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.

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...

Papers from The Home & The World

Here is a list of papers / presentations from the 2012 The Home & The World conference held at Dartington Hall in June 2012. Find out more about the event The list of papers

Kinship Workshop with Katye Coe & Tom Goodwin

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...

First Friday, April 6

Join us on April 6 for First Friday As always, we gather at 1pm for a shared lunch – bring something to share. Around 2, we re-convene for our guest artist talk, this month by Donna Mitchell, hosted by Mark Leahy (who is an art.earth Director). Donna says: "I've come...

A Bundle of Sticks

A Bundle of Sticks Peter Ward   Abstract ‘‘Art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible’’ Paul Klee (1) “At the heart of today’s ecological crisis lies a terrible failure to understand the essence of our relationship with the natural world. One can of...

In Other Tongues @ Dark Mountain 2

IN OTHER TONGUES: THE MIGRATION HABITS OF STONES by Alyson Hallett 12th August, 2017 It’s August, 2001. Six months since my nan, Hilda Hallett, died. I loved my nan. She lived in a terraced, red-bricked house in Bridgwater, Somerset. We used to watch the wrestling on...

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...

John Fox & Sue Gill (Cumbria)

John Fox and partner Sue Gill are legendary community theatre pioneers formerly of Welfare State International. Now they together run Dead Good Guides, an artist-led company seeking a role for art that weaves it more fully into the fabric of our lives. John told us:...

December 2022: Tom Baskeyfield

In the quietness of night, I look out into the vast darkness of the universe with awe. In the spaces between drystones in a wall I am drawn with similar wonder. And in the rock faces of quarried galleries I am often brought to a standstill with reverence. It is in these brief statements that I have found the core of my practice over recent years.

Tasting the Change: residency

Art-Science hothouse residency: Tasting the change Saturday November 9 to Thursday November 14 2019 In November 2019 CCANW and Science Walden are hosting an Art-Science hothouse residency, a week of experimentation and conversation about working across disciplines for...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv