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 October 5

by art.earth | September 11, 2018 | First Friday, Past events | 0 Comments

Join us on October 5 for First Friday AND a meet-the-artists reception (FREE and open to all) As always, we gather at 1pm for a shared lunch – bring something to share. Around 2, we re-convene for our guest artist talk (with a slightly different format this month)....

Sue Deakin and Kari Furre

by art.earth | July 24, 2016 | Artwork, Our Events, Past events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

intimate sculpture, fish skin bowls, prints and drawings August 3 – October 15 2016 Closing Reception: Friday October 14, 17.00-19.00 in the Garden Room Gallery Dartington Space, Dartington Hall, Totnes TQ9 6EL Hours: Monday to Friday, 09.00 to 17.00 Additional hours...

September 2022: Sam Clark

by art.earth | September 1, 2022 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

Each month one of the art.earth Board of Directors selects an artist from the membership because they are particularly taken with their work. This month our Featured Artist is Sam Clark selected by Mary Waltham. Sam will be showing a series of new works at the Royal...

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...

Annique Goldenberg

by art.earth | October 31, 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 Antique Goldenberg, selected by Richard Povall...

Short courses in April and May

by art.earth | March 5, 2018 | coming soon, News, Our Events, Short Course | 0 Comments

In the next few months we are offering a number of short courses which may be of interest. All our courses are run on the Dartington estate, a medieval rural estate in southwest England encircled by the River Dart. We use the estate as our studio, our...

First Friday, May 7 2021

by art.earth | April 14, 2021 | First Friday | 0 Comments

First Fridays happen (surprise!) 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. Each month, after lunch, there is an informal presentation of work in progress...

Exhibition: KINdoms

by art.earth | September 7, 2018 | Past events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

11 September to 17 October in the Garden Room Gallery Meet-the-artist(s): Friday October 5, 14.00 to 15.30 (during First Friday which starts at 13.00) KINdoms: textiling with the more-than-human Curated by Patricia Brien KINdoms: Textiling with the more-than-human is...

First (2nd actually!) Friday January 8

by art.earth | December 2, 2020 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

First Fridays are our monthly series of informal artist get-togethers where the conversation may stray from the triassic to contemporary reusable plastics — and just about anywhere in between.The sessions last about an hour and are friendly and informal. Participants...

Transcribing Landscape

by art.earth | September 10, 2017 | coming soon, Our Events | 0 Comments

Coming in 2018, a short course led by poet Fiona Benson and art.earth's Richard Povall. First offered in 2016 as a Schumacher College short course, this refreshed version will have a distinctly art.earth flavour. If this is of interest please email us or join the...