The winning designs of the 2023 Grantham Art Prize, by Janet Alao (left), Samuel Webb (top right) and Ria Hoondle (bottom right).
Grantham Climate Art Prize 2025 - Design the Future: From Grey to Green
We’re now inviting young people aged 11–25 to enter the 2025 Grantham Climate Art Prize by designing a mural to draw attention to the climate crisis.
The winning design will be transformed into a large-scale mural by a professional artist at our South Kensington Campus in Dalby Court. It will also be shown at the Great Exhibition Road Festival on 7 and 8 June 2025, alongside an exhibition of photographs of designs from our 2023 art prize. Runner-up designs will be exhibited across the campus. We are also able to offer a £200 prize for the winner and three £100 runner up prizes (all payable in gift vouchers).
Students at Imperial and surrounding schools, colleges and universities can submit a design connected to the theme 'From Grey to Green' – inspired by Imperial’s sustainability strategy. The mural should be a hopeful vision of a sustainable future shaped by nature-based solutions – it can also celebrate Imperial’s work in green innovation.
“We hope the mural will raise awareness of the climate crisis by those who pass and inspire them to take action to alleviate its worse effects, allowing us to live more sustainably. We invite young people to take part because it is their futures that will be most affected by climate change and therefore their aspirations should be magnified.”Linsey Wynton, Senior Outreach and Communications Officer
We will also be announcing another competition in 2025 for a mural for our White City campus, in addition to a mural workshop with a professional artist and climate scientist. We will announce this once details are finalised. If you like to keep updated, please sign-up for our weekly newsletter.
How to enter
To enter the 2025 art prize please use the form at the bottom of this page. If you have any technical issues, you can also submit an entry via our email granthamartprize@imperial.ac.uk.
All submissions should include one clear landscape style design image as a JPEG, PNG or GIF less than 20MB alongside your name, email address, date of birth, age, title of your artwork, and a brief description of the artwork.
Designs can be drawn or painted with a range of material including collage, photo montage, or designed on a computer (use of artificial intelligence is not allowed).
The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2025.
If you are submitting multiple entries (for instance, as a teacher on behalf of multiple students) you can submit each entry separately using the submission form below (please note you will need to refresh this page after each submission to do so). Alternatively, you can submit these via WeTransfer to granthamartprize@imperial.ac.uk.
By entering the Competition, you agree to be bound by our terms and conditions and any other applicable instructions notified to you by us.
What is the Grantham Art Prize?
The art prize is a biennial competition. Previous themes have included British biodiversity loss (2021) and a greener, cleaner, cooler world (2023), inspired by the Grantham Institute’s 9 things you can do about climate change.
Showcasing winners from previous art prizes, we have created 12 murals across Great Britain – from Brighton to Glasgow. We have also had exhibitions of winning and runner-up designs at COP26, in two Natural History Museum Real World Science Network museums, beside Battersea Power Station and on billboards across London’s transport hubs. An exhibition of the 2021 art prize is launching before Christmas at Imperial’s South Kensington campus on Sherfield Walkway.
As to why we run the competition, a previous participant in the Grantham Climate Art Prize workshops Mahamood Mubarak, then a PhD student, summed it up:
“When you talk to young people about climate change – it is a challenge to make it hopeful and not too frightening… but there is a therapeutic element to creating art to express and share their hopes… Through this project I’ve learned the value of art and how it complements science – topics I spent months studying can be captured in a visually striking way that speaks to all.”
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