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.
Adventures of a Raindrop (Where Does all this Mess...
Mary Rouncefield
This image is page 3 of a book for children which tells the story of a raindrop and the rain cycle. The reaindrop starts life in the ocean where he notices a large amount of rubbish including bottles and tin can. ' Where Does All this come from ?' he wonders. He friend the fish offers to show him. The rise up to the surface of the ocean where the raindrop is picked up by the wind and carried towards land. There he sees human life and activities. He is carried onwards and eventually falls to earth with other raindrops. He is swept down into a drain and it is there that he sees the rubbish and pollution which will be washed out to sea.
This image is page 3 of a book for children which tells the story of a raindrop and the rain cycle. The reaindrop starts life in the ocean where he notices a large amount of rubbish including bottles and tin can. ' Where Does All this come from ?' he wonders. He friend the fish offers to show him. The rise up to the surface of the ocean where the raindrop is picked up by the wind and carried towards land. There he sees human life and activities. He is carried onwards and eventually falls to earth with other raindrops. He is swept down into a drain and it is there that he sees the rubbish and pollution which will be washed out to sea.