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.

Displacement from sensory connections

by art.earth | October 4, 2013 | Artists, Conference 2012, News | 0 Comments

Displacement from sensory connections to cultural identity and place, and an examination of some consequences for human and environmental wellbeing Abstract The modern world facilitates increasing disconnection from land, cultural identity and each other. Yet...

June 2021: Haruko Joyce Okano

by art.earth | June 3, 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 (June 2021)...

Evgenia Emets (Portugal / UK)

by art.earth | April 30, 2020 | FFartwork-old | 0 Comments

Evgenia Emets is a poet and artist, she has lived and worked in Russia, UK and Portugal, her art informed by the language, culture, social and ecological landscape of these places. She graduated from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art in 2008. Her works are in...

Liquidscapes

by art.earth | January 11, 2018 | Past events, Summit | 0 Comments

Liquidscapes: tales and telling of watery worlds and fluid states June 20 to 22 2018 • Dartington Hall @liquidscapes18 | @artdotearth A three-day international gathering bringing together creative thinkers and doers to explore physically and figuratively...

First Friday, October 4

by art.earth | September 24, 2019 | First Friday, Past events | 0 Comments

Next week it's First Friday (October 4). 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...

Chasing the Sublime

by art.earth | March 28, 2019 | News, Our Events, Short Course | 0 Comments

Watch this trailer for the new short film Chasing the Sublime, exploring the physicality of long-distance cold water swimming by award winning director Amanda Bluglass. Coming soon to adventure film festivals.Why do we put ourselves into the path of...

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...

In Other Tongues film

by art.earth | November 8, 2017 | News, Past events | 0 Comments

We have released a short documentary film from June’s In Other Tongues. Made by Rosie Jones, with contributions from Ralph Whitehead and Sarah Gray, the gives an excellent flavour of the event, its people, and its range of intellectual explorations.

October 2022: Louisa Chase

by art.earth | October 1, 2022 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

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...

Transcribing Landscape | June 2016

by art.earth | February 19, 2016 | Past events | 0 Comments

A rare opportunity to work in depth, reflecting on the different stories and narratives that emerge from the extraordinary landscape at Dartington Hall. Join sound artist Richard Povall and poet Fiona Benson on this residential experience that will allow you plenty of...