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.

Film: The Magnitude of All Things

by art.earth | October 18, 2021 | Borrowed Time, Our Events, Past events, Recent | 0 Comments

Not yet in general release, this is a special screening (for Borrowed TIme) of the highly acclaimed director Jennifer Abbott’s film The Magnitude of All Things; the online screening is followed by an interview and discussion with the director. “It was grief. I knew it...

Exhibition: Stream

by art.earth | August 22, 2018 | Our Events, Previous exhibitions | 0 Comments

September 7 to 9 in the Garden Room Gallery Part of Stream, a three-day festival of concourse and discourse celebrating the human-scaled, contemporary arts education of Dartington College of Arts since 1961. Eight years after its closure, ex-students are planning a...

March 2022: Nicola Coe

by art.earth | March 1, 2022 | Artist of the month | 0 Comments

Nicola Coe is our featured artist of the month for March 22. An ‘artist who makes work with nature, for nature’.

Getting ready to launch The Ephemeral River

by art.earth | May 30, 2018 | News, Our Events, Special | 0 Comments

In less than a fortnight's time we launch The Ephemeral River (a Global Nomadic Art Project) with 14 artists from across the world. The event it co-facilitated by art.earth's own Richard Povall and by artist-teacher Cat Radford. There is also a wonderful array of...

Sentient Performativities

by art.earth | June 14, 2022 | Past events, Recent, Summit | 0 Comments

Sentient Performativities: thinking alongside the human is art.earth’s annual gathering and takes place from June 26-30.

Carol Sharp

by art.earth | February 1, 2019 | 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. Carol Sharp This month’s selected artist is Carol Sharp...

First Friday: Fern Leigh Albert

by art.earth | November 19, 2017 | First Friday, Past events | 0 Comments

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,...

Art in a post-carbon world

by art.earth | September 10, 2017 | coming soon, Our Events | 0 Comments

Coming in 2018, this residential short courses explore creativity and aesthetics within the context of living in a post carbon world. It explores how artists can respond anew to a world no longer reliant on extraction and exploitation of limited resources. If this is...

Gabi Gershuny on Feeding the Insatiable

by art.earth | December 16, 2016 | News, Past events, Research | 0 Comments

Gabi Gershuny has written a piece about Feeding the Insatiable which took place early last month. More than a simple review, it's an interesting piece that picks up on the essential ideas from the summit. You can read it here. It's posted on a really interesting site...

2 exhibitions at Dartington Space

by art.earth | July 9, 2016 | Artists, Artwork, Our Events | 0 Comments

There are currently two exhibitions open at Dartington Space in the new Space Gallery programme by art.earth. Nessie Reid's The Milking Parlour and Exchange by Chris Drury and Kay Syrad. Both projects were produced by Cape Farewell are open during office and some...