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.
Tsunami, Koh Phi Phi Thailand 2004
isabellezab
I am a SCUBA diving instructor. In 2004 I traveled to Koh Phi Phi, Thailand, 4 months after the tsunami. When the wave hit, it destroyed 60 percent of the buildings on the island and claimed nearly 1300 lives. You could see the desolation everywhere, only locals and volunteers inhabited the island and had just the most basic of amenities. For the following 4 months to the rate of 3 dives a day and 6 days a week, I became part of the volunteer clean up diving crew. We collected literal tons of debris strewn 12 metres deep in the bay of Koh Phi Phi. Working with the amazing dive/snorkel teams, we filled our underwater nets with every conceivable remains we could grasp. This piece is a commemoration of that experience; and a small monument to it. All the materials used are second hand, found, or given to me in the spirit of sharing resources. The snow globe shape is a reminder that the tsunami happened on December 26 while the sand and metal pieces are a representation of the countless undulated iron sheets we pulled out of the bottom of the sea. Those were the main roofing materials for the 800 bungalows and buildings that disappeared. The debris retrieved from the water has ranged from trees and construction materials to personal effects vital in helping identify those missing in the wake of the disaster.
I am a SCUBA diving instructor. In 2004 I traveled to Koh Phi Phi, Thailand, 4 months after the tsunami. When the wave hit, it destroyed 60 percent of the buildings on the island and claimed nearly 1300 lives. You could see the desolation everywhere, only locals and volunteers inhabited the island and had just the most basic of amenities. For the following 4 months to the rate of 3 dives a day and 6 days a week, I became part of the volunteer clean up diving crew. We collected literal tons of debris strewn 12 metres deep in the bay of Koh Phi Phi. Working with the amazing dive/snorkel teams, we filled our underwater nets with every conceivable remains we could grasp. This piece is a commemoration of that experience; and a small monument to it. All the materials used are second hand, found, or given to me in the spirit of sharing resources. The snow globe shape is a reminder that the tsunami happened on December 26 while the sand and metal pieces are a representation of the countless undulated iron sheets we pulled out of the bottom of the sea. Those were the main roofing materials for the 800 bungalows and buildings that disappeared. The debris retrieved from the water has ranged from trees and construction materials to personal effects vital in helping identify those missing in the wake of the disaster.