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.
Fore-edge paintings reviving second hand books
Olesia Komarova
Combining LGBT+ and eco-activism with art for the project secondhand books by and about prominent British women were rescued from clearance shops, restored and painted reviving the art of fore-edge illustration.Through workshop and exhibition the project raises awareness about creative upcycling and about countries that still have strong censorship in book publishing. The books are auctioned in support of Visible Women UK to raise a statue commemorating S. Townsend-Warner, a Dorset queer writer.
Combining LGBT+ and eco-activism with art for the project secondhand books by and about prominent British women were rescued from clearance shops, restored and painted reviving the art of fore-edge illustration.Through workshop and exhibition the project raises awareness about creative upcycling and about countries that still have strong censorship in book publishing. The books are auctioned in support of Visible Women UK to raise a statue commemorating S. Townsend-Warner, a Dorset queer writer.