logo

Author Archives: cam-biddell

Sculptural Kiln Building with Jenny McKenzie-Ross

Course Leader: Jenny MacKenzie Ross Places: 8 (6 residential)Cost: £650 residential / £550 non-residential (Cost includes tuition, firings and materials – this does not include glazes or bisqueware, please bring your own bisqueware to fire in the kiln). Dates:28 October – 1 November Booking: Book online below or phone SSW on 01464 861372. Access information is at the bottom of this page. We are excited to welcome Jenny Mckenzie-Ross for an intensive week of kiln building at SSW. Through this residential […]

Continue reading →
Uncategorised 5:27 pm , January 25, 2024 Comments Off on Sculptural Kiln Building with Jenny McKenzie-Ross

Sculptural Carving in Clay

Course Leader: Amy Benzie Places: 6 (Beginners +)Cost: £250 (£225 non residential)This cost includes tuition, firings and materials Dates:Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 November 2024 Booking: Book online below or phone SSW on 01464 861372. Information on access is at the bottom of this page. In this course, participants will be guided through a range of processes centred on carving into clay. You will be introduced to a range of tools, learn how to add a variety of textures to […]

Continue reading →
Uncategorised 5:21 pm , January 25, 2024 Comments Off on Sculptural Carving in Clay
Photo by Felicity Crawshaw

Large Sculptural Handbuilding

Course Leader: Amy Benzie Places: 8 (Beginners +)Cost: £250 (£225 non residential)This cost includes tuition, firings and materials Dates:Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 July 2024 Booking: Book online below or phone SSW on 01464 861372. Access information is at the bottom of this page. In this course, participants will be supported to develop and refine hand-building skills – specifically how to get the most from building with coils and pinching. Using this age-old technique, learn how to play with scale, form […]

Continue reading →
Uncategorised 5:11 pm , January 25, 2024 Comments Off on Large Sculptural Handbuilding
Photo by Felicity Crawshaw

Glazing Intensive

Course Leader: Amy Benzie Places: 6 (Intermediate+)Cost: £650 residential / £550 non-residential (includes tuition, materials and consumables) Dates:Course 1: 8 – 12 July 2024Course 2: 10 – 14 March 2025 Booking: Book online below or phone SSW on 01464 861372. Waiting list: If the course is full, please contact admin@ssw.org.uk and leave your details and we will put you on our waiting list. An in-depth course exploring experimental and sculptural glazing. Glaze is a rich part of the ceramics process, offering a huge range of […]

Continue reading →
Uncategorised 4:55 pm , January 25, 2024 Comments Off on Glazing Intensive

Introduction to Working with Plaster

Course Leader: Amy Benzie Places: 6 (Beginners +)Cost: £250 (£225 non residential)This cost includes tuition, firings and materials Dates:29 & 30 June 2024 Booking: Book online below or phone SSW on 01464 861372. Information on access is at the bottom of this page. In this course, participants will be introduced to the wonder of material: plaster and its many applications. There will be demonstrations throughout and an opportunity to have a go at making simple one and two part press […]

Continue reading →
Uncategorised 4:45 pm , January 25, 2024 Comments Off on Introduction to Working with Plaster
Photo by Felicity Crawshaw

Introduction to Throwing

Course Leader: Amy Benzie Places: 6 (Beginners +)Cost: £250 (£225 non residential)This cost includes tuition, firings and materials Dates: Course 1: Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 May 2024Course 2: Saturday 29 & Sunday 30 March 2025 Booking: Book online below or phone SSW on 01464 861372. Information on access is at the bottom of this page. In this course, participants will be guided through the process of throwing vessels on the potter’s wheel – from preparing clay through to centring and […]

Continue reading →
Uncategorised 4:21 pm , January 25, 2024 Comments Off on Introduction to Throwing

Job Opportunity: Technical Manager

The deadline for applications have now passed. We’re recruiting a Technical Manager, an exciting new role at SSW, vital in leading the organisation to achieve our vision and new leadership direction. Job Title: Technical ManagerSalary: £32,000 – £37,000 (pro-rata) depending on experience, valid certifications and trainingContract: 0.8 (4 days/ 30 hours per week) permanent may include working weekends and evenings as requiredLine Manage: Technical Team made up of Ceramics Technician, Visiting Technicians/ Specialists, Cleaner Place of work: SSW, Lumsden, Aberdeenshire, […]

Continue reading →
News / Recruitment 4:29 pm , January 24, 2024 Comments Off on Job Opportunity: Technical Manager
Photo credit: Felicity Crawshaw

Building the Clay Commons: In pictures

From 26 November to 1 December Eva Masterman facilitated ‘Building the Clay Commons’ bringing together local community members, makers and artists from the North East and beyond. Together they co-created a set of values and actions that better understand and imagine how community ceramic studios, like SSW’s, can offer alternatives to traditional craft education systems in the UK and be a force for social good. Over the week we spent time collectively making, thinking, discussing, walking, listening, sauna-ing, journaling and […]

Continue reading →
News 4:09 pm , December 13, 2023 Comments Off on Building the Clay Commons: In pictures
Rural School of Economics Summer Camp - Photo by Felicity Crawshaw

The Community Making Space is 1 year old!

It is our Community Making Space’s 1st anniversary in December 2023. Together with our collaborator, artist group Myvillages, we opened the former shop exactly a year ago, with the intention to make new connections and more space between us as an arts organisation and our home village Lumsden. We are excited to share some of our achievements as well as how we plan to collectively imagine what we make happen here in Lumsden in 2024 and beyond… Images by Sam […]

Continue reading →
News 3:39 pm , December 13, 2023 Comments Off on The Community Making Space is 1 year old!
Some of the SSW team outside Slag Hammers, Glasgow

Out and about: SSW team travels

Here at SSW, building connections and learning different ways of working is an important part of what we do and it’s often not visible. So, we’d like to give a snapshot into where the team have been and who they have met between May to November 2023. In May we had a team away day to Glasgow to research how other organisations run their spaces to be inclusive and welcoming and the processes they put in place to do this. […]

Continue reading →
News 10:58 am , December 13, 2023 Comments Off on Out and about: SSW team travels