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, Sept 2

First Fridays are a time to gather and share - food, ideas, art, gossip. First Fridays are entirely informal: a bring-something-to-share lunch followed usually by some kind of artist presentation. This month, we welcome video artist Rachael Allain, and possibly some...

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.

…in conversation with Yuli Somme

A conversation between Yuli Somme and Richard Povall on November 20 at 13.00 GMT.

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...

Radical Landscapes exhibition

Camilla Nelson, co-leader of our short course Branching Out: collaborating with trees this June talks about the Radical Landscapes exhibition she curated earlier this year. The exhibition took place from March 22 to April 20 at The Plough in Torrington,...

Farewell messages

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...

Exhibition: Turn

TurnRachael Bennett and Kate PaxmanCurator: Steve BrownDartington Space Gallery  Friday October 4 2019 to Wednesday January 8 2020An exhibition about the liminal moment, observation, and the unknowable. Kate Paxman is an artist, researcher and educator at Plymouth...

First Friday December 2: member showcase

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...

Here and There

Here and There: Retracing our Steps The labyrinth is an ancient symbol relating to wholeness and contemplation, and can be used as an opportunity to slow down, quieten the mind, to relax, to meditate, to pray, to solve problems or simply to enjoy a recreational...

From the MA Arts & Place residency

Some images from the extraordinarily productive time during our residency with students Emma Yorke, Alison, Jackson-Bass, Gavin Blench and Mary Waltham over the past two weeks. We were hosting the residency on the Dartington Hall estate in the wondrous High Cross...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv