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.

GNAP UK 2018

The Ephemeral River (dancing, speaking, singing, laughing) A Global Nomadic Art Project The Global Nomadic Art Project Global Nomadic Art Projects bring together Nature Artists[i] from around the world in order to work and live together. They were founded on the idea...

Exhibition: Amélie Beaudroit, Agata Engelman, Elli Lestas

Exhibition overview:  Amélie and Agata Engelman share a passion for examining aspects of today’s plants and their supporting landscape/environment along with a concern over the consequences of human legacy and climate change.  Elli Lestas’ work also responds to...

Exhibition: Illuminate

July 26 to September 5 in the Garden Room Gallery Closing reception: Friday August 31, 18.00 to 19.30 Abstract paintings by ArtsLab Director Sara Downham-Lotto made with, for and about music. Sara says: ‘What music can do is reinforce peoples’ belief in themselves. It...

…in conversation with Pascale Petit

A conversation between Pascale Petit and Mat Osmond on Friday October 30 starting at 13.00 GMT.

Forum: Emergency Response Time

This event takes place Friday November 15 at the Ship Studio at Dartington. Tea/coffee/registration will be available from 9.00 and we kick off at 09.30. We will finish around 16.00. The day will explore the relationships between artists and those with other...

Watch the January First Friday

We've posted the video from the January 8 First Friday. Watch it here The next First Friday takes place February 5th and as always starts at 13.00GMT. More details available soon on our front page.  

Farewell messages

Below is a random sampling of letters sent to us after we announced the closure of art.earth. We include these here partly as a testament to the work our wonderful team managed to pull out of the hat between 2016 and 2023 but also to underline the importance of having...

2 exhibitions at Dartington Space

There are currently two exhibitions open at Dartington Space in the new Space Gallery programme by art.earth. Nessie Reid's The Milking Parlour and Exchange by Chris Drury and Kay Syrad. Both projects were produced by Cape Farewell are open during office and some...

First Friday October 7

The Sustainable Darkroom https://vimeo.com/758882683 Soil Chromatography © Hannah Fletcher First Fridays are our informal gatherings/sharings, open to all. They started life as a physical place to meet up for a shared lunch followed by a live or occasionally remote...

Mark Leahy (Devon)

Mark says: I will talk about 9X9 - a set of poems under constraint: As my response to the hyperlocal commission from Arts and Culture Exeter I made a set of 9 square visual poems, using the first 9 square numbers, and found images in square format as the initial...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv