First Friday, August 7

First Friday, August 7

After gentle persuasion from our First Friday regulars, we hosted First Friday in August. Usually it’s time to take a break for the summer, but times are not usual and there seems to be an appetite to continue over the summer…so here we are.Read more about...

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...
art.earth conversations

art.earth conversations

We are trialling a new way for the art.earth community to open up a conversation, called Member Conversations. If it turns out to be useful then we’ll keep it going; if not, then we won’t! If you’re an art.earth member you have full access to the...
Evolving the Forest publication (2020)

Evolving the Forest publication (2020)

Over three days in June 2019 we held an international gathering at Dartington Hall, a coming together of artists, scientists, arborealists, philosophers, historians, and more. The event was co-convened by art.earth, Royal Forestry Society and Timber Strategies. This...
The Sustainable Darkroom

The Sustainable Darkroom

from Hannah Fletcher: The Sustainable Darkroom Project Just over a year ago I set up The Sustainable Darkroom Project, an artist run research, training and mutual learning programme, to equip cultural practitioners with new skills and knowledge to develop an...
Online First Fridays

Online First Fridays

In May 2020 we began to meet virtually for our First Friday gatherings after the Covid-19 pandemic made it impossible for us to meet any other way. First Fridays are our offering to the art community, usually local. It’s a time to share food and art and ideas....
Mark Leahy (Devon)

Mark Leahy (Devon)

Mark says: I will talk about 9X9 – a set of poems under constraint: As my response to the hyperlocal commission from Arts and Culture Exeter I made a set of 9 square visual poems, using the first 9 square numbers, and found images in square format as the initial...
Lu La Buzz (Devon)

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...

Bob Budd (Devon)

Bob Budd is a Devon artist who works internationally as a sculptor and has done numerous things with art.earth. He’s an occasional visitor to First Friday which he uses as an excuse to buy Battenberg and Mini-rolls. Which always get eaten…can’t say...