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.
Africa , climate change
rousselle michel
Africa (acrylic and oil on canvas – 127 cm x 90 cm) This painting represents the struggle for life in Africa as consequence of the global climate warming. Climate change will strongly impact Africa which is already strongly felt : increase in temperature, drought but also floods and hurricanes. The consequences are decreasing productivity of agriculture , hunger and famine . Africa is not responsible for climate warming but has to face the consequences. The style is figurative which makes the subject very comprehensible. The background is painted with acrylic and the figures with oil, which increase the contrast and focus the viewer's attention on the foreground. The word HELP is written in the sky. On the right of the painting, the leg is almost transparent which increases the perception of famine.
Africa (acrylic and oil on canvas – 127 cm x 90 cm) This painting represents the struggle for life in Africa as consequence of the global climate warming. Climate change will strongly impact Africa which is already strongly felt : increase in temperature, drought but also floods and hurricanes. The consequences are decreasing productivity of agriculture , hunger and famine . Africa is not responsible for climate warming but has to face the consequences. The style is figurative which makes the subject very comprehensible. The background is painted with acrylic and the figures with oil, which increase the contrast and focus the viewer's attention on the foreground. The word HELP is written in the sky. On the right of the painting, the leg is almost transparent which increases the perception of famine.