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, April 3

Quite properly the Trio of Men have decided to offer The William Froude Project online only. We will add further details when available. We have therefore taken the decision to CANCEL THIS FIRST FRIDAY gathering altogether as it does not seem the best time to be...

First Friday November 3

Andrew Stacey: Blockages and stuckages First Fridays take place on the first Friday of every month, except January. First Friday 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...

Lori Hepner, Minou Tsambika Polleros & Rosalind Holgate Smith

An exhibition of work by Lori Hepner, Minou Tsambika Polleros and Rosalind Holgate Smith opens in the Garden Room Gallery on Thursday May 11 and runs until May 20. Opening Reception: Friday May 12 18.00 to 20.00 Complementary work by three artists exploring...

First Friday December 2, 2016

Oliver Raymond-Barker was one of the UK artists selected to represent the UK at this year's South Korean Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 'Breathing Art'. UK participation in this event is curated by the Centre for Contemporary Art & the Natural World. Oliver will...

In Other Tongues @ Dark Mountain

Today Dark Mountain has started a new series about learning to listen to the myriad other voices beyond the human. Inspired by In Other Tongues, a three-day creative summit held this summer in Dartington, UK, we invited six contributors – artists, writers, academics,...

Yan Wang Preston

Each month (or thereabouts!) one of the art.earth Directors chooses an artist-member to be featured as Artist of the Month. This month's featured artist, selected by Richard Povall, is Yan Wang Preston Header image: Making the red line (Yangtze River, China, 2011)  ...

Nicky Cornwell

Each month one of our Directors chooses an art.earth member to become ‘Artist of the Month’. What follows is a conversation with that artist, together with some examples of his or her work. This month's selected artist is Nicky Cornwell (Instagram...

A Liquidscapes interview with Amy Sharrocks

An interview by podcaster David Clarke about Liquidscapes and the Flow Partnership’s Water Summer School that was happening in parallel with Liquidscapes at Dartington this June. An acoustic journey: The River Killers explores the state of our rivers and how we should...

Exhibition: Being-with, Making-with

Being-with, Making-with Friday March 8 to Wednesday May 1, 2019, Dartington Space Gallery The artists in this new show, Nicky Cornwell, Karen Hawkins, Judith Israel and Jenny Thorburn,  first encountered each other in May 2018 on an art.earth short course called...

In conversation with Caroline Hickman

Join us for the last in the series of events that have been Borrowed Time: on death, dying & change. As Borrowed Time’s final event, we mark the tenth Remembrance Day for Lost Species returning us to the predicament of accelerating ecological loss that gave birth...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv