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.

Remembrance Day for Lost Species

by art.earth | November 12, 2021 | Borrowed Time, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

Remembrance Day for Lost Species on November 30 is a chance each year to explore the stories of extinct and critically endangered species, cultures, lifeways, and ecological communities. RDLS is a project of the wondrous ONCA gallery. Whilst emphasising that...

Myka Baum

by art.earth | May 1, 2020 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

Each month one of our Directors chooses an art.earth member to become ‘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’s selected artist is Myka...

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...

the impossible gaze of the ecological subject

by art.earth | October 8, 2013 | Conference 2012 | 0 Comments

the impossible gaze of the ecological subject Alex Murdin We are now living in the Athropocene. This informal term, coined in 2000 by Paul Crutzen is now common currency amongst scientists and describes the current time period in the geological scale where...

In conversation with…Sophie Strand

by art.earth | September 1, 2021 | Borrowed Time, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

In the next in our series of Borrowed Time conversations, we introduce American writer Sophie Strand. Sophie is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Give her a salamander and a stone and she’ll write you a love story. Sophie was raised by house cats, puff balls, possums, raccoons, and an opinionated, crippled goose. In every neighborhood she’s ever lived in she has been known as “the walker”. She believes strongly that all thinking happens interstitially – between beings, ideas, differences, mythical gradients.

In Other Tongues – cfp

by art.earth | November 21, 2016 | Past events, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

In Other Tongues: creating metaphysics, embodying language June 7-9 2017 [Residential Short Course June 10-14] Venue: Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EA, UK DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS 22.00 GMT January 5, 2017 art.earth and Schumacher College invite you to submit a...

Gabi Gershuny on Feeding the Insatiable

by art.earth | December 16, 2016 | News, Past events, Research | 0 Comments

Gabi Gershuny has written a piece about Feeding the Insatiable which took place early last month. More than a simple review, it's an interesting piece that picks up on the essential ideas from the summit. You can read it here. It's posted on a really interesting site...

Menuhin’s Violin

by art.earth | August 7, 2017 | Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

July 29 to August 29 During August, Menuhin’s Violin will be installed in the gallery. This is a new commission from Live Music Now, who say: Live Music Now have commissioned a collaborative musical-sculptural installation that will celebrate Yehudi...

First Friday June 1

by art.earth | May 23, 2018 | First Friday, Our Events | 0 Comments

Join us on June 1 for First Friday As always, we gather at 1pm for a shared lunch – bring something to share. Around 2, we re-convene for our guest artist talk, this month by Alain Pezardsnell. Alain says: My current approach to creativity is very instinctive and I...

First Friday, April 1

by art.earth | February 22, 2022 | First Friday, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

April’s First Friday takes place on April 1 starting at 13.00GMT/UTC+00. Guest artists are Adriana Minu a composer currently a Doctoral Researcher at University of Glasgow, writer and visual artist Samantha Clark who lives and works on Orkney and Giulia Mattera a performance artist from Rome.