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: Memory and observation

by art.earth | April 19, 2019 | Our Events, Past events, Previous exhibitions, Recent | 0 Comments

Memory and observation Friday May 3 to Thursday June 13, 2019, Dartington Space Gallery An exhibition of work by Clare Heaton, Katy Oxborrow and Laura Denning: a series of moments, pauses, memories and observations drawn in very different ways and in different media. ...

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) ...

Tessa Grundon & Hannah Fletcher

by art.earth | September 27, 2017 | Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

Hannah Fletcher and Tessa Grundon. Closing Reception/Meet the Artist Friday Nov 24 An exhibition about trees and topographies…

Exhibition: Orbis Terrarum

by art.earth | July 12, 2017 | Our Events, Past events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

An exhibition of work by local artists Rachael Allain, Margaret Harland and Charlotte Price. The artists explore the unacknowledged qualities of landscape reflecting those interfaces between water, land, path and field. There is a constant endeavour to portray the...

First Friday, October 2

by art.earth | September 4, 2020 | First Friday, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

For October’s First Friday we welcome Hugh Nankivell who will talk about his Walks with Rick song cycle amongst other things.

First Friday February 2

by art.earth | December 5, 2017 | First Friday, Our Events | 0 Comments

Join us on February 2 for the first First Friday of 2018. 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 Lara Goodband. Lara's creative practice is as a producer - she makes...

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...

March 2021: Katie Taylor

by art.earth | March 1, 2021 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

Each month a member of the art.earth Board of Directors selects a member to feature, to become our 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 (March 2021)...

Alice Clough

by art.earth | March 9, 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 Minou Polleros, is Alice Clough. Alice was also our guest artist at First Friday last December (2019)....

Acting as if the climate crisis is real

by art.earth | September 30, 2022 | Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

November 2 @ 19.00-21.15 GMT / UTC online. What does it mean to act as if ecological collapse is real? A reflection on The Magnitude of All Things (Flying Eye 2021) with director Jennifer Abbott, climate psychologist Caroline Hickman and End Fossil! student...