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.

Phil Smith mytho-walk

May 29, 14.00 - 16.30 Mythogeographer Phil Smith leads a walk around a part of the Dartington Hall Estate addressing multiple layers of history, ecology, performance and personal associations. Phil addresses different ways in which the Estate has stood in for,...

Exhibition: Amélie Beaudroit, Agata Engelman, Elli Lestas

Exhibition overview:  Amélie and Agata Engelman share a passion for examining aspects of today’s plants and their supporting landscape/environment along with a concern over the consequences of human legacy and climate change.  Elli Lestas’ work also responds to...

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...

Angela Davies

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. Angela Davies This month’s selected artist is Angela Davies...

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,...

Common Salt – a performance around a table

Both performances are now SOLD OUT art.earth presents Sheila Ghelani and Sue Palmer in COMMON SALT Ship Studio at Dartington Hall, September 28 2018 This is an intimate performance with very limited tickets. Common Salt will be performed at 18:00 and again...

Deakin & Furre – Closing Reception

Please join us for the Closing Reception from the first exhibition in the Garden Room Gallery.

Dawn Quiet Walk booking open

Booking for our Dawn Quiet Walk event with Tony Whitehead is now open. Sunday 8 May 2016 Meet 4:00am by the main entrance to Dartington Hall (by The Barn Cinema) BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL  Join artist Tony Whitehead on a quiet dawn walk to listen to first light over the...

The Home & The World 2012

This site will be the home for the conference publication. Watch this space.

In conversation with Pascale Petit

On Friday October 30 we launched the first in our year-long Borrowed Time series which is our primary focus for 2021. Watch it here Find out about future Borrowed Time events  

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv