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.
Last Gasp
dianne murphy
Social art award Statement The images of childhood form my visual language and, after initially training as a painter, I’m now working within a specialised form of colour inked steel plate etching. Whilst studying Jung's psychology, and philosophy in general, alchemy and its abundant use of symbols has held my attention. Using toys and games to portray ideas, I am hoping to connect on a more grounded level: asking the viewer to look inside themselves as individuals and take responsibility for what they do, how they live and their impact upon the world. My subjects of interest continually evolve but have always come from the perspective of a woman and a mother, sometimes fundamentally feminist in nature
Social art award Statement The images of childhood form my visual language and, after initially training as a painter, I’m now working within a specialised form of colour inked steel plate etching. Whilst studying Jung's psychology, and philosophy in general, alchemy and its abundant use of symbols has held my attention. Using toys and games to portray ideas, I am hoping to connect on a more grounded level: asking the viewer to look inside themselves as individuals and take responsibility for what they do, how they live and their impact upon the world. My subjects of interest continually evolve but have always come from the perspective of a woman and a mother, sometimes fundamentally feminist in nature