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.
Lungs of the sea- triptych
Julie Clive
Three paintings, 1ft x 3ft each based on the story of Coral Reefs. A little like the three ages of man in the sense, one is thriving, two is living in ignorance, three is dead and dying. A metaphor for the threat to our Coral reefs. All materials are reused including using up stocks of acrylic paint, painting in many layers, building up the reef, akin to our these living organisms grow. I'm looking at symbiotic relationships here and how one cannot live without the other. I'm currently researching on the topic of The Anthropogenic, aiming to create dialogues to communicate the urgent nature of our times. Each stretched canvas panel is varnished. I have a process based practice, and an informed intuitive response to a subject matter. Mark making is key and socially, l feel art is a great way in, to tackle such a broad subject as Climate Change. Usually l work as an small installation artist, encorporating sculpture, drawing and digital imagery. Currently devising a participatory idea on my chosen subject.
Three paintings, 1ft x 3ft each based on the story of Coral Reefs. A little like the three ages of man in the sense, one is thriving, two is living in ignorance, three is dead and dying. A metaphor for the threat to our Coral reefs. All materials are reused including using up stocks of acrylic paint, painting in many layers, building up the reef, akin to our these living organisms grow. I'm looking at symbiotic relationships here and how one cannot live without the other. I'm currently researching on the topic of The Anthropogenic, aiming to create dialogues to communicate the urgent nature of our times. Each stretched canvas panel is varnished. I have a process based practice, and an informed intuitive response to a subject matter. Mark making is key and socially, l feel art is a great way in, to tackle such a broad subject as Climate Change. Usually l work as an small installation artist, encorporating sculpture, drawing and digital imagery. Currently devising a participatory idea on my chosen subject.