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.
Monacromach
Lauren Bickerdike
This photo series delves into the evolving landscapes of coastal regions and waterways, employing manipulated perspectives to shed light on the transformations occurring due to environmental changes. Ireland's expansive coastline, stretching approximately 7,400 km, faces the relentless force of the Atlantic Ocean, resulting in widespread erosion of landscapes and cliffs, especially along the West Coast. Presently, around 20% of Ireland's coastal areas are under threat from erosion, attributed to soft sediment and an increasing frequency of storms. Over the past century, Finland has seen a one-degree Celsius temperature rise with projections suggesting a continuation of this trend at an accelerated pace. This upward temperature trend presents challenges to Finland's natural ecosystems, including reduced snowfall and increased precipitation. These environmental shifts have adverse effects on seed production and contribute to a decline in local flora and fauna. Through alterations to image layouts, this series invites viewers to ponder the future of these dynamic landscapes amidst a rapidly changing environment. By rotating the image perspective, viewers can engage with the intricate natural lines and textures sculpted by stormy weather and rising temperatures, encouraging them to perceive the images as artistic expressions rather than representations of water bodies. The photographs featured in this series were captured in Lehinch the morning following storms Isha and Jocelyn, in Buncrana after heavy rains and storms across the West Coast during the August Bank holiday and at the manmade reservoir of Seinäjoki following a rapid temperature increase of 19 degrees Celsius over three days in April.
This photo series delves into the evolving landscapes of coastal regions and waterways, employing manipulated perspectives to shed light on the transformations occurring due to environmental changes. Ireland's expansive coastline, stretching approximately 7,400 km, faces the relentless force of the Atlantic Ocean, resulting in widespread erosion of landscapes and cliffs, especially along the West Coast. Presently, around 20% of Ireland's coastal areas are under threat from erosion, attributed to soft sediment and an increasing frequency of storms. Over the past century, Finland has seen a one-degree Celsius temperature rise with projections suggesting a continuation of this trend at an accelerated pace. This upward temperature trend presents challenges to Finland's natural ecosystems, including reduced snowfall and increased precipitation. These environmental shifts have adverse effects on seed production and contribute to a decline in local flora and fauna. Through alterations to image layouts, this series invites viewers to ponder the future of these dynamic landscapes amidst a rapidly changing environment. By rotating the image perspective, viewers can engage with the intricate natural lines and textures sculpted by stormy weather and rising temperatures, encouraging them to perceive the images as artistic expressions rather than representations of water bodies. The photographs featured in this series were captured in Lehinch the morning following storms Isha and Jocelyn, in Buncrana after heavy rains and storms across the West Coast during the August Bank holiday and at the manmade reservoir of Seinäjoki following a rapid temperature increase of 19 degrees Celsius over three days in April.