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.

First Friday July 2: with Sophie Pierce & Annabel Pettigrew

by art.earth | March 11, 2021 | Borrowed Time, Essays & other writing, First Friday, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 2 Comments

We heard from Annabel Pettigrew and the 'Throes of Grief' collective, and then Richard Povall was In conversation with writer Sophie Pierce. This First Friday forms part of our Borrowed Time series of actions with artists, writers and thinkers which began in October...

First Friday, September 2

by art.earth | August 15, 2022 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

Main image: Images from Tree Lines – an anthology of visual poems exploring the experience of tree by Walter Lewis (this image has been cropped for formatting requirements) Ecoart - what is it and how do we make It count? https://vimeo.com/755449186 First...

First Friday May 3

by art.earth | May 2, 2019 | First Friday, Our Events | 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...

In Other Tongues @ Dark Mountain 3

by art.earth | August 18, 2017 | Essays & other writing, Past events | 0 Comments

AN UNDERSWELL OF DIVINATION by Mat Osmond 17th August, 2017 A virus that infects all other areas of thinking In the 1970s and ’80’s the poet Ted Hughes and the sculptor and printmaker Leonard Baskin worked together on a number of books of illustrated poetry. Among...

Artist talk: Chris Drury

by art.earth | May 4, 2018 | Artists, Our Events, Special | 0 Comments

Chris Drury is a British environmental artist. His body of work includes ephemeral assemblies of natural materials, in the mode associated with Andy Goldsworthy, as well as more-permanent landscape art, works on paper, and indoor installations. He also works on 3D sculptures (three-dimensional).

Yan Wang Preston

by art.earth | February 10, 2020 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

Each month (or thereabouts!) one of the art.earth Directors chooses an artist-member to be featured as Artist of the Month. This month's featured artist, selected by Richard Povall, is Yan Wang Preston Header image: Making the red line (Yangtze River, China, 2011) ...

First Friday, July 7

by art.earth | June 19, 2017 | First Friday, Our Events | 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. This month will be a different format in deference to impending summer...

Images from Hannah Perner-Wilson

by art.earth | March 29, 2020 | News, Our Events, Past events | 0 Comments

Hannah Perner-Wilson was one of the artists selected to take part in our residency programme last (Tasting the Change) November (2019) where teams of artists and people from other disciplines worked together on issues pertaining to climate change . There are a number...

Evgenia Emets (Portugal / UK)

by art.earth | April 30, 2020 | FFartwork-old | 0 Comments

Evgenia Emets is a poet and artist, she has lived and worked in Russia, UK and Portugal, her art informed by the language, culture, social and ecological landscape of these places. She graduated from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art in 2008. Her works are in...

First Friday, December 3

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

Our next First Friday gathering is on Friday December 3, starting at 13.00GMT/UTC+0. In normal times, First Fridays are 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...