Global Canvas Children’s Art Internatıonal Competition 2025
Entries are now open for Global Canvas 2025, till 14 February 2025! So pick up those pencils, paints and brushes, and enter your masterpiece. A global competition to celebrate the young wildlife artists of tomorrow.
Global Canvas children’s art competition is an annual international art contest run by DSWF, to encourage creativity from young people, to display thought and concern for our planet’s environment and the incredible wildlife that inhabits it.
Set up in 2004 by DSWF’s founder, wildlife artist and conservationist David Shepherd, each year, the competition receives thoughtful and creative entries from all over the world, with an amazing array of interpretations of the year’s theme.
2025 Theme
“Coexistence – how can humans and wildlife live in harmony?”
There is only one planet – but it is a shared one.
When an elephant eats a farmer’s crops, a lion eats their cattle, or a snow leopard eats their sheep – it creates conflict between these animals and local communities. No one would want to see a family go hungry or lose their livelihoods, but it’s just as important animals aren’t pushed out of their home ranges or are unable to find food.
That’s why finding ways to support local people to live alongside the wildlife around them is essential to conservation and the most worthwhile conservation work balances the needs of both wildlife and people.
This is the very meaning of coexistence.
Who can enter Global Canvas?
Children and young people aged 16 and under.
Groups and Individuals – the competition is split into 2 categories which are judged separately.
Groups require a minimum of 2 people.
The categories will then be judged in the following age groups:
- Ages 4-7 years
- Ages 8-11 years
- Ages 12-16 years
How to enter Global Canvas?
Create your artwork
Any art techniques can be used to create entries; including painting, sculpture, textiles, collages and we always like to see recycled materials.
Online Entry Form
Fill-in the online form for Individual or Group, which will be opening on 9 September 2024 till 14 February 2025. Send us your contact details, clear images and a short video of your artwork.
Winners will be Announced
All artwork will then be reviewed by our judges and the winners will be announced online at the live Awards Ceremony on 24 April 2025.
Groups
Groups must create a ‘display’ based on the theme to enter the competition. Find out how to create a ‘display’ for Global Canvas.
Individuals
Individuals can create an artwork of any size based on the theme.
FOR DETAILED INFORMATION AND TO PARTICIPATE IN THE COMPETITION, PLEASE GO TO THE COMPETITION WEBSITE – PLEASE CLICK –