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.

Getting ready to launch The Ephemeral River

by art.earth | May 30, 2018 | News, Our Events, Special | 0 Comments

In less than a fortnight's time we launch The Ephemeral River (a Global Nomadic Art Project) with 14 artists from across the world. The event it co-facilitated by art.earth's own Richard Povall and by artist-teacher Cat Radford. There is also a wonderful array of...

First Friday, November 4

by art.earth | October 24, 2016 | First Friday, Past events, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

First Fridays are a time to gather and share - food, ideas, art, gossip. First Fridays is entirely informal: a bring-something-to-share lunch followed usually by some kind of artist presentation. Our guest artist this month is Mat Osmond, writer and illustrator. n his...

Gabi Gershuny on Feeding the Insatiable

by art.earth | December 16, 2016 | News, Past events, Research | 0 Comments

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...

the impossible gaze of the ecological subject

by art.earth | October 8, 2013 | Conference 2012 | 0 Comments

the impossible gaze of the ecological subject Alex Murdin We are now living in the Athropocene. This informal term, coined in 2000 by Paul Crutzen is now common currency amongst scientists and describes the current time period in the geological scale where...

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...

In Other Tongues – cfp

by art.earth | November 21, 2016 | Past events, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

In Other Tongues: creating metaphysics, embodying language June 7-9 2017 [Residential Short Course June 10-14] Venue: Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EA, UK DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS 22.00 GMT January 5, 2017 art.earth and Schumacher College invite you to submit a...

Nicky Cornwell

by art.earth | December 1, 2018 | 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. This month's selected artist is Nicky Cornwell (Instagram...

Richard’s Victoria Sponge

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

Warning: not in the least vegan...but reasonably low in gluten. Richard's Victoria Sponge This is a variation on the official Women's Institute cake. It also breaks most of the rules for making a sponge cake but seems to work fine for me. There's a picture of the cake...

In Other Tongues @ Dark Mountain 3

by art.earth | August 18, 2017 | Essays & other writing, Past events | 0 Comments

AN UNDERSWELL OF DIVINATION by Mat Osmond 17th August, 2017 A virus that infects all other areas of thinking In the 1970s and ’80’s the poet Ted Hughes and the sculptor and printmaker Leonard Baskin worked together on a number of books of illustrated poetry. Among...

Plans for May First Friday

by art.earth | April 24, 2020 | First Friday | 0 Comments

If you're planning to join us for our virtual First Friday on May 1, we've just published three recipes for you to make to share with someone else. It's not too late to include your recipe...send it to us and we'll try to include it this time (if not, then next)....