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.

Exhibition: When Plants Remember

by art.earth | October 26, 2018 | Our Events | 0 Comments

Siobhan McDonald Crystalline - When Plants Remember 1 November, 2018 to 9 January, 2019 in the Dartington Space Gallery Crystalline, When plants remember - At The Edge of Visibility, is a work which premiered at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (CCI Paris) in...

First Friday, March 4

by art.earth | February 14, 2022 | First Friday | 0 Comments

First Fridays happen on the first Friday of every month, a gathering place for artists or anyone interested in the arts, an opportunity to share ideas, knowledge and art. We’re still meeting virtually (on Zoom). Perhaps we’ll start to nudge back towards some in-person...

Anna Kirk-Smith

by art.earth | April 1, 2018 | 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 conversation with that artist, together with some examples of his or her work. April 2018 Anna Kirk-Smith www.annakirksmith.com Thoughts about...

In conversation with Caroline Hickman

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

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...

Anna Chrystal Stephens

by art.earth | October 3, 2017 | 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 conversation with that artist, together with some examples of his or her work. October 2017 Anna Chrystal Stephens www.annachrystal.com This...

Kinship Workshop with Katye Coe & Tom Goodwin

by Minou Polleros | April 7, 2022 | Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

Sunday 26th June 2022 9:30 - 16:00 / Dartington Hall Estate/Outdoors/Along the river Dart £40/ A woman with red hair and dark blue clothes leans back horizontally onto a collection of large moss-covered rocks at the edge of a river. She pushes her feet into the rocks...

Evgenia Emets (Portugal / UK)

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

Evgenia Emets is a poet and artist, she has lived and worked in Russia, UK and Portugal, her art informed by the language, culture, social and ecological landscape of these places. She graduated from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art in 2008. Her works are in...

Carol Sharp

by art.earth | February 1, 2019 | 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 conversation with that artist, together with some examples of his or her work. Carol Sharp This month’s selected artist is Carol Sharp...

Short Course: Swimming: labour of imagination

by art.earth | March 9, 2020 | Our Events, Short Course | 0 Comments

Swimming: labour of imagination an art.earth residential short course [last offered] June 2018 Dartington Hall, Devon, UKIn 2018 art.earth ran a highly successful short course led by Kari Furre and Nancy Sinclair. Swimming: labour of imagination brought together...

First Friday, March 5

by art.earth | February 6, 2021 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

First Fridays are our monthly series of informal artist get-togethers where the conversation may stray from the triassic to contemporary reusable plastics — and just about anywhere in between.The sessions last about an hour and are friendly and informal. Participants...