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 February 2

by art.earth | December 5, 2017 | First Friday, Our Events | 0 Comments

Join us on February 2 for the first First Friday of 2018. As always, we gather at 1pm for a shared lunch – bring something to share. Around 2, we re-convene for our guest artist talk, this month by Lara Goodband. Lara's creative practice is as a producer - she makes...

First Friday, April 3

by art.earth | March 4, 2020 | First Friday | 0 Comments

Quite properly the Trio of Men have decided to offer The William Froude Project online only. We will add further details when available. We have therefore taken the decision to CANCEL THIS FIRST FRIDAY gathering altogether as it does not seem the best time to be...

High Water – what next?

by art.earth | April 2, 2021 | News, Our Events | 0 Comments

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...

First Friday, September 2

by art.earth | August 15, 2022 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

Main image: Images from Tree Lines – an anthology of visual poems exploring the experience of tree by Walter Lewis (this image has been cropped for formatting requirements) Ecoart - what is it and how do we make It count? https://vimeo.com/755449186 First...

Short Course: Chris Drury & Kay Syrad

by art.earth | November 5, 2017 | Our Events, Recent, Short Course | 0 Comments

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.

A Wider Sense of Community

by art.earth | October 23, 2018 | coming soon, News, Our Events, Short Course | 0 Comments

We have reluctantly decided not to run 'A Wider Sense of Community' this November. We had an almost unprecedented level of interest in the course, but insufficient take-up of places to make it viable for us to run it. Clearly we got something wrong here, so we will go...

Exhibition: Being-with, Making-with

by art.earth | January 27, 2019 | Our Events, Past events, Previous exhibitions | 1 Comment

Being-with, Making-with Friday March 8 to Wednesday May 1, 2019, Dartington Space Gallery The artists in this new show, Nicky Cornwell, Karen Hawkins, Judith Israel and Jenny Thorburn, first encountered each other in May 2018 on an art.earth short course called...