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 July 5

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...

Short Course: Nita Little – 21stC Contact Improv

Thursday 30th June – Friday 1 July 2022  – Dartington Hall Estate / Space Studios / Studio 6Everyday: 9:30 – 17:30 We are really excited to have Nita Little all the way from the USA here in Devon for a 2 day Intensive at Dartington. Join us on this unique...

First Friday August 6

First Fridays are our regular gathering for anyone interested in art and the world around us. It's not just for artists - anyone can come and anyone can participate. Since May 2020 we have been meeting online but the August 2021 First Friday marks the beginning of...

October 2022: Louisa Chase

Louisa Chase Born 1968, England. Migrated 2004 to Aotearoa, New Zealand. Returned (for as yet unknown timeframe) to England 2022 Dancing with Trees (photographic image) Ancestral Shadows (still image from video) [A note on Ancestral Shadows (above R): We must make new...

Exhibition: Orbis Terrarum

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...

Exhibition: Coulson, Hudson, Phillips & Soriano

June 20 to July 25 in the Garden Room Gallery Water, in all its forms, and locations, is the underlying theme which inspires all four artists in this exhibition.  From that starting point they each have their own responses.  Sue Coulson explores the seascape of South...

First Friday, April 1

April’s First Friday takes place on April 1 starting at 13.00GMT/UTC+00. Guest artists are Adriana Minu a composer currently a Doctoral Researcher at University of Glasgow, writer and visual artist Samantha Clark who lives and works on Orkney and Giulia Mattera a performance artist from Rome.

Short Course: Chris Drury & Kay Syrad

In this five-day intensive, Chris Drury shares his renowned practice of working with form, including whirlpool and vortex, fractal and wave patterns, exploring and investigating how aesthetic forms have the universal enfolded within them but are at the same time particular to individual experience.

John Fox & Sue Gill (Cumbria)

John Fox and partner Sue Gill are legendary community theatre pioneers formerly of Welfare State International. Now they together run Dead Good Guides, an artist-led company seeking a role for art that weaves it more fully into the fabric of our lives. John told us:...

GNAP UK 2018

The Ephemeral River (dancing, speaking, singing, laughing) A Global Nomadic Art Project The Global Nomadic Art Project Global Nomadic Art Projects bring together Nature Artists[i] from around the world in order to work and live together. They were founded on the idea...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv