Operating on the theory that artists can succeed where politicians and charities have failed, the CoolClimate Art Contest challenged creatives from around the world to pool their talent to help save it.
The dramatic effects of climate change on landscape, wildlife, and weather have been well-documented; alarm bells have been sounded and monies allocated. But in the wake of weak global policies and stagnating economic debates, a passionate group of art supporters decided to go another route, soliciting powerful images that go straight to hearts and minds. The result? Over 1,000 artists from around the globe submitted their climate change-inspired works through deviantART.
Find out more about the CoolClimate Art Contest; view a gallery of finalists on deviantART; and get to know the just-announced winner of the inaugural competition.
Click below for a gallery featuring some of our favorite submissions.
1st place: No Pollution Please by Christos Lamprianidis
Comments (6)
This is a bit dumb. The kid is blocking off a nuclear power plant’s steam exhaust. She should be covering a coal plant’s smoke stack instead. Nuclear is actually a really great alternative when it comes to global warming. Nuclear waste containment is its own issue, for sure. But if the artist wanted to comment on that, the kid should be picking up toy trains with nuclear waste symbols on the side.
Actually, that is a coal plant, in Macedonia…
Yea, I am dissapointed in alot of this work. Start showing some more adverse, and less direct/representative stuff. Maybe get some natalie jeremijenko in there?
Most of this stuff is digital manipulation, is there any traditional art-work
out there?
Love the sculpture of the oil-drenched duck/bird… this image really delivers the catastrophic message of environmental stuff-ups home.
Josie Wadelton Australia
This is a poor representation of what artists who do work with Global Green issues can produce.
Very un impressive.
I hope art goes in another direction soon.
I agree. A wider range of mediums would be ideal. The duck is great. The idea is great.
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