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.

Place is Learning Us

Place is learning us This paper examines and explains the motivation behind our performance walks. Our method involves a repeated research walk in which we look for the memories inscribed into place, and consider that whilst we are learning place, place is also...

Tina Scopa

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.   March 2018 Tina Scopa tinascopa.wixsite.com/website     What...

Kari Furre in multi-award winning film

Kari Furre wins film awardKari Furre - artist, swimmer, a Director of the Outdoor Swimming Society and one of the two leaders of our June short course Swimming: labour of imagination is featured in this wonderful film about swimming in Lake Windermere. It...

Short Course: Chris Drury & Kay Syrad

In this five-day intensive, Chris Drury shares his renowned practice of working with form, including whirlpool and vortex, fractal and wave patterns, exploring and investigating how aesthetic forms have the universal enfolded within them but are at the same time particular to individual experience.

First Friday April 5

First Fridays happen on the first Friday of every month, except January – so this is the first gathering of 2019. First Fridays is a gathering place for artists or anyone interested in the arts, an opportunity to share food and talk. Each month, after lunch, there is...

Gabi Gershuny on Feeding the Insatiable

Gabi Gershuny has written a piece about Feeding the Insatiable which took place early last month. More than a simple review, it's an interesting piece that picks up on the essential ideas from the summit.  You can read it here. It's posted on a really interesting site...

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...

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...

Borrowed Time keynote: Dr Rachel Clarke

Wednesday June 23, 2021 at 13.00 (video now available) ‘What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life. It brought me often to laughter and – several times – to tears. It sings with joy and kindness’ Robert Macfarlaneon...

Peter Ward

Our featured artist for November 2020 is Peter Ward.

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv