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: Fern Leigh Albert

Join us on December 1st for this month's First Friday - the last for 2017. We won't be meeting in January, so this is your last chance to gather and share and natter until February. As always, we gather at 1pm for a shared lunch - bring something to share. Around 2,...

…in conversation with Yuli Somme

A conversation between Yuli Somme and Richard Povall on November 20 at 13.00 GMT.

Peter Ward

Our featured artist for November 2020 is Peter Ward.

First Friday, September 2

Main image: Images from Tree Lines – an anthology of visual poems exploring the experience of tree by Walter Lewis (this image has been cropped for formatting requirements) Ecoart - what is it and how do we make It count? https://vimeo.com/755449186 First...

First keynote announced for Borrowed Time

We're delighted to announce the first keynote event at Borrowed Time, a Butoh-inspired performance by Paul Michael Henry. Paul Michael Henry is a Scottish performance artist, dancer and musician. His work is informed by Butoh dance, punk rock and ritual, and is...

Jess Allen

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 Jess Allen, selected by Minou...

Postgraduate Forum: Extinction

In collaboration with our good colleagues at Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School we are offering a postgraduate forum as part of Borrowed Time. Wednesday 3 November 2021, 09.15-16.00 GMT Keynote: Mirko Nikolić Extinction is an online postgraduate symposium...

Publication: The Ephemeral River

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...

Gallery proposal form

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...

Yan Wang Preston

Each month (or thereabouts!) one of the art.earth Directors chooses an artist-member to be featured as Artist of the Month. This month's featured artist, selected by Richard Povall, is Yan Wang Preston Header image: Making the red line (Yangtze River, China, 2011)  ...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv