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.

Gallery proposal form

by art.earth | November 5, 2016 | Past events, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

We've released proposal forms for the Garden Room Gallery, for group and solo exhibitions for 2017. Please find them here. The Gallery is still in an experimental phase. We're seeing what will work in the space and how best to organise and run it. For now, there is no...

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...

A Wider Sense of Community

by art.earth | October 23, 2018 | coming soon, News, Our Events, Short Course | 0 Comments

We have reluctantly decided not to run 'A Wider Sense of Community' this November. We had an almost unprecedented level of interest in the course, but insufficient take-up of places to make it viable for us to run it. Clearly we got something wrong here, so we will go...

Alice Fox

by art.earth | January 14, 2020 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

Featured artist, January/February 2020 My current work extends what formed the focus of my recently completed MA in Creative Practice. During the last two years I have been using my allotment plot as a source of materials for my work, exploring the potential of what...

Exhibition: Conversations with Weather

by art.earth | December 15, 2018 | Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

Friday, 11th January to Wednesday 6th March, 2019, Dartington Space Gallery This is an exhibition of work by three artists: Fiona Harrisson, Susan Kruse, Delia Salter, all working independently and all letting the wind, clouds, air temperature and/or precipitation...

Papers from The Home & The World

by art.earth | September 30, 2014 | Conference 2012, Essays & other writing, Past events | 0 Comments

Here is a list of papers / presentations from the 2012 The Home & The World conference held at Dartington Hall in June 2012. Find out more about the event The list of papers

Exhibition: KINdoms

by art.earth | September 7, 2018 | Past events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

11 September to 17 October in the Garden Room Gallery Meet-the-artist(s): Friday October 5, 14.00 to 15.30 (during First Friday which starts at 13.00) KINdoms: textiling with the more-than-human Curated by Patricia Brien KINdoms: Textiling with the more-than-human is...

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 Fridays launch: reminder

by art.earth | March 24, 2016 | First Friday, News, Past events | 0 Comments

A brief reminder that our first informal networking lunch takes place next week, on April 1st. First Fridays are informal bring-food-or-drink-to-share networking lunches, usually on the first Friday of each month, and often followed by an artist talk. From May...

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.