A UNIQUE textile exhibition which has been showing at Ashburton Arts Centre for the past week will relocate to a new venue on Monday.

The Loving Earth, a textile art project, comprises nearly 100 beautiful, inspiring and thought-provoking panels about our relationship to the Earth, and what people can do to help. 

It has been all over the UK and abroad, and now has come to Ashburton directly from Portcullis House, Westminster, where the exhibition has been on display to MPs.

The national exhibition panels will be supplemented by a number of panels made by Ashburton people especially for this event.  Entrance is free. 

The exhibition, begun in 2019 by the Quaker Arts Network and the Quaker college, Woodbrooke, is being hosted by Ashburton Quaker Meeting, and after being on display at the Ashburton Arts Centre moves to the Quaker Meeting House for the second week. 

► April 1-7: Ashburton Arts Centre, West Street, 10.30am-4.30pm

► April 10-15 Quaker Meeting House, Foales Court, off North Street, 10.30am-4.30pm.
Entrance is free and all are welcome.

The Loving Earth Project celebrates people, places, and living things that we love but which are threatened by growing environmental breakdown, aiming to help people to engage with issues around climate change, without being overwhelmed. People are encouraged to create panels and organise their own workshops, exhibitions and events.

Panels have been made by people of all ages in many parts of the world, and the exhibition has toured across the UK (most recently at the Houses of Parliament, to acclaim from MPs) and abroad including California and France.