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, March 5

First Fridays are our monthly series of informal artist get-togethers where the conversation may stray from the triassic to contemporary reusable plastics — and just about anywhere in between.The sessions last about an hour and are friendly and informal. Participants...

Exhibition: Turn

TurnRachael Bennett and Kate PaxmanCurator: Steve BrownDartington Space Gallery  Friday October 4 2019 to Wednesday January 8 2020An exhibition about the liminal moment, observation, and the unknowable. Kate Paxman is an artist, researcher and educator at Plymouth...

The Residency Reports

We have been pleasurably hosting a residency with four students from Dartington's MA Arts & Place course here on the Dartington estate in the wondrous (if somewhat incipient) High Cross House. For the past two weeks Mary, Emma, Alison & Gavin have been working...

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)...

Keynote: Bayo Akomolafe

Part of the Borrowed Time symposium October 31- November 3 Sunday, October 31 17.20-18.40 GMT/UTC+0   A Certain Kind of Dying   What happens when health, wellbeing, and recovery are caught up with particularly troubling modes of corporeal production and imperial...

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...

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...

Exhibition: When Plants Remember

Siobhan McDonald Crystalline - When Plants Remember 1 November, 2018 to 9 January, 2019 in the Dartington Space Gallery Crystalline, When plants remember - At The Edge of Visibility, is a work which premiered at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (CCI Paris) in...

Polly Morgan: artist talk

After the First Friday lunch on May 6, artist Polly Morgan will talk about her extraordinary contemporary taxidermy: stunning sculptural objects that revere and seem sometimes fearful of the animals and birds whose bodies she uses in her work. BOOK HERE (free)  ...

Performance: Common Salt

COMMON SALT a performance around a table by artists Sheila Ghelani and Sue Palmer Friday September 28, Ship Studio, Dartington 18.00 and 20.00 (numbers are limited for each performance)     a show and tell, a nature table, a battle mat, an...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv