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.

Alyson Hallett – Migrating Stones

by art.earth | February 23, 2018 | coming soon, Essays & other writing, Our Events | 0 Comments

Migrating Stones Poet Alyson Hallett is co-facilitating the short course Embodying the Line this May (with choreographer Deborah Black). This piece was recorded as part of the 'Nature' series on Radio 4 (and caused some controversy at the time). BBC Radio 4: Nature,...

Exhibition: B. Budd, W. Lewis, R. Packham

by art.earth | April 19, 2018 | Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

Exhibition runs from May 18 to June 18 with work by Bob Budd, Walter Lewis and Ruth Packham. Join us for a meet the artists reception on Friday, 18th May from 18:00 to 19:30. Overview: these three artists, who have very different approaches and methods to their...

Exhibition: Jan O’Highway

by art.earth | May 24, 2017 | Artwork, Our Events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

VANITAS an exhibition by Jan O'Highway Garden Room Gallery, June 1 to 13. Emerging from darkness… reminiscent of a 17th century Vanitas still life, the strong chiaroscuro of these images emphasizes the underlying structures of plants in all their forms – seed to leaf...

Exhibition: Every child has a voice

by art.earth | August 30, 2019 | Past events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

Every Child has a Voice Friday September 6 to Wednesday October 2 2019, Dartington Space Gallery, Dartington Space, Totnes Every Child has a Voice is a project by Soundart Radio that invites all young people to broadcast. Over the last year, Shelley Hodgson and...

Exhibition: Orbis Terrarum

by art.earth | July 12, 2017 | Our Events, Past events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

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...

Meet-the-artist June 9

by art.earth | June 3, 2017 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events | 0 Comments

We had a truly excellent conversation at First Friday 2 June 2017 with Jan O'Highway guest artist. Nick Hart-Davies says: "It was a first for me - a really interesting talk about art!" There's another opportunity to meet Jan at a meet-the-artist reception at the...

Polly Morgan, May 6

by art.earth | April 26, 2016 | First Friday, Our Events | 0 Comments

After the First Friday lunch on May 6, artist Polly Morgan will talk about her extraordinary contemporary taxidermy: stunning sculptural objects that revere and seem sometimes fearful of the animals and birds whose bodies she uses in her work. BOOK HERE (free) Polly...

somewhere-nowhere (Cumbria)

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

Somewhere-nowhere (Rob & Harriet Fraser) uses the power of curiosity, pause and collaborative research to engage with all the elements that give a sense of place, and let stories gradually reveal themselves. Sometimes these are stories of joy and wonder, they may...

First Friday, July 1

by art.earth | June 14, 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...

Farewell messages

by art.earth | March 1, 2023 | Our Events | 0 Comments

Below is a random sampling of letters sent to us after we announced the closure of art.earth. We include these here partly as a testament to the work our wonderful team managed to pull out of the hat between 2016 and 2023 but also to underline the importance of having...