Gallery Les Bois is proud to announce that Founder and Director Claire-Julia Hill has been nominated across five categories at the Women in Green Business Awards 2026, a recognition that reflects both her personal leadership and the gallery's wider mission to reshape how sustainability is understood within contemporary culture.
Claire-Julia has been nominated in the categories of Business of the Year, Campaign of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, Leader of the Year and Rising Star - SME, placing Gallery Les Bois among a growing movement of organisations redefining what innovation in the green economy can look like.
Hosted by BusinessGreen, the Women in Green Business Awards celebrate women, businesses and initiatives driving meaningful change across the UK's sustainability landscape. The awards seek to recognise those advancing the green economy while also championing inclusion, leadership and long-term systemic impact.
For Gallery Les Bois, the nominations represent something larger than professional recognition. They mark an important moment for sustainable art itself, a field that has historically existed at the margins of both the art world and the sustainability conversation, despite its enormous cultural potential.
Since founding Gallery Les Bois, Claire-Julia Hill has worked to challenge outdated assumptions around sustainable art. Rather than framing sustainability as limitation, compromise or niche practice, the gallery has consistently demonstrated that environmentally conscious art can also be museum-quality, investment-worthy and conceptually rigorous. Through exhibitions, partnerships, artist representation and public programming, Gallery Les Bois has positioned sustainable art not as a trend, but as part of a wider cultural shift toward more thoughtful forms of creation and collecting.
Under Claire-Julia's leadership, the gallery has built a platform for artists whose practices engage deeply with material innovation, environmental consciousness and future-facing creativity. From large-scale exhibitions and advisory work to collaborations with sustainability organisations and hospitality spaces, Gallery Les Bois has focused on bringing sustainable art into conversations and environments where it has historically been absent.
The nominations also reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of climate leadership. Sustainability is no longer confined to energy, infrastructure or policy. Culture plays a critical role in shaping values, emotional connection and public imagination - and art has a unique ability to help people envision different kinds of futures.
This philosophy has become central to the gallery's identity. Through projects such as 'Future Forms', 'She Creates' and collaborations with organisations including the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP), Gallery Les Bois has sought to create experiences that invite audiences to engage with sustainability not through fear or obligation, but through beauty, emotion and curiosity.
The Entrepreneur of the Year and Rising Star - SME nominations recognise the rapid growth and vision behind Gallery Les Bois as a young business operating within the green economy. Meanwhile, the Leader of the Year nomination reflects Claire-Julia's role in helping establish sustainable art as a serious and credible space within contemporary collecting and cultural discourse.
The Campaign of the Year nomination highlights the gallery's wider commitment to advocacy and public engagement, using exhibitions, partnerships and storytelling to expand awareness around sustainability within the arts. Meanwhile, the Business of the Year nomination acknowledges Gallery Les Bois not only as a commercial gallery, but as a values-led organisation attempting to model a different way of operating within the creative industries.
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