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, September 2

by art.earth | August 15, 2022 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

Main image: Images from Tree Lines – an anthology of visual poems exploring the experience of tree by Walter Lewis (this image has been cropped for formatting requirements) Ecoart - what is it and how do we make It count? https://vimeo.com/755449186 First...

Exhibition: Conversations with Weather

by art.earth | December 15, 2018 | Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

Friday, 11th January to Wednesday 6th March, 2019, Dartington Space Gallery This is an exhibition of work by three artists: Fiona Harrisson, Susan Kruse, Delia Salter, all working independently and all letting the wind, clouds, air temperature and/or precipitation...

Exhibition: Orbis Terrarum

by art.earth | July 12, 2017 | Our Events, Past events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

An exhibition of work by local artists Rachael Allain, Margaret Harland and Charlotte Price. The artists explore the unacknowledged qualities of landscape reflecting those interfaces between water, land, path and field. There is a constant endeavour to portray the...

Place is Learning Us

by art.earth | October 5, 2013 | Artists, Conference 2012 | 0 Comments

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...

First Friday, October 4

by art.earth | September 24, 2019 | First Friday, Past events | 0 Comments

Next week it's First Friday (October 4). First Fridays happen on the first Friday of every month, except January and August. First Fridays is a gathering place for artists or anyone interested in the arts, an opportunity to share food and talk. Each month, after...

Publication: The Ephemeral River

by art.earth | July 15, 2019 | News, Our Events, Past events, Special | 0 Comments

In the summer of 2018 art.earth produced a special event for the Centre for Contemporary Art & the Natural World (CCANW), Yatoo (S. Korea) and Science Walden (S. Korea). This extraordinarily beautiful and art-rich book is the result (and is only available in print...

In conversation with…Sophie Strand

by art.earth | September 1, 2021 | Borrowed Time, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

In the next in our series of Borrowed Time conversations, we introduce American writer Sophie Strand. Sophie is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Give her a salamander and a stone and she’ll write you a love story. Sophie was raised by house cats, puff balls, possums, raccoons, and an opinionated, crippled goose. In every neighborhood she’s ever lived in she has been known as “the walker”. She believes strongly that all thinking happens interstitially – between beings, ideas, differences, mythical gradients.

Stephen Jenkinson talk published

by art.earth | December 15, 2020 | Borrowed Time, Essays & other writing, News, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

On Friday December 11 art.earth hosted a conversation with Stephen Jenkinson of Orphan Wisdom. Led by Christos Galanis, the conversation ranged across topics related to the Borrowed Time themes of death, dying and change and we as individuals and as a society deal...

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...

Lara’s Raspberry & coconut muffins

by art.earth | May 1, 2020 | News, Recipes | 0 Comments

from art.earth member Lara Goodband Raspberry jam polenta & coconut muffins (gluten free as it happens) Created on clearing out the house in Scarborough100g polenta100g rice flour *50g dessicated coconut *2 teaspoons of baking powder & half of bicarbonate110g...