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.

March 2021: Katie Taylor

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 (March 2021)...

Borrowed Time: A Celebratory Event

An invitation to participate in A Celebratory Gathering  LIVE from the Rowan Tree and the International Space Station* Designed and facilitated by Michelle Atherton A Borrowed Time event Friday October 15 at 18.30 BST/UTC+1   How do we publicly acknowledge the lives...

December 2022: Tom Baskeyfield

In the quietness of night, I look out into the vast darkness of the universe with awe. In the spaces between drystones in a wall I am drawn with similar wonder. And in the rock faces of quarried galleries I am often brought to a standstill with reverence. It is in these brief statements that I have found the core of my practice over recent years.

The Home & The World redux

It's only taken us four-and-a-half years, but we've finally published the papers and reports from The Home & The World, our first creative summit which took place in June 2012. This event was produced not by art.earth but by the wonderful team at erstwhile Aune...

A Wider Sense of Community

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...

Short Course: Swimming: labour of imagination

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...

Borrowed Time keynote: Dr Rachel Clarke

Wednesday June 23, 2021 at 13.00 (video now available) ‘What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life. It brought me often to laughter and – several times – to tears. It sings with joy and kindness’ Robert Macfarlaneon...

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...

Exhibition: Berghoff & Russell

Saturday January 11 2020, until further notice. Dartington Space Gallery   Two recent art graduates Christiane Berghoff (Falmouth University) and Ann Russell (University of the Arts, Camberwell) are experimenting with materials and forms using nature as component...

Lu La Buzz (Devon)

Clay HUGS - A gift from the Bovey Basin HUGS is a special type of clay known only to clay workers in the Bovey Basin. It occurs where two distinct seams of Ball Clay merge together and become one. The clay HUGS featured above, which I have dressed in orange ribbon to...

We continue to publish as art.earth Books

There is also an extensive archive at art.earth tv