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Open Call: Scotland’s Workshops Award

An artist in blue overalls and yellow gloves and face protection is plasma cutting in the SSW metal workshop.Plasma cutting in the SSW metal workshop, image credit: SSW

SSW is part of Scotland’s Workshops, a network of 10 visual arts production facilities across the country and together we’re excited to share the Scotland’s Workshops Award. This award provides a Scotland based, emerging artist* with time, support and financial means to experiment and gain new skills through spending time at 2 of the 10 visual art production facilities across Scotland that make up Scotland’s Workshops. 

The selected artist will receive a bursary of:

£2500 artists bursary
£1500 production bursary to cover tuition, technical assistance, materials and any additional production costs
£1000 to cover travel and accommodation
£500 towards access costs
The award will be fully supported by the host organisations.  

The award will be flexible, with the recipient being able to spend time at 2 organisations, with the expectation that you would commit to 4 weeks of your time – these would not have to be consecutive weeks, and the time could be divided as you’d like between July 2025 and March 2026.  

To find out more head over to the Scotland’s Workshops website.

Deadline for applications: Thursday 10 July at 12 midday

Please note SSW is hosting the application platform and so if you have any technical issues with the wufoo application site please contact arts@ssw.org.uk

Rows of shelves with colourful inks line a white wall of the DCA Print Studio. There is equipment in the foreground of the image which is out of focus.
DCA Print Studio, image credit: Erika Stevenson

Scotland’s Workshops is:

Printmaking – Highland Print Studio, Inverness; Dundee Contemporary ArtsEdinburgh PrintmakersGlasgow Print StudioPeacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
Photography – Stills Gallery, Edinburgh and Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow
Sculpture – Glasgow Sculpture StudiosEdinburgh Sculpture Workshop; Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Aberdeenshire

*For this award emerging is defined as artists and those who have graduated within the last three years

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