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.
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
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.
Glasgow
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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
Hackney, London
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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
Brighton
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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
Leicester
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(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
Nottingham
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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
Rochdale
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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
Stoke-on-Trent
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(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
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