 2016 | Artwork, Conference 2012, Essays & other writing, News, Past events, Research, Resources | 0 Comments

It's only taken us four-and-a-half years, but we've finally published the papers and reports from The Home & The World, our first creative summit which took place in June 2012. This event was produced not by art.earth but by the wonderful team at erstwhile Aune...

First Friday Sept 1

by art.earth | August 30, 2017 | First Friday, Our Events | 0 Comments

First Friday in September takes place in our usual venue, the Garden Room at Dartington Space. (For directions see the main First Friday page) Our guest artist is not a guest at all. Richard Povall will talk about what's coming up for the remainder of 2017 and in 2018...