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.

March 2021: Katie Taylor

Each month a member of the art.earth Board of Directors selects a member to feature, to become our 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 (March 2021)...

Sweet May…

There's quite a bit happening at art.earth in the first week of May. It must be spring fever. First Friday, 6 May First Fridays (which began last month) start with an informal bring-something-to-share lunch followed by an artist talk / sharing of work. This month, the...

Artist talk: Chris Drury

Chris Drury  is a British environmental artist. His body of work includes ephemeral assemblies of natural materials, in the mode associated with Andy Goldsworthy, as well as more-permanent landscape art, works on paper, and indoor installations. He also works on 3D sculptures (three-dimensional).

John Fox & Sue Gill (Cumbria)

John Fox and partner Sue Gill are legendary community theatre pioneers formerly of Welfare State International. Now they together run Dead Good Guides, an artist-led company seeking a role for art that weaves it more fully into the fabric of our lives. John told us:...

Sabine Kussmaul

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. Sabine Kussmaul www.sabinekussmaul.com ...

Our 2018 short courses

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...

Liz McGowan

Our featured artist-member for October 2020 is Liz McGowan, selected by art.earth Director Julia Bond.

Swimming short course?

In 2018 we ran a highly successful short course with Kari Furre and Nancy Sinclair. Swimming: labour of imagination brought together people from many directions to explore their love of the water and their love of creativity. We are now exploring running the course...

Place is Learning Us

Place is learning us This paper examines and explains the motivation behind our performance walks. Our method involves a repeated research walk in which we look for the memories inscribed into place, and consider that whilst we are learning place, place is also...

Walter Lewis (Yorkshire)

Photographer Walter Lewis has sent us a few images I made at the start of isolation from which we've selected two to include here. The series is currently called ‘Aching and Angry’. Walter says that they could be described as about the complacency which is shown...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv