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.

October 2022: Louisa Chase

Louisa Chase Born 1968, England. Migrated 2004 to Aotearoa, New Zealand. Returned (for as yet unknown timeframe) to England 2022 Dancing with Trees (photographic image) Ancestral Shadows (still image from video) [A note on Ancestral Shadows (above R): We must make new...

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...

Sweet May…

There's quite a bit happening at art.earth in the first week of May. It must be spring fever. First Friday, 6 May First Fridays (which began last month) start with an informal bring-something-to-share lunch followed by an artist talk / sharing of work. This month, the...

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:...

First Friday July 6

Join us on July 6 for First Friday AND a meet-the-artists reception (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). This...

A Wider Sense of Community

We have reluctantly decided not to run 'A Wider Sense of Community' this November. We had an almost unprecedented level of interest in the course, but insufficient take-up of places to make it viable for us to run it. Clearly we got something wrong here, so we will go...

April 2022: Marlene Creates

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 Newfoundland artist Marlene Creates chosen by Walter Lewis. To accompany this feature,...

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

Exhibition: Evolving the Forest

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...

Alyson Hallett – Migrating Stones

Migrating Stones Poet Alyson Hallett is co-facilitating the short course Embodying the Line this May (with choreographer Deborah  Black). This piece was recorded as part of the 'Nature' series on Radio 4 (and caused some controversy at the time). BBC Radio 4:  Nature,...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv