World Environment Day with the New English Art Club
2nd Jun 2025
World Environment Day is celebrated each year on 5 June to raise awareness and encourage action for the protection of the environment. Art is a vital way of communicating such issues, and can be immensely powerful in making an impact.
Melissa Scott-Miller, Living With Change
New for 2025 at the New English Art Club Annual Exhibition is the Climate Emergency Prize, £2,000 for the best artwork that addresses the climate crisis. Artists have explored this theme in various creative experimental ways, and the full display of works can be viewed throughout the exhibition online or at Mall Galleries from 12 to 21 June 2025.
The NEAC feels that while no one has all the answers to the current climate crisis, the prize is one small way in which they can help to further raise public awareness of such a critical matter. It also offers those brave artists who feel impelled to address these concerns through their art an opportunity to display this work and encourage conversation.
The New English Art Club has a long tradition of showing work related directly to the environment. The NEAC was formed partly as a consequence of the radical engagement with nature pioneered by the French Impressionists. This history of plein air observation is still a major strand linking members' working practices.
All works considered for The Climate Emergency Prize are available for purchase here.