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.
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.