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.

Exhibition: Amélie Beaudroit, Agata Engelman, Elli Lestas

by art.earth | February 13, 2018 | Our Events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

Exhibition overview: Amélie and Agata Engelman share a passion for examining aspects of today’s plants and their supporting landscape/environment along with a concern over the consequences of human legacy and climate change. Elli Lestas’ work also responds to...

Plans for May First Friday

by art.earth | April 24, 2020 | First Friday | 0 Comments

If you're planning to join us for our virtual First Friday on May 1, we've just published three recipes for you to make to share with someone else. It's not too late to include your recipe...send it to us and we'll try to include it this time (if not, then next)....

First Friday November 4: Sense of Place

by art.earth | October 14, 2022 | First Friday, Our Events | 0 Comments

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...

A watery June

by art.earth | December 21, 2017 | Our Events, Primary, Short Course, Summit | 0 Comments

A Watery June This year we're celebrating water and the state of being fluid. We'll be at it all year in one way or another, but June is where it all comes together. Why not come and spend the entire month with us? First, we host the UK's first Global...

Exhibition: Hambly, Mellings, Ward

by art.earth | January 8, 2018 | Our Events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

Group Exhibition: Emma Hambly, Jenny Mellings and Peter Ward The exhibition is now open in the Garden Room Gallery and continues until February 14. Join us for a meet-the-artists reception on Friday, 12 January from 18.00 to 19.30. Exhibition overview: for Emma,...

Gallery proposal form

by art.earth | November 5, 2016 | Past events, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

We've released proposal forms for the Garden Room Gallery, for group and solo exhibitions for 2017. Please find them here. The Gallery is still in an experimental phase. We're seeing what will work in the space and how best to organise and run it. For now, there is no...

Dance film: Paul Michael Henry

by art.earth | October 18, 2021 | Borrowed Time, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

October 31, 2021 19.40 – 20.40 GMT/UTC+0 Paul Michael Henry is a Scottish performance artist, dancer and musician. His work is informed by Butoh dance, punk rock and ritual, and is performed all over the world. Recent projects include SHRIMP DANCE (a multimedia...

September 2022: Sam Clark

by art.earth | September 1, 2022 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

Each month one of the art.earth Board of Directors selects an artist from the membership because they are particularly taken with their work. This month our Featured Artist is Sam Clark selected by Mary Waltham. Sam will be showing a series of new works at the Royal...

In Other Tongues film

by art.earth | November 8, 2017 | News, Past events | 0 Comments

We have released a short documentary film from June’s In Other Tongues. Made by Rosie Jones, with contributions from Ralph Whitehead and Sarah Gray, the gives an excellent flavour of the event, its people, and its range of intellectual explorations.

First Friday November 2

by art.earth | October 27, 2018 | First Friday, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

Join us on November 2 for First Friday AND a meet-the-artists discussion (FREE and open to all). As always, we gather at 1pm for a shared lunch – bring something to share. Around 2, we re-convene for our guest artist talk (with a slightly different format this month)....