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.
Fishermen of the Anthropocene
Yiannis Pappas
"Fishermen of the Anthropocene" reinterprets ancient Santorini frescoes, replacing fish with marine debris to highlight ocean pollution. Through performative photography, I collected and held discarded plastics and nets, mirroring traditional fishing gestures to confront viewers with environmental degradation. The image contrasts the serene seascape with the stark reality of waste, highlighting how human excesses disrupt natural cycles. Responding to the Planetary Healing theme, the work critiques systemic inaction on climate change and urges reflection on consumption and accountability. The work provokes dialogue about our ecological footprint, asking What are we harvesting from a depleted world? By transforming an iconic image of sustenance into a symbol of loss, the work calls for urgent action, recognising that while being 'green' is difficult, inaction is no longer an option.
"Fishermen of the Anthropocene" reinterprets ancient Santorini frescoes, replacing fish with marine debris to highlight ocean pollution. Through performative photography, I collected and held discarded plastics and nets, mirroring traditional fishing gestures to confront viewers with environmental degradation. The image contrasts the serene seascape with the stark reality of waste, highlighting how human excesses disrupt natural cycles. Responding to the Planetary Healing theme, the work critiques systemic inaction on climate change and urges reflection on consumption and accountability. The work provokes dialogue about our ecological footprint, asking What are we harvesting from a depleted world? By transforming an iconic image of sustenance into a symbol of loss, the work calls for urgent action, recognising that while being 'green' is difficult, inaction is no longer an option.