Welcome to the Social Art Award 2025 – Online Gallery!
We are grateful for the many powerful contributions from artists across the globe. The selected works reflect the diversity of contemporary social art practices and address urgent issues such as climate and water crises, social and economic inequality, migration, conflict, discrimination, and the protection of human and more-than-human life.
Below you will find the submissions from the edition of 2024/2025 that passed the initial jury round. The Online Gallery offers public visibility to these works and supports dialogue around their themes; it does not replace the final jury decision.
Thank you to all artists for sharing your inspiring and committed work. We invite you to explore the gallery and engage with the perspectives shaping the Social Art Award 2025.
Stop
Jane Robb
The remnants of human intervention in nature are left standing, a testament to past follies. These structures once spelled the word ‘stop’ to the sea, but alas, the sea has no master. In this digital illustrated collage I represent these sea barriers as hands, like the many hands over many years that would have built and rebuilt these defences as they were slowly whittled away by the storms. Now they serve as memory, as recognition that there is a better future where humans can coexist with the unique and wonderful wildlife on Spurn Point – once these fingers are eroded away they will not be rebuilt by new hands. Instead, the communities of Spurn Point work with the sea and the river to honour and live with this coastal landscape as it will continue to shift and change over time.
The remnants of human intervention in nature are left standing, a testament to past follies. These structures once spelled the word ‘stop’ to the sea, but alas, the sea has no master. In this digital illustrated collage I represent these sea barriers as hands, like the many hands over many years that would have built and rebuilt these defences as they were slowly whittled away by the storms. Now they serve as memory, as recognition that there is a better future where humans can coexist with the unique and wonderful wildlife on Spurn Point – once these fingers are eroded away they will not be rebuilt by new hands. Instead, the communities of Spurn Point work with the sea and the river to honour and live with this coastal landscape as it will continue to shift and change over time.