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.

Plans for May First Friday

If you're planning to join us for our virtual First Friday on May 1, we've just published three recipes for you to make to share with someone else. It's not too late to include your recipe...send it to us and we'll try to include it this time (if not, then next)....

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...

Gallery proposal form

We've released proposal forms for the Garden Room Gallery, for group and solo exhibitions for 2017. Please find them here. The Gallery is still in an experimental phase. We're seeing what will work in the space and how best to organise and run it. For now, there is no...

September 2022: Sam Clark

Each month one of the art.earth Board of Directors selects an artist from the membership because they are particularly taken with their work. This month our Featured Artist is Sam Clark selected by Mary Waltham. Sam will be showing a series of new works at the Royal...

First Friday October 5

Join us on October 5 for First Friday AND a meet-the-artists reception (FREE and open to all) As always, we gather at 1pm for a shared lunch – bring something to share. Around 2, we re-convene for our guest artist talk (with a slightly different format this month)....

In Other Tongues – short course

In Other Tongues: intimate geographies, ecologies of conversation Residential Short Course June 10-14 2017 Taking the idea of geographical intimacy as its starting point, this five-day residential course offers a special opportunity to explore how we relate to the...

Cathy Fitzgerald

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 selected artist is Cathy Fitzgerald...

the impossible gaze of the ecological subject

the impossible gaze of the ecological subject Alex Murdin   We are now living in the Athropocene. This informal term, coined in 2000 by Paul Crutzen is now common currency amongst scientists and describes the current time period in the geological scale where...

First Friday April 5

First Fridays happen on the first Friday of every month, except January – so this is the first gathering of 2019. 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...

Here and There videos

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

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv