Image credit: SSWWednesday 8 – Friday 10 April 202610 am – 1:30 pmFreeBooking essential Join us for our annual Easter Holiday Kids Art Club where we will be working with wood! Join us to work alongside artists in making useful objects for upcoming events. The club will end with our annual scavenger hunt, collecting answers to riddles which will lead us to Easter prizes! How to take part:To book your place on the Easter Kids Holiday Club please email communities@ssw.org.uk with the […]
Image credit: SSWA place where pottery meets the pub!Come and join us once a month from 6-8pm for an evening of getting together with neighbours and having fun with all things clay. These relaxed creative sessions will introduce different clay techniques such as hand building and applying glazes and offer you plenty of time to work on your own creations. If you haven’t used clay before don’t worry, no experience is required. Snacks and refreshments are provided and all materials, consumables and […]
Image credit: SSWCome to SSW every Thursday from 11.30am–1.30pm for our Thursday Club, a relaxed space to explore some of the skills needed to nurture the world around us, and enjoy making together. These weekly sessions invite you to try out different processes, learn from one another, and connect with the land in Lumsden as well as skills and making processes used to nurture it. The focus of our Thursday Club will be rooted in the SSW Materials Garden where we will […]
Image credit: SSWJoin us every Wednesday evening from 6-8pm for The Mid Week Make where we come together to explore materials, learn new skills, and connect with one another. This season we will be running a number of two part sessions in order to explore longer processes such as glass fusing, throwing clay pots on the wheel and drawing and mark making. Sessions are led by artists, local makers and the SSW team No experience is needed, and all materials, tools, snacks […]
Image Credit: Ross McLeanDates: Wednesday 24 – Friday 26 March 2027 Times: Teaching starts at 10am and finishes around 4pm. The shared artist studio and library is available 24/7 for use after teaching finishes. Cost: £400 (includes tuition, materials, consumables, firing and accommodation) Places: 6 (Beginner+ – no experience required) Access information is at the bottom of this page. In this course, participants will be introduced to the vast world of glazing and atmospheric firing. Aimed at those who are newer to the glazing […]
Image Credit: Felicity CrawshawDates: Wednesday 17 – Friday 19 February 2027 Times: Teaching starts at 10am and finishes around 4pm. The shared artist studio and library is available 24/7 for use after teaching finishes. Cost: £400 (includes tuition, materials, consumables, firing and accommodation) Places: 6 (Beginner+ – no experience required) Access information is at the bottom of this page. In this course, participants will be guided through a range of processes in hand-building with clay with encouragement to go big! Together we will explore […]
Group residents outside SSW with some of the SSW staff team. Image by SSW.It was a delight to welcome artists Hannah Ekuwa Buckman (England), Hannah Leighton-Boyce (England), Jessica Crisp (Scotland), Lily Lavorato (Scotland), Maïa Taïeb (Netherlands), Molly M. Whawell (Scotland) and Nicky May Bolland (Scotland) to SSW in October, as our third and final cohort of artists selected for Group Residency 2025. Over the course of their month-long residency, the group had inductions and support in ceramics, metalwork, blacksmithing and stonework. Alongside developing their practices in the workshops & studio, the group took […]
Image credit: SSWThe team at SSW are heading off on their annual winter break and the site will be closed from Friday 19 December – Monday 5 January. We have had a wonderful year and we are all filled with deep gratitude to everyone we have shared time and space with here at SSW this year. To our Board of Trustees, artist residents, community members, young people, community advisors and vital partners – we thank you for a truly special and transformational […]
Jodi Le Bigre in the SSW Ceramics Studio, image credit: Felicity CrawshawEarlier this year in May and August, we were delighted to welcome RSA Residencies for Scotland artist Jodi Le Bigre to SSW. Below, Jodi shares an introduction to the work she developed during her residency and reflects on her time at SSW. SSW is excited to be participating in the RSA Residencies for Scotland programme again, to offer one artist a 1-2 month(s)-long funded residency in 2026. For more information and to apply, visit The RSA website.Deadline: Sunday 18 January 2026, […]
SSW metal workshop, image credit: Felicity CrawshawApplications to Group Residency 2026 are now closed. SSW is delighted to invite applications for Group Residency 2026! Find out more and apply here: Group Residency 2026 Group Residency is a special time at SSW. It offers artists dedicated space and support for the development of their practice, through a series of inductions and intros to our facilities including ceramics, metal fabrication, blacksmithing and stonework. This is coupled with social spaces to support artists coming together for sauna, artists sharings, […]
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