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...

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...

Papers from The Home & The World

Here is a list of papers / presentations from the 2012 The Home & The World conference held at Dartington Hall in June 2012. Find out more about the event The list of papers

In conversation with Caroline Hickman

Join us for the last in the series of events that have been Borrowed Time: on death, dying & change. As Borrowed Time’s final event, we mark the tenth Remembrance Day for Lost Species returning us to the predicament of accelerating ecological loss that gave birth...

First Friday – December 7

This month's First Friday (on December 7) has a kind-of-end-of-term feel, or the-holidays-are-coming feel, depending on your outlook. This is not only the last gathering for 2018, but the last until February 2019 as we don't get together on the first Friday in...

Island Stories

Watch Judith Parrot's 'Island Stories'

Liquidscapes

Liquidscapes: tales and telling of watery worlds and fluid states June 20 to 22 2018 • Dartington Hall @liquidscapes18 | @artdotearth A three-day international gathering bringing together creative thinkers and doers to explore physically and figuratively...

Peter Ward

Our featured artist for November 2020 is Peter Ward.

Negotiating the Surrender

Negotiating the Surrender led by Dougald Hine, co-founder of The Dark Mountain Projectand A School Called Home, An evening talk on Thursday June 6, 19.30 at Dartington Hall, Devon A follow-on seminar on Friday June 7, 09.15 to 16.00 also at...

Bob Budd (Devon)

Bob Budd is a Devon artist who works internationally as a sculptor and has done numerous things with art.earth. He's an occasional visitor to First Friday which he uses as an excuse to buy Battenberg and Mini-rolls. Which always get eaten...can't say we're not a...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv