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.

December 2022: Tom Baskeyfield

by art.earth | December 2, 2022 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

In the quietness of night, I look out into the vast darkness of the universe with awe. In the spaces between drystones in a wall I am drawn with similar wonder. And in the rock faces of quarried galleries I am often brought to a standstill with reverence. It is in these brief statements that I have found the core of my practice over recent years.

Displacement from sensory connections

by art.earth | October 4, 2013 | Artists, Conference 2012, News | 0 Comments

Displacement from sensory connections to cultural identity and place, and an examination of some consequences for human and environmental wellbeing Abstract The modern world facilitates increasing disconnection from land, cultural identity and each other. Yet...

Negotiating the Surrender

by art.earth | March 7, 2019 | Our Events, Past events | 0 Comments

Negotiating the Surrender led by Dougald Hine, co-founder of The Dark Mountain Projectand A School Called Home, An evening talk on Thursday June 6, 19.30 at Dartington Hall, Devon A follow-on seminar on Friday June 7, 09.15 to 16.00 also at...

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...

First Friday, February 3, 2017

by art.earth | January 7, 2017 | First Friday, Past events | 0 Comments

First Fridays are a time to gather and share - food, ideas, art, gossip. First Fridays is entirely informal: a bring-something-to-share lunch followed usually by some kind of artist presentation. Our guest artists this month are Rob and Harriet Fraser...

Meet-the-artist June 9

by art.earth | June 3, 2017 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events | 0 Comments

We had a truly excellent conversation at First Friday 2 June 2017 with Jan O'Highway guest artist. Nick Hart-Davies says: "It was a first for me - a really interesting talk about art!" There's another opportunity to meet Jan at a meet-the-artist reception at the...

Sentient Performativities

by art.earth | June 14, 2022 | Past events, Recent, Summit | 0 Comments

Sentient Performativities: thinking alongside the human is art.earth’s annual gathering and takes place from June 26-30.

Lucinda Burgess

by art.earth | December 29, 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. This month’s selected artist is Lucinda Burgess...

First Friday April 1

by art.earth | March 31, 2016 | First Friday, Past events | 0 Comments

No, it's not an April fool...just an update to remind you of where to find us for First Friday tomorrow - the first first friday (well, the first First Friday II, for those if you who remember the original...). You will find us in the Elmhirst Centre Library, which is...

First Friday July 6

by art.earth | July 1, 2018 | First Friday, News, Our Events | 0 Comments

Join us on July 6 for First Friday AND a meet-the-artists reception (FREE and open to all) As always, we gather at 1pm for a shared lunch – bring something to share. Around 2, we re-convene for our guest artist talk (with a slightly different format this month). This...