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.

Myka Baum

by art.earth | May 1, 2020 | 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 response from that artist to some questions and a discussion, together with some examples of their work. This month’s selected artist is Myka...

Lu La Buzz (Devon)

by art.earth | May 26, 2020 | FFartwork-old | 0 Comments

Clay HUGS - A gift from the Bovey Basin HUGS is a special type of clay known only to clay workers in the Bovey Basin. It occurs where two distinct seams of Ball Clay merge together and become one. The clay HUGS featured above, which I have dressed in orange ribbon to...

First Friday, February 7

by art.earth | January 23, 2020 | Past events | 0 Comments

Welcome to the first First Friday of 2020. The visiting artist this month will be painter/printmaker Frances Gynn RWA invited by art.earth Director Julia Bond. More information about Fran to follow. Frances Gynn spent 20 years in graphic design and botanical...

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...

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.

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...

Polly Morgan: artist talk

by art.earth | March 1, 2016 | News, Our Events | 0 Comments

After the First Friday lunch on May 6, artist Polly Morgan will talk about her extraordinary contemporary taxidermy: stunning sculptural objects that revere and seem sometimes fearful of the animals and birds whose bodies she uses in her work. BOOK HERE (free) ...

A watery June

by art.earth | December 21, 2017 | Our Events, Primary, Short Course, Summit | 0 Comments

A Watery June This year we're celebrating water and the state of being fluid. We'll be at it all year in one way or another, but June is where it all comes together. Why not come and spend the entire month with us? First, we host the UK's first Global...

Forum: Emergency Response Time

by art.earth | October 19, 2019 | Our Events, Past events | 0 Comments

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...

First Friday August 6

by art.earth | July 9, 2021 | First Friday, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

First Fridays are our regular gathering for anyone interested in art and the world around us. It's not just for artists - anyone can come and anyone can participate. Since May 2020 we have been meeting online but the August 2021 First Friday marks the beginning of...