SSW is excited to be partnering again with Live Art Development Agency (LADA) and also this year with the wonderful Take Me Somewhere on Do It Together (DIT), a peer-to-peer professional development programme that enables artists to explore ideas, aesthetics and socio-political realities together.
SSW alongside LADA and Take Me Somewhere are now calling out for proposals from Live Art practitioners to think about Material Agency and how they are working together with landscape, objects and materials and how they can share this with others.
The DIT project should happen in or near Scottish Sculpture Workshop, in Lumsden, Aberdeenshire. SSW has a range of facilities for artists, makers and individuals to use, including a metal fabrication workshop, ceramics studio, plaster room, yard with areas for stone carving and forging, communal studio space with a library and a community making space.
Knowing that the development of a live art practice is as much about methodologies and experiences as training in skills and techniques, DIT invites artists to delve into collective enquiries and share their process.
DIT reimagines LADA’s flagship programme, DIY, which ran unique professional development projects BY artists FOR artists from 2002 to 2020. For 2026, LADA reactivates the programme as Do It Together (DIT) in line with a renewed focus on co-learning. SSW has partnered with DIY (the programme set up prior to DIT) for 4 years and supported the following projects:
DIY 14 with Peter MacMaster
DIY 15 with Project O
DIY 16 with Reed Rushes
DIY 17 with Gordon Douglas
SSW is one of 19 national partners working with LADA, currently inviting proposals for 10 peer-to-peer professional development projects designed by artists for artists to take place between March and September 2026.
Still DIY, but Together, the crucial shift is that each project will be supported by two national partners instead of one. By increasing the support at a time when both independents and organisations are struggling to resource artist development, DIT ignites a nation-wide support network for process-led experimental practice.
We know that DIY has always been about collective movements, but now, more than ever, we need to do it together.
Who: UK based artists with 5+ years of experience
What: A peer-to-peer development project that benefits your own practice and others
Supported by: 2 organisational partners and Live Art Development Agency
Fee: £2,250 total per project
When: Between March – September 2026
Deadline to apply: Wednesday 12 November, 5pm
Click here to find out more and apply.
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