art.earth | a family of ecological artists and organisations

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.

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 still purchase our publications. Books while stocks last + eBooks.

You can also read some of the many responses to our farewell message.

A huge thank you all who participated and otherwise engaged with us. The world still needs you!

Uniformannual

by art.earth | December 8, 2017 | Books, Essays & other writing | 0 Comments

Uniformannual We’ve deferred the next issue of the quarterly Uniformagazine for the moment in order to publish the first Uniformannual. Tapping into some idea of what an annual might be, or at least look like, it is a hardback with printed paper over boards, and...

First Friday, September 3

by art.earth | August 8, 2021 | First Friday, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

Ah well, summer's over. But it's the First Friday in September and we gather once again at 13.00 BST/UTC+1., This month our guest artists are Evgenia Emets and Yan Wang Preston. First Fridays are our regular gathering for anyone interested in art and the world around...

Negotiating the Surrender

by art.earth | March 7, 2019 | Our Events, Past events | 0 Comments

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...

Unfolding art and science

by art.earth | June 12, 2018 | Essays & other writing | 0 Comments

INTERTWINING: Unfolding Art and Science Intertwining is an international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to understanding the experience and making of architecture. It includes the voices of science alongside those of the arts – as both ways of knowing are...

Lucinda Burgess

by art.earth | December 29, 2018 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

Each month one of our Directors chooses an art.earth member to become ‘Artist of the Month’. What follows is a conversation with that artist, together with some examples of his or her work. This month’s selected artist is Lucinda Burgess...

Low Carbon Futures

by art.earth | May 30, 2017 | Essays & other writing | 0 Comments

Low Carbon Futures: what have the arts and humanities got to do with it? By Chrisfremantle How many lawyers does it take to make Scotland low carbon? How many artists? You might think it doesn’t matter – it’s the scientists, engineers and politicians who will make the...

the sea cannot be depleted

by art.earth | March 14, 2018 | Essays & other writing | 0 Comments

the sea cannot be depleted is a spoken word and sound piece about the Solway Firth about a sense of place that comes with living with that estuary and about what has been placed under the surface of the sea. It's a wonderful new work by Wallace Heim, and...

William Arnold, Myka Baum & Melanie King

by art.earth | April 24, 2017 | Artwork, Our Events, Past events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

New and recent work by William Arnold, Myka Baum and Melanie King in an exhibition titled 'O'. The exhibition runs in the Garden Room Gallery until May 9 The theme of the circle is depicted in William Arnold’s Tin-can Firmaments through the circular shaped image that...

High Water

by art.earth | February 5, 2021 | Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

Share your connection to the sea and the tides March 30, 08.45 to ....well we'll see Wherever you are in the world we'd love you to share with us your story about the sea and in particular high tide. It might be a reading, some factual information, an image or...

The Residency Reports

by art.earth | August 17, 2022 | Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

We have been pleasurably hosting a residency with four students from Dartington's MA Arts & Place course here on the Dartington estate in the wondrous (if somewhat incipient) High Cross House. For the past two weeks Mary, Emma, Alison & Gavin have been working...