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.

Elli Lestas (Cyprus)

Elli Lestas was born in London, raised in Bromley, studied textiles at Camberwell College of Art and MA Fine art at Goldsmiths. Now based in Cyprus, she became involved in horticulture specializing in seed germination. After a long break returned to her art in 2012...

First Friday, April 3

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...

Tessa Grundon & Hannah Fletcher

Hannah Fletcher and Tessa Grundon. Closing Reception/Meet the Artist Friday Nov 24 An exhibition about trees and topographies…

High Water

Share your connection to the sea and the tides March 30, 08.45 to ....well we'll see   Wherever you are in the world we'd love you to share with us your story about the sea and in particular high tide.  It might be a reading, some factual information, an image or...

Bob Budd (Devon)

Bob Budd is a Devon artist who works internationally as a sculptor and has done numerous things with art.earth. He's an occasional visitor to First Friday which he uses as an excuse to buy Battenberg and Mini-rolls. Which always get eaten...can't say we're not a...

First Friday – December 7

This month's First Friday (on December 7) has a kind-of-end-of-term feel, or the-holidays-are-coming feel, depending on your outlook. This is not only the last gathering for 2018, but the last until February 2019 as we don't get together on the first Friday in...

Gabi Gershuny on Feeding the Insatiable

Gabi Gershuny has written a piece about Feeding the Insatiable which took place early last month. More than a simple review, it's an interesting piece that picks up on the essential ideas from the summit.  You can read it here. It's posted on a really interesting site...

Kari Furre in multi-award winning film

Kari Furre wins film awardKari Furre - artist, swimmer, a Director of the Outdoor Swimming Society and one of the two leaders of our June short course Swimming: labour of imagination is featured in this wonderful film about swimming in Lake Windermere. It...

First Friday, July 1

First Fridays are our informal gatherings/sharings, open to all. They started life as a physical place to meet up for a shared lunch followed by a live or occasionally remote presentation by an artist or group. Since May 2020 we have been gathering online which has...

Borrowed Time keynote: Dr Rachel Clarke

Wednesday June 23, 2021 at 13.00 (video now available) ‘What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life. It brought me often to laughter and – several times – to tears. It sings with joy and kindness’ Robert Macfarlaneon...

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