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!

Farewell messages

Below is a random sampling of letters sent to us after we announced the closure of art.earth. We include these here partly as a testament to the work our wonderful team managed to pull out of the hat between 2016 and 2023 but also to underline the importance of having...

From the MA Arts & Place residency

Some images from the extraordinarily productive time during our residency with students Emma Yorke, Alison, Jackson-Bass, Gavin Blench and Mary Waltham over the past two weeks. We were hosting the residency on the Dartington Hall estate in the wondrous High Cross...

A Dartington Outing

A special exhibition in the Garden Room Gallery from September 22-28. Woven into Dartington's past and present, and that of our wider society and culture, are the lives of a host of LGBTQ people, families and communities – lives that have ranged, and still do, from...

Chasing the Sublime

Watch this trailer for the new short film Chasing the Sublime, exploring the physicality of long-distance cold water swimming by award winning director Amanda Bluglass. Coming soon to adventure film festivals.Why do we put ourselves into the path 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...

Should Energy be Boring?

Great post re-blogged by Chris Fremantle https://ecoartscotland.net/2015/12/04/should-energy-be-boring/    

Charlotte Price

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.   November 2017 Charlotte Price https://charlotteprice-art.com What are...

First Friday May 1

RECIPESand ARTWORK now PUBLISHED. We will be holding a virtual gathering for First Friday on May 1.

Review of latest Marlene Creates book

The monograph Marlene Creates: Places, Paths, and Pauses was published last year to coincide with a touring retrospective of the work of Marlene Creates, co-curated by Susan Gibson Garvey and Andrea Kunard. The exhibition was organised by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery...

Tidal Cultures

Tidal Cultures is a wonderful collection of stories, links, essays, media programmes and more collected in a blog published Owain Jones (Bath Spa University). He says: I have always had, as far as I remember, an awareness of tides, and also a fascination from them, a...