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.
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Ignorance is a curse
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Title:
Ignorance is a curse
Ignorance is a curse
Author:
Stanley cheche
Stanley cheche
Description:
The painting is themed ignorance is a curse mainly because people choose to do the wrong thing purely out of ignorance without being mindful of the outcome of their actions. The painting was inspired by the pollution in Kenya. How rivers are polluted from upstream and by the time it reaches Malindi into Indian ocean the trail of destruction and sickness that people depending on such water sources are left with is untold. The country has a big problem of people and factories polluting the water bodies with all manner of pollutants like sewer water, harmful chemicals just to mention but a few. such acts not only kill marine life but also make people who depend on the rivers, streams, lakes who consume the water end up with diseases that are hard to treat and not only that even wild animals die when they consume it. The painting is a bird view of a water body that sewer and other impurities have poured into it. The blue part in the painting is the clean part of the ocean that is yet to be polluted, the red part in the painting signifies the death of marine life that has been taking place over years, the black part in the painting is the oils, sewer and other chemicals that are poured in the water bodies. The items on the painting signify the non-biodegradable things that are mostly found to be thrown in the water bodies and this include expired medicines, metallic objects like screwdrivers, water and juice bottles. Name: Stanley cheche, Title: we’ve decided , Size: 100cm *100cm* 5cm, Medium: mixed medium abstract on canvas, Year:2019 the painting is a birds view of a place where people are demonstrating across the country.
The painting is themed ignorance is a curse mainly because people choose to do the wrong thing purely out of ignorance without being mindful of the outcome of their actions. The painting was inspired by the pollution in Kenya. How rivers are polluted from upstream and by the time it reaches Malindi into Indian ocean the trail of destruction and sickness that people depending on such water sources are left with is untold. The country has a big problem of people and factories polluting the water bodies with all manner of pollutants like sewer water, harmful chemicals just to mention but a few. such acts not only kill marine life but also make people who depend on the rivers, streams, lakes who consume the water end up with diseases that are hard to treat and not only that even wild animals die when they consume it. The painting is a bird view of a water body that sewer and other impurities have poured into it. The blue part in the painting is the clean part of the ocean that is yet to be polluted, the red part in the painting signifies the death of marine life that has been taking place over years, the black part in the painting is the oils, sewer and other chemicals that are poured in the water bodies. The items on the painting signify the non-biodegradable things that are mostly found to be thrown in the water bodies and this include expired medicines, metallic objects like screwdrivers, water and juice bottles. Name: Stanley cheche, Title: we’ve decided , Size: 100cm *100cm* 5cm, Medium: mixed medium abstract on canvas, Year:2019 the painting is a birds view of a place where people are demonstrating across the country.
Description:
The painting is themed ignorance is a curse mainly because people choose to do the wrong thing purely out of ignorance without being mindful of the outcome of their actions. The painting was inspired by the pollution in Kenya. How rivers are polluted from upstream and by the time it reaches Malindi into Indian ocean the trail of destruction and sickness that people depending on such water sources are left with is untold. The country has a big problem of people and factories polluting the water bodies with all manner of pollutants like sewer water, harmful chemicals just to mention but a few. such acts not only kill marine life but also make people who depend on the rivers, streams, lakes who consume the water end up with diseases that are hard to treat and not only that even wild animals die when they consume it. The painting is a bird view of a water body that sewer and other impurities have poured into it. The blue part in the painting is the clean part of the ocean that is yet to be polluted, the red part in the painting signifies the death of marine life that has been taking place over years, the black part in the painting is the oils, sewer and other chemicals that are poured in the water bodies. The items on the painting signify the non-biodegradable things that are mostly found to be thrown in the water bodies and this include expired medicines, metallic objects like screwdrivers, water and juice bottles. Name: Stanley cheche, Title: we’ve decided , Size: 100cm *100cm* 5cm, Medium: mixed medium abstract on canvas, Year:2019 the painting is a birds view of a place where people are demonstrating across the country.
The painting is themed ignorance is a curse mainly because people choose to do the wrong thing purely out of ignorance without being mindful of the outcome of their actions. The painting was inspired by the pollution in Kenya. How rivers are polluted from upstream and by the time it reaches Malindi into Indian ocean the trail of destruction and sickness that people depending on such water sources are left with is untold. The country has a big problem of people and factories polluting the water bodies with all manner of pollutants like sewer water, harmful chemicals just to mention but a few. such acts not only kill marine life but also make people who depend on the rivers, streams, lakes who consume the water end up with diseases that are hard to treat and not only that even wild animals die when they consume it. The painting is a bird view of a water body that sewer and other impurities have poured into it. The blue part in the painting is the clean part of the ocean that is yet to be polluted, the red part in the painting signifies the death of marine life that has been taking place over years, the black part in the painting is the oils, sewer and other chemicals that are poured in the water bodies. The items on the painting signify the non-biodegradable things that are mostly found to be thrown in the water bodies and this include expired medicines, metallic objects like screwdrivers, water and juice bottles. Name: Stanley cheche, Title: we’ve decided , Size: 100cm *100cm* 5cm, Medium: mixed medium abstract on canvas, Year:2019 the painting is a birds view of a place where people are demonstrating across the country.