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.
The Tree of Life
zimeng Zhao
I wanted to create a visual style with a totemic feel, where the oak leaves were transformed into the form of vines, from the form towards the sky to the form towards the ground, which was not a natural development, but a man-made change. It envelops man, envelops him like a veil, and we are able to bask in the light of the oak tree. With the "oak tree" as the core image, this work integrates the Celtic culture's worship of the oak tree, the philosophy of life cycle, and the concept of pluralistic symbiosis to build a visual space full of totemic sense. The work will break the traditional perception of the natural form of the upward growth of the oak tree, and transform the oak leaves into the form of a downward hanging vine through artificial artistic processing, forming a shrouded and ritualistic visual field, a metaphor for the transformation of the relationship between human beings and nature, as well as the multiple possibilities of life forms.The tree of life, Celtic culture and the protection of the blue ocean may seem distant, but they are intimately connected through symbolism and artistic expression. The Tree of Life symbolizes the interconnection of all things, just like the interdependence of species in the marine ecosystem; The Celtic culture revered nature, and the spirals and animal motifs in its art can show the diversity and ecological balance of marine life; With its delicate and realistic characteristics, the creation of Chinese painting brushes is suitable for depicting the beauty and fragility of marine life. By extending the root system of the Tree of Life into an undersea forest, the branches and leaves symbolizing marine life, and incorporating elements and techniques of Celtic art, it is possible to create works that combine oriental aesthetics and environmental protection concepts, and arouse people's attention and action to protect the blue ocean.
I wanted to create a visual style with a totemic feel, where the oak leaves were transformed into the form of vines, from the form towards the sky to the form towards the ground, which was not a natural development, but a man-made change. It envelops man, envelops him like a veil, and we are able to bask in the light of the oak tree. With the "oak tree" as the core image, this work integrates the Celtic culture's worship of the oak tree, the philosophy of life cycle, and the concept of pluralistic symbiosis to build a visual space full of totemic sense. The work will break the traditional perception of the natural form of the upward growth of the oak tree, and transform the oak leaves into the form of a downward hanging vine through artificial artistic processing, forming a shrouded and ritualistic visual field, a metaphor for the transformation of the relationship between human beings and nature, as well as the multiple possibilities of life forms.The tree of life, Celtic culture and the protection of the blue ocean may seem distant, but they are intimately connected through symbolism and artistic expression. The Tree of Life symbolizes the interconnection of all things, just like the interdependence of species in the marine ecosystem; The Celtic culture revered nature, and the spirals and animal motifs in its art can show the diversity and ecological balance of marine life; With its delicate and realistic characteristics, the creation of Chinese painting brushes is suitable for depicting the beauty and fragility of marine life. By extending the root system of the Tree of Life into an undersea forest, the branches and leaves symbolizing marine life, and incorporating elements and techniques of Celtic art, it is possible to create works that combine oriental aesthetics and environmental protection concepts, and arouse people's attention and action to protect the blue ocean.