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.

Poetry of the Wild

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

Exhibition: Jan O’Highway

VANITAS an exhibition by Jan O'Highway Garden Room Gallery, June 1 to 13. Emerging from darkness… reminiscent of a 17th century Vanitas still life, the strong chiaroscuro of these images emphasizes the underlying structures of plants in all their forms – seed to leaf...

Exhibition: Evolving the Forest

Evolving the ForestWednesday June 19 to Wednesday September 4, 2019 Dartington Space Gallery and the Green Table CaféThe essential spirit of the coming-together of voices, thoughts and opinion to the annual gatherings at Dartington convened by art.earth is...

Susan Derges

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 (September 2020) selected artist is...

January 2021 – James Aldridge

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

First Friday August 6

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...

First Friday – December 7

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...

Here and There

Here and There: Retracing our Steps The labyrinth is an ancient symbol relating to wholeness and contemplation, and can be used as an opportunity to slow down, quieten the mind, to relax, to meditate, to pray, to solve problems or simply to enjoy a recreational...

Displacement from sensory connections

Displacement from sensory connections to cultural identity and place, and an examination of some consequences for human and environmental wellbeing   Abstract The modern world facilitates increasing disconnection from land, cultural identity and each other. Yet...

Exhibition: Every child has a voice

Every Child has a Voice Friday September 6 to Wednesday October 2 2019, Dartington Space Gallery, Dartington Space, Totnes Every Child has a Voice is a project by Soundart Radio that invites all young people to broadcast. Over the last year, Shelley Hodgson and...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv