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.

Light exchange

by art.earth | September 9, 2017 | coming soon, Our Events | 0 Comments

Coming in 2019. Exploring light, capturing light, reflecting light. Experiment with camera-less techniques as a form of reflecting landscape. If this is of interest please email us or join the mailing list to ensure you will receive information as it becomes...

First Friday, August 7

by art.earth | July 3, 2020 | First Friday, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

After gentle persuasion from our First Friday regulars, we hosted First Friday in August. Usually it's time to take a break for the summer, but times are not usual and there seems to be an appetite to continue over the summer...so here we are.Read more about how to...

March 2021: Katie Taylor

by art.earth | March 1, 2021 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

Each month a member of the art.earth Board of Directors selects a member to feature, to become our Artist of the Month. What follows is a response from that artist to some questions and a discussion, together with some examples of their work. This month (March 2021)...

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...

Exhibition: When Plants Remember

by art.earth | October 26, 2018 | Our Events | 0 Comments

Siobhan McDonald Crystalline - When Plants Remember 1 November, 2018 to 9 January, 2019 in the Dartington Space Gallery Crystalline, When plants remember - At The Edge of Visibility, is a work which premiered at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (CCI Paris) in...

Short Course: Embodying the Line

by art.earth | September 10, 2017 | Our Events, Recent, Short Course | 0 Comments

Monday May 21 @ 14.30 to Friday May 25 @ 16.00 Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL, UK an art.earth Residential Short Course with poet Alyson Hallett and dance artist Deborah Black and guest artist Phil Smith Embodying the Line: writing, movement...

Watch the January First Friday

by art.earth | January 9, 2021 | News, Our Events | 0 Comments

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.

First Friday March 6

by art.earth | February 25, 2020 | First Friday | 0 Comments

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 lunch, there is an informal presentation of...

First Friday, March 5

by art.earth | February 6, 2021 | 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...

Meet-the-artist June 9

by art.earth | June 3, 2017 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events | 0 Comments

We had a truly excellent conversation at First Friday 2 June 2017 with Jan O'Highway guest artist. Nick Hart-Davies says: "It was a first for me - a really interesting talk about art!" There's another opportunity to meet Jan at a meet-the-artist reception at the...