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.

Farewell messages

Below is a random sampling of letters sent to us after we announced the closure of art.earth. We include these here partly as a testament to the work our wonderful team managed to pull out of the hat between 2016 and 2023 but also to underline the importance of having...

First Friday, May 6

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: on death, dying & change

Borrowed Time: on death, dying & change Online, October 31 to November 3, 2021 (and at other times throughout 2021) What constitutes ‘a good death’? How do we know death, personally? What room do we make for the dead – within our relationships, our ways of...

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...

Workshop: We gather at the river with our Bone Songs

April 6-8 2018 Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL, UK with performance artist / cultural geographer Christos Galanis from 17.00 on Friday April 6 to 16.00 on Sunday April 8 an art.earth Short Course     We gather at the river with our Bone...

June 2022: Catherine Cartwright

Catherine Cartwright is our featured artist of the month. She is a painter / image maker who also has a community arts practice.

January 2021 – James Aldridge

James Aldridge is our featured member artist of the month for January 2021.

Aesthetics, Ethics and Nature

Aesthetics, Ethics and Nature Paul O'Brien Abstract Should we value baby seals over baby rats, just because most people believe that seals are cuter? If it's inappropriate to judge humans on aesthetic grounds, why is it appropriate to judge between species of animals...

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...

…in conversation with Yuli Somme

A conversation between Yuli Somme and Richard Povall on November 20 at 13.00 GMT.

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv