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!

Exhibition: Evolving the Forest

Evolving the ForestWednesday June 19 to Wednesday September 4, 2019 Dartington Space Gallery and the Green Table CaféThe essential spirit of the coming-together of voices, thoughts and opinion to the annual gatherings at Dartington convened by art.earth is...

Aesthetics, Ethics and Nature

Aesthetics, Ethics and Nature Paul O'Brien Abstract Should we value baby seals over baby rats, just because most people believe that seals are cuter? If it's inappropriate to judge humans on aesthetic grounds, why is it appropriate to judge between species of animals...

2017 Wainwright Prize shortlist

The Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize Shortlist Announced June 27, 2017 The shortlist for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize, which celebrates the best books about nature, the outdoors and UK travel is announced today. The seven shortlisted titles are: Love of...

First Friday December 6

Our next First Friday – and the last for 2019 – takes place as usual at Dartington Space from 13.00 on Friday December 6. The guest this month is artist Alice Clough.

Deborah Duffin & Shanni Ong

Deborah Duffin MRBS || Shanni Ong August 31 to September 18 2017 Reception/Meet the Artist Friday September 8, 18.00 to 19.30 An exhibition of 2D and 3D work Deborah Duffin MRBS After winning prizes for student work, including the national Winsor &...

Nicky Cornwell

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 Nicky Cornwell (Instagram...

The geological perspective

Our good friend Martin Broadbent (also our resident geologist and all-round rock man) sent us this interesting lecture from Prof Howard Falcon-Lang (Royal Holloway) entitled Arctic Fossil Forests of the Cretaceous Period (ie roughly 100MA ago). This lecture...

Exhibition: KINdoms

11 September to 17 October in the Garden Room Gallery Meet-the-artist(s): Friday October 5, 14.00 to 15.30 (during First Friday which starts at 13.00) KINdoms: textiling with the more-than-human Curated by Patricia Brien KINdoms: Textiling with the more-than-human is...

Exhibition: Jan O’Highway

VANITAS an exhibition by Jan O'Highway Garden Room Gallery, June 1 to 13. Emerging from darkness… reminiscent of a 17th century Vanitas still life, the strong chiaroscuro of these images emphasizes the underlying structures of plants in all their forms – seed to leaf...

Images from Hannah Perner-Wilson

Hannah Perner-Wilson was one of the artists selected to take part in our residency programme last (Tasting the Change) November (2019) where teams of artists and people from other disciplines worked together on issues pertaining to climate change . There are a number...