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.

Gallery proposal form

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...

December at art.earth

Lots of things happening in early December. We've just posted our Featured Artist of the Month for December. Each month one of the art.earth Directors chooses an art.earth member whose work has caught their attention. This month's artist is Simon Lee Dicker of...

First Friday, April 2021

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...

Swimming short course?

In 2018 we ran a highly successful short course with Kari Furre and Nancy Sinclair. Swimming: labour of imagination brought together people from many directions to explore their love of the water and their love of creativity. We are now exploring running the course...

Cathy Fitzgerald

Each month one of our Directors chooses an art.earth member to become ‘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’s selected artist is Cathy Fitzgerald...

May 2022: Katrina Brown

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 UK based performance artist & choreographer Katrina Brown chosen by Minou Tsambika...

First Friday, February 7

Welcome to the first First Friday of 2020. The visiting artist this month will be painter/printmaker Frances Gynn RWA invited by art.earth Director Julia Bond.  More information about Fran to follow. Frances Gynn spent 20 years in graphic design and botanical...

January 2023: Kyra Clegg

Like the seabird feathers, the natural materials that I collect and use in my work already have their own back-story which, if possible, I try to incorporate into the works I make. The roots, stones and other materials from nature are the main motivators in my ongoing studio work. I find artistic freedom in this gathering and collaboration – exploring diverse temporal and spatial connections which these other realities offer

First Friday, December 4

Join us for December’s First Friday.

First Friday August 6

First Fridays are our regular gathering for anyone interested in art and the world around us. It's not just for artists - anyone can come and anyone can participate. Since May 2020 we have been meeting online but the August 2021 First Friday marks the beginning of...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv