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.

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...

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...

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...

First Friday, June 4 2021

First Fridays happen (surprise!) on the first Friday of every month. 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 work in progress...

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...

Sweet May…

There's quite a bit happening at art.earth in the first week of May. It must be spring fever. First Friday, 6 May First Fridays (which began last month) start with an informal bring-something-to-share lunch followed by an artist talk / sharing of work. This month, the...

First Friday July 2: with Sophie Pierce & Annabel Pettigrew

We heard from Annabel Pettigrew and the 'Throes of Grief' collective, and then Richard Povall was In conversation with writer Sophie Pierce.  This First Friday forms part of our Borrowed Time series of actions with artists, writers and thinkers which began in October...

High Water

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...

Island Stories

Watch Judith Parrot's 'Island Stories'

June 2022: Catherine Cartwright

Catherine Cartwright is our featured artist of the month. She is a painter / image maker who also has a community arts practice.

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv