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.

Walter Lewis (Yorkshire)

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

Photographer Walter Lewis has sent us a few images I made at the start of isolation from which we've selected two to include here. The series is currently called ‘Aching and Angry’. Walter says that they could be described as about the complacency which is shown...

June 2021: Haruko Joyce Okano

by art.earth | June 3, 2021 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

Each month a member of the art.earth Board of Directors selects a member to feature, to become our 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 (June 2021)...

March 2021: Katie Taylor

by art.earth | March 1, 2021 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

Place is Learning Us

by art.earth | October 5, 2013 | Artists, Conference 2012 | 0 Comments

Place is learning us This paper examines and explains the motivation behind our performance walks. Our method involves a repeated research walk in which we look for the memories inscribed into place, and consider that whilst we are learning place, place is also...

First Friday May 1

by art.earth | April 4, 2020 | First Friday, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

RECIPESand ARTWORK now PUBLISHED. We will be holding a virtual gathering for First Friday on May 1.

Short Course: Swimming: labour of imagination

by art.earth | March 9, 2020 | Our Events, Short Course | 0 Comments

Swimming: labour of imagination an art.earth residential short course [last offered] June 2018 Dartington Hall, Devon, UKIn 2018 art.earth ran a highly successful short course led by Kari Furre and Nancy Sinclair. Swimming: labour of imagination brought together...

Negotiating the Surrender

by art.earth | March 7, 2019 | Our Events, Past events | 0 Comments

Negotiating the Surrender led by Dougald Hine, co-founder of The Dark Mountain Projectand A School Called Home, An evening talk on Thursday June 6, 19.30 at Dartington Hall, Devon A follow-on seminar on Friday June 7, 09.15 to 16.00 also at...

Exhibition: My Looking Ripens Things

by art.earth | March 19, 2018 | Our Events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

Karen Lorenz and Kate Walters exhibition My Looking Ripens Things* is on exhibition in the Garden Room Gallery from 12 April to 15 May Join us for a meet-the-artists reception on Thursday, 12th April from 18.00 to 19.30. Overview: Karen and Kate are inspired by their...

In Other Tongues film

by art.earth | November 8, 2017 | News, Past events | 0 Comments

We have released a short documentary film from June’s In Other Tongues. Made by Rosie Jones, with contributions from Ralph Whitehead and Sarah Gray, the gives an excellent flavour of the event, its people, and its range of intellectual explorations.

Liquidscapes – registration open

by art.earth | November 27, 2017 | Our Events, Summit | 0 Comments

Liquidscapes: tales and telling of watery worlds and fluid states June 20 to 22 2018 • Dartington Hall @liquidscapes18 | @artdotearth A three-day international gathering bringing together creative thinkers and doers to explore physically and figuratively...