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)

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...

Borrowed Time: on death, dying & change

Borrowed Time: on death, dying & change Online, October 31 to November 3, 2021 (and at other times throughout 2021) What constitutes ‘a good death’? How do we know death, personally? What room do we make for the dead – within our relationships, our ways of...

A Wider Sense of Community

We have reluctantly decided not to run 'A Wider Sense of Community' this November. We had an almost unprecedented level of interest in the course, but insufficient take-up of places to make it viable for us to run it. Clearly we got something wrong here, so we will go...

Exhibition: Turn

TurnRachael Bennett and Kate PaxmanCurator: Steve BrownDartington Space Gallery  Friday October 4 2019 to Wednesday January 8 2020An exhibition about the liminal moment, observation, and the unknowable. Kate Paxman is an artist, researcher and educator at Plymouth...

The Residency Reports

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...

Postgraduate Forum: Extinction

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...

Feeding the Insatiable | Nov 2016

9 - 11 November 2016, Dartington Hall Feeding the Insatiable featured thinkers and creatives from across the world, with an opening keynote event from The Land Art Generator Initiative (Robert Ferry and Elizabeth Monoian) with ecoartist / producer Chris...

Amanda Pellatt (Devon)

Amanda is an old friend of art.earth and predecessor Aune Head Arts. She is a painter and makes beautiful artist books.  If there is time, she will introduce this work - otherwise we'll put it back to June.  [Go back to May First Friday]   A hand-bound sketchbook that...

Menuhin’s Violin

July 29 to August 29 During August, Menuhin’s Violin will be installed in the gallery. This is a new commission from Live Music Now, who say: Live Music Now have commissioned a collaborative musical-sculptural installation that will celebrate Yehudi...

Radical Landscapes exhibition

Camilla Nelson, co-leader of our short course Branching Out: collaborating with trees this June talks about the Radical Landscapes exhibition she curated earlier this year. The exhibition took place from March 22 to April 20 at The Plough in Torrington,...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv