The Grantham Climate Art Prize - Competition now closed
We're working with Imperial College's Grantham Institute for Climate Change to paint powerful public art across the UK to raise awareness for biodiversity loss and climate change.
The competition was open to young people aged between 12-25. Their work will feature on 7 murals in 7 different UK towns and cities inspired by locally endangered species.
What they won...
🎨 The artwork being turned into a beautiful public mural by a local artist
🖼 The work being featured in Natural History Museum galleries across the UK and projected on billboards across London
🤑 £250 cash!
The writing isn't on the wall - yet.
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The brief:
Create a mural design that represents a message of hope in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss. Pick from one of our towns or cities where you'd like your mural design to come to life – featuring locally endangered species, use that area as your inspiration. Download the full Species Factsheets for each location below, carefully curated with the help of experts UK Youth for Nature.
Download the brief and species factsheet here
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As with everything in life, there are rules:**
The artwork must feature an endangered species that lives around the area
To participate you must be aged between 12-25 and live in Great Britain
You need to choose one of 7 UK areas from the options below – that's where your mural will be painted if you win, and also where your artwork needs to take inspiration from. (You don't need to live there!)
We know some artists best express themselves using profanity, but since these works are for public murals, please keep it clean for this project 😅
Check out our 7 locations for your murals
Choose whichever city inspires you most, and find out more about the locally endangered species specific to that location listed in the dropdown below so you can incorporate one or more of them into your art. The professional artist who'll be scaling up your artwork on the mural is also listed below.
Location: SWG3 Railway Arch
Mural Painters: Ciaran Globel and Conzo Throb
Locally Endangered Species:
Basking Shark
Bluebell
Common Toad
Golden-ringed Dragonfly
Pine Marten
Red Squirrel
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary Butterfly
Water Vole
White-tailed Eagle
Wildcat
Location: Daubeney Road
Mural Painters: Michelle Meola
Locally Endangered Species:
British Grass Snake
Brown-banded carder bee
Cinnabar Moth
Common Toad
European Eel
Horehound Longhorn Moth
House Sparrow
Song Thrush
Stag Beetle
Soprano Pipistrelle Bat
Location: The Level
Mural Painter: Charlie Rallings
Locally Endangered species:
Adder
Adonis Blue Butterfly
Brown-banded Carder Bee
Common Starling
Downland Furrow Bee
European Eel
Fairy Shrimp
Kelp Forest
Red Star Thistle
Short-snouted Seahorse
(The two right hand panels)
Location: North Bridge Place
Mural Painter: Provided by Graffwerk Projects
Locally Endangered Species:
Barn Owl
Black Poplar
Black Redstart
European Hedgehog
Great Crested Newt
Large Garden Bumblebee
Otter
Peregrine Falcon
Spreading Bellflower
Swift
Location: Wollaton Hall
Mural Painter: Anna Wheelhouse
Locally Endangered Species:
Atlantic Salmon
Barbastelle Bat
Eurasian Beaver
Grass-of-parnassus
Grizzled Skipper
Hazel Doormouse
Nottingham Catchfly
Peregrine Falcon
Water Vole
White-clawed Crayfish
Location: Baillie Street
Mural Painter: Bushra Sultana
Locally Endangered Species:
Brown Hare
Floating Water plantain
Grass-wrack Pondweed
Grey Heron
Pond Mud Snail
Slow-worm
Sphagnum Moss
Twite
Water Vole
White-clawed Crayfish
(The wall by the canal)
Location: Port Street
Mural Painter: Grega Greaves
Locally Endangered Species:
Barn Owl
Depressed River Mussel
Dingy Skipper Butterfly
Grass Snake
Logjammer Hoverfly
Northern Yellow Splinter Cranefly
Scarce Black Mining Bee
Snipe
White-clawed Crayfish
White-letter Hairstreak