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.
The Marine Museum of Lost Potential - Vascular...
Julie Light
The 'Vascular Creatures' is an exhibit from the ‘Marine Museum of Lost Potential’, a (fictional) museum dedicated to research into, preservation of, and display of specimens of (fictional) deep-sea creatures lost to the world before they could be discovered. The museum contains samples of lost creatures and their taxonomies and shares the medical potential they might have had for humanity if they had survived long enough to be discovered. The project is the outcome of an ongoing collaboration with Dr Tammy Horton at the National Oceanography Centre responding to Dr Horton’s research into species potentially affected by deep sea mining and into potential medical applications from ocean sources. More recently the collaboration has also includes Prof Marcel Jaspars, director of the Marine Biodiscovery Centre at the University of Aberdeen where they isolate compounds with medical potential from ocean sources.
The 'Vascular Creatures' is an exhibit from the ‘Marine Museum of Lost Potential’, a (fictional) museum dedicated to research into, preservation of, and display of specimens of (fictional) deep-sea creatures lost to the world before they could be discovered. The museum contains samples of lost creatures and their taxonomies and shares the medical potential they might have had for humanity if they had survived long enough to be discovered. The project is the outcome of an ongoing collaboration with Dr Tammy Horton at the National Oceanography Centre responding to Dr Horton’s research into species potentially affected by deep sea mining and into potential medical applications from ocean sources. More recently the collaboration has also includes Prof Marcel Jaspars, director of the Marine Biodiscovery Centre at the University of Aberdeen where they isolate compounds with medical potential from ocean sources.