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.

Remembrance Day for Lost Species

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

Remembrance Day for Lost Species on November 30 is a chance each year to explore the stories of extinct and critically endangered species, cultures, lifeways, and ecological communities. RDLS is a project of the wondrous ONCA gallery. Whilst emphasising that...

Exhibition: Coulson, Hudson, Phillips & Soriano

by art.earth | June 11, 2018 | Our Events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

June 20 to July 25 in the Garden Room Gallery Water, in all its forms, and locations, is the underlying theme which inspires all four artists in this exhibition. From that starting point they each have their own responses. Sue Coulson explores the seascape of South...

Keynote: Bayo Akomolafe

by art.earth | October 18, 2021 | Borrowed Time, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

Part of the Borrowed Time symposium October 31- November 3 Sunday, October 31 17.20-18.40 GMT/UTC+0 A Certain Kind of Dying What happens when health, wellbeing, and recovery are caught up with particularly troubling modes of corporeal production and imperial...

December 2022: Tom Baskeyfield

by art.earth | December 2, 2022 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

In the quietness of night, I look out into the vast darkness of the universe with awe. In the spaces between drystones in a wall I am drawn with similar wonder. And in the rock faces of quarried galleries I am often brought to a standstill with reverence. It is in these brief statements that I have found the core of my practice over recent years.

First Friday, November 4

by art.earth | October 24, 2016 | First Friday, Past events, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

First Fridays are a time to gather and share - food, ideas, art, gossip. First Fridays is entirely informal: a bring-something-to-share lunch followed usually by some kind of artist presentation. Our guest artist this month is Mat Osmond, writer and illustrator. n his...

A Wider Sense of Community

by art.earth | October 23, 2018 | coming soon, News, Our Events, Short Course | 0 Comments

We have reluctantly decided not to run 'A Wider Sense of Community' this November. We had an almost unprecedented level of interest in the course, but insufficient take-up of places to make it viable for us to run it. Clearly we got something wrong here, so we will go...

First Friday March 6

by art.earth | February 25, 2020 | First Friday | 0 Comments

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 lunch, there is an informal presentation of...

Art in a post-carbon world

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

Coming in 2018, this residential short courses explore creativity and aesthetics within the context of living in a post carbon world. It explores how artists can respond anew to a world no longer reliant on extraction and exploitation of limited resources. If this is...

Symposium: Evolving the Forest

by art.earth | July 6, 2018 | Past events, Recent, Summit | 0 Comments

June 19-21 2019 Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL, UK Read full details and booking arrangements This three-day international gathering draws together a wide variety of voices to explore a wondrous heritage of woodland and forest. In celebration of 100 years of...

Polly Morgan: artist talk

by art.earth | March 1, 2016 | News, 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) ...