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.

Marlene Creates (Newfoundland)

Marlene lives in rural Newfoundland, Canada and will introduce her work during First Friday.  The image below: clouds over the boreal forest where I live. One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before?...

Art in a post-carbon world

Coming in 2018, this residential short courses explore creativity and aesthetics within the context of living in a post carbon world. It explores how artists can respond anew to a world no longer reliant on extraction and exploitation of limited resources. If this is...

Lara’s Raspberry & coconut muffins

from art.earth member Lara Goodband Raspberry jam polenta & coconut muffins (gluten free as it happens) Created on clearing out the house in Scarborough100g polenta100g rice flour *50g dessicated coconut *2 teaspoons of baking powder & half of bicarbonate110g...

Light exchange

Coming in 2019. Exploring light, capturing light, reflecting light. Experiment with camera-less techniques as a form of reflecting landscape. If this is of interest please email us or join the mailing list to ensure you will receive information as it becomes...

A Dartington Outing

A special exhibition in the Garden Room Gallery from September 22-28. Woven into Dartington's past and present, and that of our wider society and culture, are the lives of a host of LGBTQ people, families and communities – lives that have ranged, and still do, from...

Meet-the-artist June 9

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...

Susan Derges

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...

Anna Kirk-Smith

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...

Matter, meaning and making

Matter, meaning and making: a contextual approach to sustainable development   Abstract The term sustainable development is often criticized for having lost credibility due to a lack of clear-cut delineation. This contribution agrees that the term suffers from a...

First Friday, September 3

Ah well, summer's over. But it's the First Friday in September and we gather once again at 13.00 BST/UTC+1., This month our guest artists are Evgenia Emets and Yan Wang Preston. First Fridays are our regular gathering for anyone interested in art and the world around...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv