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.
Abandoned
Glen Farley
Every year throughout the developed world we throw away thousands of tonnes of hazardous electronic and electrical waste. Less than half is recycled in a responsible manner. This e-waste ends up polluting land and sea, and injuring and killing plants, animals and people. When we throw away these computers, tablets and mobile phones, we also lose fragments of our lives. The photos, songs, films and documents stored on these devices are also discarded, abandoned. “Abandoned” consists of several moving elements. These, along with small lights and fans give the impression that these abandoned objects breathe and live. There is also a soundtrack with fragments from home videos and recordings, and a slide show on a discarded flat screen. Some of the photos in the slide show are of the enormous e-waste landfill sites in Africa and China used with permission from the Basel Action Network. Please watch this one-minute film: https://vimeo.com/91521370
Every year throughout the developed world we throw away thousands of tonnes of hazardous electronic and electrical waste. Less than half is recycled in a responsible manner. This e-waste ends up polluting land and sea, and injuring and killing plants, animals and people. When we throw away these computers, tablets and mobile phones, we also lose fragments of our lives. The photos, songs, films and documents stored on these devices are also discarded, abandoned. “Abandoned” consists of several moving elements. These, along with small lights and fans give the impression that these abandoned objects breathe and live. There is also a soundtrack with fragments from home videos and recordings, and a slide show on a discarded flat screen. Some of the photos in the slide show are of the enormous e-waste landfill sites in Africa and China used with permission from the Basel Action Network. Please watch this one-minute film: https://vimeo.com/91521370