Welcome to the Social Art Award 2025 – Online Gallery!
🌊 Dear friends of art and transformation, 🌊
A heartfelt thank you to all artists and creatives who submitted their powerful works for this year’s Social Art Award under the theme: “Planetary Healing – Blue Tribes for Ocean Health.” Your inspiring visions speak to ocean restoration, biodiversity, and reimagining our coexistence with all life forms on Earth.
After receiving 922 submissions from across all continents, and concluding a very active public voting phase, the Social Art Award now enters its next chapter:
🔹 What’s next?
The professional jury panel is currently reviewing and selecting the TOP 100 entries that will be featured in the official Social Art Award 2025 book. In parallel, the two public voting winners will move forward as wildcards into the final jury round.
🔹 Coming up:
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Shortlisted artists (TOP 10) will be announced by mid-June.
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Winners of the Social Art Award 2025 will be revealed at our Online Award Ceremony on July 2, 2025.
We invite you to stay connected as we celebrate the power of Social Art to drive dialogue, awareness, and collective transformation.
Let’s continue to amplify art as a force for Planetary Healing.
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Unravelled
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Title:
Unravelled
Unravelled
Author:
LENNARD TAYLOR
LENNARD TAYLOR
Description:
Unravelled, A Journey of Awareness & Transformation" "Unravelled" is a multi-sensory, interactive installation designed to confront, educate, and inspire change in how we perceive and engage with the clothing we wear. Through an immersive fusion of video, sculpture, painting, and mixed media, this exhibition takes visitors on a journey—first uncovering the societal wrongs embedded in the fast fashion industry, and then guiding them toward a new, sustainable relationship with clothing. The Journey: Video Projections – Interactive visuals with a poetic storyline exposes the environmental destruction, exploitative labor conditions, and mass waste caused by fast fashion. These moving images set the tone, immersing visitors in the stark realities of the industry. Sculptural Installations – Large-scale fabric structures and textile-based sculptures illustrate the burden of textile waste, transforming discarded clothing into haunting, yet thought-provoking forms. Sculptural Installations - Medium-scale fabric and textile waste sculptures that ? and express the light that can be made from textile waste which invokes viewers to transform their relationship with textile waste. Paintings & Mixed Media – Expressive paintings and textile-infused canvases evoke emotional responses, capturing the human and environmental cost of fashion in raw, evocative imagery. Layers of fabric, paint, and repurposed materials create textured, tactile pieces that invite deeper reflection. Impact & Call to Action: This exhibition does not leave visitors in despair—it lifts them up. After facing the truth about fast fashion’s damage, the experience transitions into empowerment and solutions. "Unravelled" is not just an exhibition; it’s an awakening. It challenges us to rethink our consumption, embrace sustainability, and reclaim fashion as a force for positive change. Each visitor leaves with the tools—and the inspiration—to be part of the solution, one mindful stitch at a time. Special Programming I would love to do some live painting on garments for viewers to highlight and showcase how you can transform blemishes and stains on garments into works of art you can wear. This with a talk from Lennard Taylor will allow guests to fully understand the true cost of fashion and how they can reinvent themselves with the clothes they wear. Installation plan We will install the installation with the large macabre 4ft x 8 ft sculpture at the entrance for guests to be "smacked" with the brutal reality of the fast fashion industry. This large sculpture is heavy and will need to be on the ground and stabilized at the top. (I do have 8 sculptures made in this size so can accommodate more if curator desires. On the wall to the right of this sculpture will be a computer with projector so that viewers can watch whoever is doing the choose your own adventure path. next to that will be the 3ftx4ft ? sculpture reminding guests to ? where their clothing comes from and what it says about them. Hanging next to that is 3ftx4ft Copper Heart sculpture guiding guests to think with their heart about the choices they make. Hanging next to that is the Remember Me painting which is an exploration into taking someone who's pasted discarded garments and making them into a memorial piece that sparks remembrance so that guests can still see them sparkling in their lives. Hanging next to Remember me is the Tiddley bitz characters who've come to live to remind people that any discarded materials or garments can be reinvented into works of art. All waste can be remade into something useful and fun. Placed on white pedestals (need to source) will be a couple of the Heart Sculptures made from Textile waste. Around towards the front almost back to the macabre sculpture is a rack with the hand painted shirts which Lennard Taylor created and painted using zero waste production.
Unravelled, A Journey of Awareness & Transformation" "Unravelled" is a multi-sensory, interactive installation designed to confront, educate, and inspire change in how we perceive and engage with the clothing we wear. Through an immersive fusion of video, sculpture, painting, and mixed media, this exhibition takes visitors on a journey—first uncovering the societal wrongs embedded in the fast fashion industry, and then guiding them toward a new, sustainable relationship with clothing. The Journey: Video Projections – Interactive visuals with a poetic storyline exposes the environmental destruction, exploitative labor conditions, and mass waste caused by fast fashion. These moving images set the tone, immersing visitors in the stark realities of the industry. Sculptural Installations – Large-scale fabric structures and textile-based sculptures illustrate the burden of textile waste, transforming discarded clothing into haunting, yet thought-provoking forms. Sculptural Installations - Medium-scale fabric and textile waste sculptures that ? and express the light that can be made from textile waste which invokes viewers to transform their relationship with textile waste. Paintings & Mixed Media – Expressive paintings and textile-infused canvases evoke emotional responses, capturing the human and environmental cost of fashion in raw, evocative imagery. Layers of fabric, paint, and repurposed materials create textured, tactile pieces that invite deeper reflection. Impact & Call to Action: This exhibition does not leave visitors in despair—it lifts them up. After facing the truth about fast fashion’s damage, the experience transitions into empowerment and solutions. "Unravelled" is not just an exhibition; it’s an awakening. It challenges us to rethink our consumption, embrace sustainability, and reclaim fashion as a force for positive change. Each visitor leaves with the tools—and the inspiration—to be part of the solution, one mindful stitch at a time. Special Programming I would love to do some live painting on garments for viewers to highlight and showcase how you can transform blemishes and stains on garments into works of art you can wear. This with a talk from Lennard Taylor will allow guests to fully understand the true cost of fashion and how they can reinvent themselves with the clothes they wear. Installation plan We will install the installation with the large macabre 4ft x 8 ft sculpture at the entrance for guests to be "smacked" with the brutal reality of the fast fashion industry. This large sculpture is heavy and will need to be on the ground and stabilized at the top. (I do have 8 sculptures made in this size so can accommodate more if curator desires. On the wall to the right of this sculpture will be a computer with projector so that viewers can watch whoever is doing the choose your own adventure path. next to that will be the 3ftx4ft ? sculpture reminding guests to ? where their clothing comes from and what it says about them. Hanging next to that is 3ftx4ft Copper Heart sculpture guiding guests to think with their heart about the choices they make. Hanging next to that is the Remember Me painting which is an exploration into taking someone who's pasted discarded garments and making them into a memorial piece that sparks remembrance so that guests can still see them sparkling in their lives. Hanging next to Remember me is the Tiddley bitz characters who've come to live to remind people that any discarded materials or garments can be reinvented into works of art. All waste can be remade into something useful and fun. Placed on white pedestals (need to source) will be a couple of the Heart Sculptures made from Textile waste. Around towards the front almost back to the macabre sculpture is a rack with the hand painted shirts which Lennard Taylor created and painted using zero waste production.
Description:
Unravelled, A Journey of Awareness & Transformation" "Unravelled" is a multi-sensory, interactive installation designed to confront, educate, and inspire change in how we perceive and engage with the clothing we wear. Through an immersive fusion of video, sculpture, painting, and mixed media, this exhibition takes visitors on a journey—first uncovering the societal wrongs embedded in the fast fashion industry, and then guiding them toward a new, sustainable relationship with clothing. The Journey: Video Projections – Interactive visuals with a poetic storyline exposes the environmental destruction, exploitative labor conditions, and mass waste caused by fast fashion. These moving images set the tone, immersing visitors in the stark realities of the industry. Sculptural Installations – Large-scale fabric structures and textile-based sculptures illustrate the burden of textile waste, transforming discarded clothing into haunting, yet thought-provoking forms. Sculptural Installations - Medium-scale fabric and textile waste sculptures that ? and express the light that can be made from textile waste which invokes viewers to transform their relationship with textile waste. Paintings & Mixed Media – Expressive paintings and textile-infused canvases evoke emotional responses, capturing the human and environmental cost of fashion in raw, evocative imagery. Layers of fabric, paint, and repurposed materials create textured, tactile pieces that invite deeper reflection. Impact & Call to Action: This exhibition does not leave visitors in despair—it lifts them up. After facing the truth about fast fashion’s damage, the experience transitions into empowerment and solutions. "Unravelled" is not just an exhibition; it’s an awakening. It challenges us to rethink our consumption, embrace sustainability, and reclaim fashion as a force for positive change. Each visitor leaves with the tools—and the inspiration—to be part of the solution, one mindful stitch at a time. Special Programming I would love to do some live painting on garments for viewers to highlight and showcase how you can transform blemishes and stains on garments into works of art you can wear. This with a talk from Lennard Taylor will allow guests to fully understand the true cost of fashion and how they can reinvent themselves with the clothes they wear. Installation plan We will install the installation with the large macabre 4ft x 8 ft sculpture at the entrance for guests to be "smacked" with the brutal reality of the fast fashion industry. This large sculpture is heavy and will need to be on the ground and stabilized at the top. (I do have 8 sculptures made in this size so can accommodate more if curator desires. On the wall to the right of this sculpture will be a computer with projector so that viewers can watch whoever is doing the choose your own adventure path. next to that will be the 3ftx4ft ? sculpture reminding guests to ? where their clothing comes from and what it says about them. Hanging next to that is 3ftx4ft Copper Heart sculpture guiding guests to think with their heart about the choices they make. Hanging next to that is the Remember Me painting which is an exploration into taking someone who's pasted discarded garments and making them into a memorial piece that sparks remembrance so that guests can still see them sparkling in their lives. Hanging next to Remember me is the Tiddley bitz characters who've come to live to remind people that any discarded materials or garments can be reinvented into works of art. All waste can be remade into something useful and fun. Placed on white pedestals (need to source) will be a couple of the Heart Sculptures made from Textile waste. Around towards the front almost back to the macabre sculpture is a rack with the hand painted shirts which Lennard Taylor created and painted using zero waste production.
Unravelled, A Journey of Awareness & Transformation" "Unravelled" is a multi-sensory, interactive installation designed to confront, educate, and inspire change in how we perceive and engage with the clothing we wear. Through an immersive fusion of video, sculpture, painting, and mixed media, this exhibition takes visitors on a journey—first uncovering the societal wrongs embedded in the fast fashion industry, and then guiding them toward a new, sustainable relationship with clothing. The Journey: Video Projections – Interactive visuals with a poetic storyline exposes the environmental destruction, exploitative labor conditions, and mass waste caused by fast fashion. These moving images set the tone, immersing visitors in the stark realities of the industry. Sculptural Installations – Large-scale fabric structures and textile-based sculptures illustrate the burden of textile waste, transforming discarded clothing into haunting, yet thought-provoking forms. Sculptural Installations - Medium-scale fabric and textile waste sculptures that ? and express the light that can be made from textile waste which invokes viewers to transform their relationship with textile waste. Paintings & Mixed Media – Expressive paintings and textile-infused canvases evoke emotional responses, capturing the human and environmental cost of fashion in raw, evocative imagery. Layers of fabric, paint, and repurposed materials create textured, tactile pieces that invite deeper reflection. Impact & Call to Action: This exhibition does not leave visitors in despair—it lifts them up. After facing the truth about fast fashion’s damage, the experience transitions into empowerment and solutions. "Unravelled" is not just an exhibition; it’s an awakening. It challenges us to rethink our consumption, embrace sustainability, and reclaim fashion as a force for positive change. Each visitor leaves with the tools—and the inspiration—to be part of the solution, one mindful stitch at a time. Special Programming I would love to do some live painting on garments for viewers to highlight and showcase how you can transform blemishes and stains on garments into works of art you can wear. This with a talk from Lennard Taylor will allow guests to fully understand the true cost of fashion and how they can reinvent themselves with the clothes they wear. Installation plan We will install the installation with the large macabre 4ft x 8 ft sculpture at the entrance for guests to be "smacked" with the brutal reality of the fast fashion industry. This large sculpture is heavy and will need to be on the ground and stabilized at the top. (I do have 8 sculptures made in this size so can accommodate more if curator desires. On the wall to the right of this sculpture will be a computer with projector so that viewers can watch whoever is doing the choose your own adventure path. next to that will be the 3ftx4ft ? sculpture reminding guests to ? where their clothing comes from and what it says about them. Hanging next to that is 3ftx4ft Copper Heart sculpture guiding guests to think with their heart about the choices they make. Hanging next to that is the Remember Me painting which is an exploration into taking someone who's pasted discarded garments and making them into a memorial piece that sparks remembrance so that guests can still see them sparkling in their lives. Hanging next to Remember me is the Tiddley bitz characters who've come to live to remind people that any discarded materials or garments can be reinvented into works of art. All waste can be remade into something useful and fun. Placed on white pedestals (need to source) will be a couple of the Heart Sculptures made from Textile waste. Around towards the front almost back to the macabre sculpture is a rack with the hand painted shirts which Lennard Taylor created and painted using zero waste production.