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.

First Friday Sept 2nd

by art.earth | August 23, 2016 | First Friday, Past events | 0 Comments

First Friday, September 2 On September 2, it's a First Friday and we'll be in the Garden Room area at Dartington Space (TQ9 6EL) (down the hill from the main car parks - big blue sign at end of drive) which will give you a good opportunity to browse the exhibition by...

First Friday, April 2021

by art.earth | March 11, 2021 | First Friday, Our Events | 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...

Patricia Brien introduces KINdoms

by art.earth | October 5, 2018 | Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

Curator Patricia Brien introduces the KINdoms exhibition, which continues in the Dartington Space Gallery until October 17. Read more here

New exhibition in new gallery

by art.earth | August 8, 2016 | Our Events | 0 Comments

In the Garden Room Gallery at Dartington Space Susan Deakin and Kari Furre: intimate sculpture, fish skin bowls, prints and drawings August 3 - October 15 2016 Susan Deakin’s drawings and prints reflect a long connection with the countryside of the South Hams, home...

Symposium: Evolving the Forest

by art.earth | July 6, 2018 | Past events, Recent, Summit | 0 Comments

June 19-21 2019 Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL, UK Read full details and booking arrangements This three-day international gathering draws together a wide variety of voices to explore a wondrous heritage of woodland and forest. In celebration of 100 years of...

Our 2018 short courses

by art.earth | December 14, 2017 | Our Events, Short Course | 0 Comments

We have a rich selection of residential short courses planned for 2018, with more being added over the coming weeks. In April we offer a weekend workshop (17.00 on Friday to 16.00 on Sunday) Artist/Geographer Christos Galanis hosts We gather at the river with our Bone...

Susan Derges

by art.earth | September 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 (September 2020) selected artist is...

Publication: The Ephemeral River

by art.earth | July 15, 2019 | News, Our Events, Past events, Special | 0 Comments

In the summer of 2018 art.earth produced a special event for the Centre for Contemporary Art & the Natural World (CCANW), Yatoo (S. Korea) and Science Walden (S. Korea). This extraordinarily beautiful and art-rich book is the result (and is only available in print...

Transcribing Landscape | June 2016

by art.earth | February 19, 2016 | Past events | 0 Comments

A rare opportunity to work in depth, reflecting on the different stories and narratives that emerge from the extraordinary landscape at Dartington Hall. Join sound artist Richard Povall and poet Fiona Benson on this residential experience that will allow you plenty of...

Alice Clough

by art.earth | March 9, 2020 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

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)....