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.

Forum: Emergency Response Time

by art.earth | October 19, 2019 | Our Events, Past events | 0 Comments

This event takes place Friday November 15 at the Ship Studio at Dartington. Tea/coffee/registration will be available from 9.00 and we kick off at 09.30. We will finish around 16.00. The day will explore the relationships between artists and those with other...

First Friday, May 6

by art.earth | April 6, 2022 | First Friday, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

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...

Ancient woodlands walk

by art.earth | February 3, 2017 | Past events, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Ancient Woodlands on the Dartington Hall Estate, Devon 10AM to 4PM, Sat 27th May 2017 A walk to explore and record the flora of several ancient woodland sites on the Dartington Hall Estate. The woods have a long history, including iron-age enclosures, and several...

Myka Baum

by art.earth | May 1, 2020 | 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 response from that artist to some questions and a discussion, together with some examples of their work. This month’s selected artist is Myka...

The Home & The World redux

by art.earth | November 23, 2016 | Artwork, Conference 2012, Essays & other writing, News, Past events, Research, Resources | 0 Comments

It's only taken us four-and-a-half years, but we've finally published the papers and reports from The Home & The World, our first creative summit which took place in June 2012. This event was produced not by art.earth but by the wonderful team at erstwhile Aune...

Bob Budd (Devon)

by art.earth | May 26, 2020 | FFartwork-old | 0 Comments

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...

A Wider Sense of Community

by art.earth | October 23, 2018 | coming soon, News, Our Events, Short Course | 0 Comments

We have reluctantly decided not to run 'A Wider Sense of Community' this November. We had an almost unprecedented level of interest in the course, but insufficient take-up of places to make it viable for us to run it. Clearly we got something wrong here, so we will go...

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).

First Friday, February 5

by art.earth | January 9, 2021 | First Friday, Our Events, Recent | 0 Comments

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...

2 exhibitions at Dartington Space

by art.earth | July 9, 2016 | Artists, Artwork, Our Events | 0 Comments

There are currently two exhibitions open at Dartington Space in the new Space Gallery programme by art.earth. Nessie Reid's The Milking Parlour and Exchange by Chris Drury and Kay Syrad. Both projects were produced by Cape Farewell are open during office and some...