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 April substitute

by art.earth | April 3, 2020 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events | 0 Comments

For April's First Friday and in lieu of the ability to meet face-to-face we'd like to share some songs from Hugh Nankivell who should have been performing today. He's been working on some 'songs for loneliness' and for sharing. - a musical hug. Thanks, Hugh....

Carol Sharp

by art.earth | February 1, 2019 | 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. Carol Sharp This month’s selected artist is Carol Sharp...

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...

First Friday, July 3 All Change? (video)

by art.earth | June 10, 2020 | First Friday, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

Join us for the summer gathering of First Friday on July 3. This month is a little different We will gather on Zoom at 1300hrs BST to share conversation. If you're unsure about how to do this there is a special page on the website to tell you how to connect.Share...

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 May 1

by art.earth | April 4, 2020 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

RECIPESand ARTWORK now PUBLISHED. We will be holding a virtual gathering for First Friday on May 1.

First Friday November 4: Sense of Place

by art.earth | October 14, 2022 | First Friday, Our Events | 0 Comments

First Fridays are our informal gatherings/sharings, open to all. They started life as a physical place to meet up for a shared lunch followed by a live or occasionally remote presentation by an artist or group. Since May 2020 we have been gathering online which has...

Anna Chrystal Stephens

by art.earth | October 3, 2017 | 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. October 2017 Anna Chrystal Stephens www.annachrystal.com This...

Poetry of the Wild

by art.earth | October 8, 2013 | Artists, Conference 2012 | 0 Comments

Poetry of the Wild/ Mapping the Soul of Communities with Poetry and Art Ana Flores Find tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stone and good in everything. Read the full paper

First Friday – December 7

by art.earth | November 23, 2018 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events | 0 Comments

This month's First Friday (on December 7) has a kind-of-end-of-term feel, or the-holidays-are-coming feel, depending on your outlook. This is not only the last gathering for 2018, but the last until February 2019 as we don't get together on the first Friday in...