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 December 2, 2016

Oliver Raymond-Barker was one of the UK artists selected to represent the UK at this year's South Korean Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 'Breathing Art'. UK participation in this event is curated by the Centre for Contemporary Art & the Natural World. Oliver will...

First Friday, April 6

Join us on April 6 for First Friday As always, we gather at 1pm for a shared lunch – bring something to share. Around 2, we re-convene for our guest artist talk, this month by Donna Mitchell, hosted by Mark Leahy (who is an art.earth Director). Donna says: "I've come...

Alyson Hallett – Migrating Stones

Migrating Stones Poet Alyson Hallett is co-facilitating the short course Embodying the Line this May (with choreographer Deborah  Black). This piece was recorded as part of the 'Nature' series on Radio 4 (and caused some controversy at the time). BBC Radio 4:  Nature,...

Exhibition: Orbis Terrarum

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...

Remembrance Day for Lost Species

Remembrance Day for Lost Species on November 30 is a chance each year to explore the stories of extinct and critically endangered species, cultures, lifeways, and ecological communities.  RDLS is a project of the wondrous ONCA gallery. Whilst emphasising that...

January 2021 – James Aldridge

James Aldridge is our featured member artist of the month for January 2021.

Exhibition: Hambly, Mellings, Ward

Group Exhibition:  Emma Hambly, Jenny Mellings and Peter Ward The exhibition is now open in the Garden Room Gallery and continues until February 14. Join us for a meet-the-artists reception on Friday, 12 January from 18.00 to 19.30. Exhibition overview:   for Emma,...

Susanna Bauer exhibition

'Leaf Works' Innovation Centre, Exeter University March 1 to May 26, 2016 Susanna Bauer’s leaf works pay homage to nature as well as holding up a mirror to the viewer. Mainly constructed with dry leaves and cotton yarn the pieces hold a fine balance of fragility and...

Exhibition: A Quiet Collaboration

October 19-31 2018 Dartington Space Gallery (formerly the Garden Room Gallery) Artists Sara Downham-Lotto and Stacey Righton show work which has been influenced by the use of natural materials in collaborations and explorations with others.  For Sara, the work is a...

December 2022: Tom Baskeyfield

In the quietness of night, I look out into the vast darkness of the universe with awe. In the spaces between drystones in a wall I am drawn with similar wonder. And in the rock faces of quarried galleries I am often brought to a standstill with reverence. It is in these brief statements that I have found the core of my practice over recent years.

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv