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.
Algologies: Microscopy
Anna C Dumitriu
"Algologies" explores our intricate relationship with seaweed, the foundational organisms underpinning ocean health and planetary climate regulation. Victorians called the study of seaweed and seaweed collecting algology but in fact this means the study of pain and phycology is the study of algae. The title of the work therefore plays with these dual meanings at a time of global crisis. Developed through collaborations with scientists, this project investigates algae's dual role: impacted by pollution and climate change yet offering vital pathways for Planetary Healing. It highlights their potential in carbon capture, oxygen production, bioremediation, and as sustainable resources for biotechnology (biofuels, bioplastics, food). The artwork uses microscopy to reveal their often-overlooked beauty and critical ecological importance of seaweed.
"Algologies" explores our intricate relationship with seaweed, the foundational organisms underpinning ocean health and planetary climate regulation. Victorians called the study of seaweed and seaweed collecting algology but in fact this means the study of pain and phycology is the study of algae. The title of the work therefore plays with these dual meanings at a time of global crisis. Developed through collaborations with scientists, this project investigates algae's dual role: impacted by pollution and climate change yet offering vital pathways for Planetary Healing. It highlights their potential in carbon capture, oxygen production, bioremediation, and as sustainable resources for biotechnology (biofuels, bioplastics, food). The artwork uses microscopy to reveal their often-overlooked beauty and critical ecological importance of seaweed.