Award 2021
Welcome to the Social Art Award 2021 – Online Gallery!
We are grateful for the many inspiring contributions from artists around the world. The selected works reflect a broad spectrum of contemporary social art practices and explore new relationships between humans, nature, and technology. They address themes such as ecological regeneration, climate justice, sustainable futures, social resilience, and more-than-human perspectives.
Below you will find the submissions from the Social Art Award 2021 – New Greening edition that passed the initial jury round. The Online Gallery offers public visibility to these works and encourages dialogue around their ideas and approaches; it does not replace the final jury decision.
Thank you to all artists for sharing your visionary and committed work. We invite you to explore the gallery and engage with the perspectives shaping New Greening.
Disappearing Green
Adam Dube
This is a hand painted, reverse dyed, vintage / secondhand rugby shirt with artwork meant to mimic British Isles rugby uniforms of the 19th century. Color was removed from the fabric using environmentally safe methods (not chlorine bleach) to indicate the environmental impact of global textile manufacture & waste. The artwork is a functional, wearable garment and is a reinterpretation of what "streetwear" can be. New make garments have a disastrous impact, so I only create on repurposed items. The melancholic expression on such bright, familiar iconography begs a deeper investigation into the devastation directly cause & accelerated by fashion brands across the globe.
This is a hand painted, reverse dyed, vintage / secondhand rugby shirt with artwork meant to mimic British Isles rugby uniforms of the 19th century. Color was removed from the fabric using environmentally safe methods (not chlorine bleach) to indicate the environmental impact of global textile manufacture & waste. The artwork is a functional, wearable garment and is a reinterpretation of what "streetwear" can be. New make garments have a disastrous impact, so I only create on repurposed items. The melancholic expression on such bright, familiar iconography begs a deeper investigation into the devastation directly cause & accelerated by fashion brands across the globe.