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.

Nicky Cornwell

by art.earth | December 1, 2018 | 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. This month's selected artist is Nicky Cornwell (Instagram...

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...

First Friday, May 7 2021

by art.earth | April 14, 2021 | First Friday | 0 Comments

First Fridays happen (surprise!) 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. Each month, after lunch, there is an informal presentation of work in progress...

Orbis Terrarum

by art.earth | July 28, 2017 | Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

June 15 - July 24 2017 Orbis Terrarum an exhibition of work by Rachael Allain, Margaret Harland and Charlotte Price Rachael says: My artistic methodology allows for a reflection on the ruptures that exist between photographic lens and lens less optical devices. My...

First Friday, April 1

by art.earth | February 22, 2022 | First Friday, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

April’s First Friday takes place on April 1 starting at 13.00GMT/UTC+00. Guest artists are Adriana Minu a composer currently a Doctoral Researcher at University of Glasgow, writer and visual artist Samantha Clark who lives and works on Orkney and Giulia Mattera a performance artist from Rome.

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...

Lori Diggle (Devon)

by art.earth | April 30, 2020 | FFartwork-old | 0 Comments

Lori has sent us an audio walk: The Deer, the Duck & the Raven. Usually her walks are intended to be walks, happening in the places for which the sound walks are made. That's not possible at the moment, so she offers this in the spirit of imagination. Put your...

First Friday, April 6

by art.earth | March 1, 2018 | First Friday, Our Events | 0 Comments

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...

Helen Poynor – Earth Songs on Dartmoor

by art.earth | March 24, 2022 | Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

One-day workshop on May 27 on Dartmoor, with renowned movement artist Helen Poyner.

Farewell messages

by art.earth | March 1, 2023 | Our Events | 0 Comments

Below is a random sampling of letters sent to us after we announced the closure of art.earth. We include these here partly as a testament to the work our wonderful team managed to pull out of the hat between 2016 and 2023 but also to underline the importance of having...