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.

First Friday, November 5 (13.00GMT)

by art.earth | October 11, 2021 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

First Fridays happen on the first Friday of every month. First Fridays is a gathering place for artists or anyone interested in the arts, an opportunity to share food and talk. We're still meeting virtually (on Zoom). Perhaps we'll start to nudge back towards some...

Invitational – exhibition now open

by art.earth | November 27, 2017 | Our Events, Previous exhibitions, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Our Invitational remains open until January 4 2018. This exhibition features work by art.earth members and friends with a focus on artists whose work celebrates and sometimes mourns for the precious planet on which we all live. The work in this exhibition...

Carol Sharp

by art.earth | February 1, 2019 | 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. Carol Sharp This month’s selected artist is Carol Sharp...

Christiane’s Make Do & Mend Soup

by art.earth | April 24, 2020 | Recipes | 0 Comments

Make do and Mend Soup from Christiane Berghoff 1 onion¼ celeriac1parsnip2 carrots1 Stalk of a broccoli1 big slice of a butternut squash1 leek ( I often use the green parts in soups and use the white otherwise)1-3 glove of garlic, to your taste½ cup of pearl barley ...

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...

Exhibition: Being-with, Making-with

by art.earth | January 27, 2019 | Our Events, Past events, Previous exhibitions | 1 Comment

Being-with, Making-with Friday March 8 to Wednesday May 1, 2019, Dartington Space Gallery The artists in this new show, Nicky Cornwell, Karen Hawkins, Judith Israel and Jenny Thorburn, first encountered each other in May 2018 on an art.earth short course called...

First Friday, April 1

by art.earth | February 22, 2022 | First Friday, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

April’s First Friday takes place on April 1 starting at 13.00GMT/UTC+00. Guest artists are Adriana Minu a composer currently a Doctoral Researcher at University of Glasgow, writer and visual artist Samantha Clark who lives and works on Orkney and Giulia Mattera a performance artist from Rome.

Workshop: We gather at the river with our Bone Songs

by art.earth | February 24, 2018 | Our Events, Recent, Short Course | 0 Comments

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...

Postgraduate Forum: Extinction

by art.earth | October 18, 2021 | Borrowed Time, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

In collaboration with our good colleagues at Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School we are offering a postgraduate forum as part of Borrowed Time. Wednesday 3 November 2021, 09.15-16.00 GMT Keynote: Mirko Nikolić Extinction is an online postgraduate symposium...

The Residency Reports

by art.earth | August 17, 2022 | Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

We have been pleasurably hosting a residency with four students from Dartington's MA Arts & Place course here on the Dartington estate in the wondrous (if somewhat incipient) High Cross House. For the past two weeks Mary, Emma, Alison & Gavin have been working...