COME ALONG FOR SAUNA, BONFIRE, DEEP MAPPING & DISCO CEILIDH AT SCOTTISH SCULPTURE WORKSHOP EDGE EFFECTS – Lumsden Weekender Schedule: Saturday 4th November 1-5pm : Mari Keski-Korsu’s Open Sauna & Caroldson’s pop up cafe in the edge Effects Library 6pm : Bonfire and Fire-cooked food 8pm : Nic Green’s Disco Ceilidh Sunday 5th November 1- 4 : Book Launch: Deep Mapping by Brett Bloom and Nuno Sacramento with lunch and workshop In July 2017 Scottish Sculpture Workshop presented Edge Effects at the Centre for Contemporary […]
Join Dundendance at SSW for an informal sharing of their collaborative project Alien Species Friday 17th November at 3pm Dudendance in collaboration with designer Heather MacCrimmon and musician Fiona Soe Paing will spend a week at SSW developing a new outdoor landscape production with costumes inspired by what ecologists call “non-native species”. The disposable quality of modern materials is having an irreversible, devastating effect on the planet. This new landscape intervention will reference how plastic throughout the natural world is transforming […]
Our fourth and final instalment of this year’s Exchange Residency Programme hosted Florence Dwyer and her investigation into “Centring” on and off the pottery wheel. Flo has written an overview of the ideas and processes she was exploring during her month-long residency and takes us through a re-cap of what happened at her hugely successful workshop: Centred: placed or situated in the centre / having a specified subject as the most important or focal element / well balanced and confident or serene. […]
On Friday 15th September, one of our current residents Alice Wadkin, who is this year’s recipient of the DJCAD Graduate Award Residency, led a moonlight walk and discussion on the time between ‘learning and practice’. Alice’s practice is primarily led by research into a specific site or community and frequently uses conversation and discussion to catalyse a body of work. Since graduating, she has been predominantly thinking about the dissipation of artist support structures after graduating and has been thinking […]
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Application deadline: 12 noon, 16th October 2017 Dates: Residency I: 20th November – 18th December Residency II: 15th January – 12th February Residency III: 19th February – 19th March Cost: Residency costs are highly subsidised by SSW but artists pay £560 per 4 week residency The SSW Nightshift residency marks the beginning of winter and brings us towards the end of our programming year. At this time we invite artists to reflect upon and make work pertaining to a particular theme. This year […]
Artist-led workshop: Centering by Florence Dwyer, SSW Exchange Artist in Residence Wednesday 27th September 5- 7pm Scottish Sculpture Workshop Ceramics studio An exploration into centring, on the pottery wheel and in person. This will be a making based workshop for all ages and abilities that aims to look at what it means to be centred. Is it when we act out of an inner unity, when our whole selves are present in what we are doing? What does it feel like to be knocked […]
SGSAH Paid doctoral artist in residence opportunities at SSW Connect your research skills with external organisations to create impact and make a difference The Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) organises internships and artistic residencies for PhD students to spend up to three months at partner host organisations. As part of the 2017-18 programme SSW will be one of the SGSAH Hosting Partners. Projects can be worked full time, part time or flexibly in blocks. Internships are paid at […]
The third instalment of our Artist-Led Activity: Exchange Residency programme this year took place in August. Over the month, Kelley O’Brien explored the myths and folklore of the Scottish forests, hills and soils, noting where terrain has been worked by human hand and where wilderness has left room for imagination and future mythologies. Kelley then led a workshop with the Lumsden Community on the 16th August. Together, the group made their own pin-hole cameras in order to capture the village. […]
Last weekend at SSW, we ran a course on how to run and maintain an iron cupolette furnace, led by the very talented Professor George Beasley. George’s vast knowledge of iron and instinctive approach whilst running iron furnaces is thanks to many years of experience and experimentation. He was born in Ironton, Ohio in 1943. He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Cranbrook Academy of Art and began teaching at Georgia State University in the Fine Art Department in […]
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