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 Oct 6

#firstfriday First Friday in October takes place in our usual venue, the Garden Room at Dartington Space. (For directions see the main First Friday page) Our guest artist is Charlotte Price whose work was on exhibition in the Garden Room Gallery in June/July 2017 and...

Lori Diggle (Devon)

Lori has sent us an audio walk: The Deer, the Duck & the Raven. Usually her walks are intended to be walks, happening in the places for which the sound walks are made. That's not possible at the moment, so she offers this in the spirit of imagination. Put your...

Paeony Lewis

Paeony Lewis tell us: Currently I am studying for an MA in Fine Art (Norwich) and my practice is underpinned by a degree in Environmental Sciences. Through conceptual art I want to encourage people to ponder their relationship with the natural world. In particular I’m...

A Bundle of Sticks

A Bundle of Sticks Peter Ward   Abstract ‘‘Art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible’’ Paul Klee (1) “At the heart of today’s ecological crisis lies a terrible failure to understand the essence of our relationship with the natural world. One can of...

First Friday, July 7

First Fridays are a time to gather and share - food, ideas, art, gossip. First Fridays is entirely informal: a bring-something-to-share lunch followed usually by some kind of artist presentation. This month will be a different format in deference to impending summer...

In Other Tongues @ Dark Mountain 3

AN UNDERSWELL OF DIVINATION by Mat Osmond 17th August, 2017 A virus that infects all other areas of thinking   In the 1970s and ’80’s the poet Ted Hughes and the sculptor and printmaker Leonard Baskin worked together on a number of books of illustrated poetry. Among...

In conversation with Pascale Petit

On Friday October 30 we launched the first in our year-long Borrowed Time series which is our primary focus for 2021. Watch it here Find out about future Borrowed Time events  

First Friday October 5

Join us on October 5 for First Friday AND a meet-the-artists reception (FREE and open to all) As always, we gather at 1pm for a shared lunch – bring something to share. Around 2, we re-convene for our guest artist talk (with a slightly different format this month)....

Stephen Jenkinson talk published

On Friday December 11 art.earth hosted a conversation with Stephen Jenkinson of Orphan Wisdom. Led by Christos Galanis, the conversation ranged across topics related to the Borrowed Time themes of death, dying and change and we as individuals and as a society deal...

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...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv