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, February 5

First Fridays are our monthly series of informal artist get-togethers where the conversation may stray from the triassic to contemporary reusable plastics — and just about anywhere in between.The sessions last about an hour and are friendly and informal. Participants...

First Friday, August 5

First Fridays are our informal gatherings/sharings, open to all. They started life as a physical place to meet up for a shared lunch followed by a live or occasionally remote presentation by an artist or group. Since May 2020 we have been gathering online which has...

Mark Leahy (Devon)

Mark says: I will talk about 9X9 - a set of poems under constraint: As my response to the hyperlocal commission from Arts and Culture Exeter I made a set of 9 square visual poems, using the first 9 square numbers, and found images in square format as the initial...

January 2021 – James Aldridge

James Aldridge is our featured member artist of the month for January 2021.

Helen Poynor – Earth Songs on Dartmoor

One-day workshop on May 27 on Dartmoor, with renowned movement artist Helen Poyner.

Exhibition: Hambly, Mellings, Ward

Group Exhibition:  Emma Hambly, Jenny Mellings and Peter Ward The exhibition is now open in the Garden Room Gallery and continues until February 14. Join us for a meet-the-artists reception on Friday, 12 January from 18.00 to 19.30. Exhibition overview:   for Emma,...

New exhibition in new gallery

In the Garden Room Gallery at Dartington Space Susan Deakin and Kari Furre: intimate sculpture, fish skin bowls, prints and drawings August 3 - October 15 2016 Susan Deakin’s drawings and prints reflect a long connection with the countryside of the South Hams, home...

The January newsletter

We've just sent out the January newsletter. If you haven't received it, you haven't got around to signing up to our mailing list, or you've accidentally slipped off. You can sign up over there on the right. We have highlighted some important deadlines: for applying to...

Transcribing Landscape

Coming in 2018, a short course led by poet Fiona Benson and art.earth's Richard Povall. First offered in 2016 as a Schumacher College short course, this refreshed version will have a distinctly art.earth flavour. If this is of interest please email us or join the...

Marlene Creates (Newfoundland)

Marlene lives in rural Newfoundland, Canada and will introduce her work during First Friday.  The image below: clouds over the boreal forest where I live. One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before?...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv