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.
Engulfing
Tessa Teixeira
ENGULFING is a 5-piece Perspex ‘Fish Aquarium’ in a narrative sequence. The sequence visually translates marine ecosystem challenges, impacted directly by the effects of global warming and plastic pollution. Seawater, chocked with tiny fragments of plastic, becoming a toxic soup for sea creatures that eat them. One million seabirds and 100 000 marine animals are killed annually from plastic in the oceans. Engulfing is made from oil derived polymers, acrylic paint, intaglio printmaking ink and children’s toys that are not biodegradable. The ‘marine life’ is engulfed in the Perspex
ENGULFING is a 5-piece Perspex ‘Fish Aquarium’ in a narrative sequence. The sequence visually translates marine ecosystem challenges, impacted directly by the effects of global warming and plastic pollution. Seawater, chocked with tiny fragments of plastic, becoming a toxic soup for sea creatures that eat them. One million seabirds and 100 000 marine animals are killed annually from plastic in the oceans. Engulfing is made from oil derived polymers, acrylic paint, intaglio printmaking ink and children’s toys that are not biodegradable. The ‘marine life’ is engulfed in the Perspex