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, February 1

First Fridays happen on the first Friday of every month, except January - so this is the first gathering of 2019. First Fridays 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...

Island Stories

Watch Judith Parrot's 'Island Stories'

Alice Clough

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 Minou Polleros, is Alice Clough. Alice was also our guest artist at First Friday last December (2019)....

Short Course: Chris Drury & Kay Syrad

In this five-day intensive, Chris Drury shares his renowned practice of working with form, including whirlpool and vortex, fractal and wave patterns, exploring and investigating how aesthetic forms have the universal enfolded within them but are at the same time particular to individual experience.

High Water – what next?

High Water ran from 08.30 to 22.00 on the highest tide of the year on March 30. This celebration of and vigil for the vernal spring tide brought together contributions from over 60 participants from across the world, enjoyed by a sell-out crowd. Some were unable to...

In Other Tongues film

We have released a short documentary film from June’s In Other Tongues. Made by Rosie Jones, with contributions from Ralph Whitehead and Sarah Gray, the gives an excellent flavour of the event, its people, and its range of intellectual explorations.

Borrowed Time: on death, dying & change

Borrowed Time: on death, dying & change Online, October 31 to November 3, 2021 (and at other times throughout 2021) What constitutes ‘a good death’? How do we know death, personally? What room do we make for the dead – within our relationships, our ways of...

Postgraduate Forum: Extinction

In collaboration with our good colleagues at Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School we are offering a postgraduate forum as part of Borrowed Time. Wednesday 3 November 2021, 09.15-16.00 GMT Keynote: Mirko Nikolić Extinction is an online postgraduate symposium...

Helen Poynor – Earth Songs on Dartmoor

One-day workshop on May 27 on Dartmoor, with renowned movement artist Helen Poyner.

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,...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv