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.

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 still purchase our publications. Books while stocks last + eBooks.

You can also read some of the many responses to our farewell message.

A huge thank you all who participated and otherwise engaged with us. The world still needs you!

Caroline Hyde-Brown

My embroidery is a creative response to the transient nature of the places we work and live in. I create art to connect with others and my practice challenges the distinction between fine art and textiles. Thematic research is underpinned by the constant study of...

The art and politics of forests

Deep Sustainability and the Art & Politics of Forests Cathy Fitzgerald (NZ/Ireland) www.ecoartfilm.com   Abstract This article describes the work in forest policy development and contemporary arts practice of New Zealander, Irish based experimental film-maker...

First Friday, May 5

In this month's First Friday, sound artists Tony Whitehead and Sarah Grey will be talking about their work in the landscape. Tony Whitehead is a south Devon based artist interested in animal voice, particularly bird song. He has been involved in listening and sound...

from Arran Stibbe

Dear all, I recently completed a fascinating piece of research for a global environmental charity.  They gave me permission to share it with you so long as I didn’t mention the name of the charity. I enjoyed this because it was putting ecolinguistics into practical...

New book from Phil Smith

The MK Myth a walkable novelPhil Smith & K the world’s first walkable novel Every place has its stories. But in some places those stories get forgotten and distorted, even tarmacked and concreted over. This is nowhere more true than in Milton Keynes, where the...

Whatever next? from Triarchy Press authors

from our friends at Triarchy Press   Last month I asked our authors for their thoughts, hopes, suggestions, fears, proposals about how the world might look after the Coronavirus pandemic... and what we might do to bring about necessary change.I've assembled some of...

First Friday, September 3

Ah well, summer's over. But it's the First Friday in September and we gather once again at 13.00 BST/UTC+1., This month our guest artists are Evgenia Emets and Yan Wang Preston. First Fridays are our regular gathering for anyone interested in art and the world around...

First Friday, February 3, 2017

First Fridays are a time to gather and share - food, ideas, art, gossip. First Fridays is entirely informal: a bring-something-to-share lunch followed usually by some kind of artist presentation. Our guest artists this month are Rob and Harriet Fraser...

Keti Hallori

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.   Biography: Keti Haliori is a new media artist who lives and works in...

Evolving the Forest – opening day

We can announce some details of the opening day of Evolving the Forest our international summit in June 2019. The event begins at 15.45 on June 19 with welcomes from Sir Harry Studholme (Forestry Commission), Andrew Woods (Chair of the Royal Forestry Society) and the...