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.

Branching Out – update

by art.earth | February 19, 2016 | News, Our Events | 0 Comments

We've made the hard decision to cancel the Branching Out short course because of insufficient take-up. We're working with a new idea within the short course structure at Schumacher College, and perhaps the structure isn't quite right for these kinds of creative...

Kinship Workshop with Katye Coe & Tom Goodwin

by Minou Polleros | April 7, 2022 | Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

Sunday 26th June 2022 9:30 - 16:00 / Dartington Hall Estate/Outdoors/Along the river Dart £40/ A woman with red hair and dark blue clothes leans back horizontally onto a collection of large moss-covered rocks at the edge of a river. She pushes her feet into the rocks...

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...

Negotiating the Surrender

by art.earth | March 7, 2019 | Our Events, Past events | 0 Comments

Negotiating the Surrender led by Dougald Hine, co-founder of The Dark Mountain Projectand A School Called Home, An evening talk on Thursday June 6, 19.30 at Dartington Hall, Devon A follow-on seminar on Friday June 7, 09.15 to 16.00 also at...

Matter, meaning and making

by art.earth | October 8, 2013 | Artists, Conference 2012 | 0 Comments

Matter, meaning and making: a contextual approach to sustainable development Abstract The term sustainable development is often criticized for having lost credibility due to a lack of clear-cut delineation. This contribution agrees that the term suffers from a...

Lucinda Burgess

by art.earth | December 29, 2018 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

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. This month’s selected artist is Lucinda Burgess...

Exhibition: Evolving the Forest

by art.earth | June 18, 2019 | Our Events, Past events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

Evolving the ForestWednesday June 19 to Wednesday September 4, 2019 Dartington Space Gallery and the Green Table CaféThe essential spirit of the coming-together of voices, thoughts and opinion to the annual gatherings at Dartington convened by art.earth is...

Liquidscapes

by art.earth | January 11, 2018 | Past events, Summit | 0 Comments

Liquidscapes: tales and telling of watery worlds and fluid states June 20 to 22 2018 • Dartington Hall @liquidscapes18 | @artdotearth A three-day international gathering bringing together creative thinkers and doers to explore physically and figuratively...

Exhibition: Coulson, Hudson, Phillips & Soriano

by art.earth | June 11, 2018 | Our Events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

June 20 to July 25 in the Garden Room Gallery Water, in all its forms, and locations, is the underlying theme which inspires all four artists in this exhibition. From that starting point they each have their own responses. Sue Coulson explores the seascape of South...

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)....