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Caregivers Residency artist Morven Mulgrew, image credit: SSW

Open Call: SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency

The SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency is 5!  2025 marks the 5th year of the collaboration between SSW and Counterflows Festival offering vital residency opportunities to Scotland based artists who are also caregivers. To celebrate this important milestone, and with the generous support of the William Grant Foundation and Creative Scotland, this year we are offering 5 fully funded residencies. The SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency offers: This residency recognises that the care of others is central to the collective survival […]

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News 5:33 pm , September 11, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency
Kids Club with their banner in Lumsden Park, image: SSW

Spring Community Making Space Programme: In Pictures

What a Spring and Summer we have had in Lumsden! Blue skies, long days, short nights and much outdoor fun. We kicked off our Spring Community Making Space programme with a wide range of Thursday Making Sessions. Through these we developed our Materials Garden – building up the nitrogen in the soil (with thanks to the local horses), clearing scrub areas of the site, deciding what to grow and germinating seeds. We also learnt from artist Claire Rayner how to […]

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News 4:58 pm , August 7, 2025 Comments Off on Spring Community Making Space Programme: In Pictures
Group Residency artists in the ceramics workshop with SSW technician Amy Benzie

2025 Group Residency 1: In Pictures

It was fantastic to welcome artists Alaya Ang (Scotland), Holly Bobisuthi (USA), Jonny Walker (Scotland) and Kishita Nayyar (England) to SSW in May, to take part in the first Group Residency of 2025.  The Group Residency artists were also joined by RSA Residencies for Scotland artist Jodi Le Bigre and Open Access Residency artists Marianne Mulvey and Dinda Fass. Over the course of their month-long residency, the group had inductions and support in ceramics, metalwork, blacksmithing and stonework. Alongside developing […]

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News 4:16 pm , August 7, 2025 Comments Off on 2025 Group Residency 1: In Pictures
SSW Materials Garden, image credit: SSW

Introducing the SSW Materials Garden

This year, as part of the completion of Phase 1 of our Capital work at SSW we started to slowly cultivate a Materials Garden. The Materials Garden is currently formed of a number of raised beds and recently cleared borders that now contain plants for natural dyeing and various willow and small tree varieties for future use in creating armatures, ash glazes and green wood working. These plants are joined by a wide range of pollinators that add to the bio-diversity […]

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News 3:27 pm , August 6, 2025 Comments Off on Introducing the SSW Materials Garden
Work in progress, image credit: Eva Sajovic

Residency Blog: Eva Sajovic

Below artist Eva Sajovic reflects on her two week Open Access (O/A) Residency at SSW. O/A Residencies are available throughout the year, for artists, makers or individuals wishing to develop a project, fabricate work or spend time with their practice. Words and Images by Eva Sajovic — My two-week residency at Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW), supported by a Developing Your Creative Practive (DYCP) grant from Arts Council England, offered a welcome shift from the urgency of London into a slower, […]

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News 3:55 pm , June 27, 2025 Comments Off on Residency Blog: Eva Sajovic
Morven and the wood kiln, image credit: SSW

Caregivers Residency Blog: Morven Mulgrew

Below Morven Mulgrew, one of the 2024 SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency artists reflects on her time here. This residency was set up in 2020 to expand funded residency opportunities to artists who are also caregivers. The 2025 call out will be launching soon. Words by Morven Mulgrew, images by Morven Mulgrew and SSW — PART ONE:  MY CANDIDACY FOR SUITABILITY FOR THE DESIGNATED ROLE OF CARE-GIVER The application for the residency said I wanted to explore the politics of […]

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News 3:46 pm , June 27, 2025 Comments Off on Caregivers Residency Blog: Morven Mulgrew
Image credit: Juliana Capes

Caregivers Residency Blog: Juliana Capes

Below Juliana Capes, one of the 2024 SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency artists reflects on her time here. This residency was set up in 2020 to expand funded residency opportunities to artists who are also caregivers. Words and Images by Juliana Capes — In early 2025, I took part in the Caregivers Residency at Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW)—a programme designed to support artists with caring responsibilities. Set in the rural village of Lumsden, surrounded by the foothills of Aberdeenshire, SSW […]

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News 5:16 pm , May 29, 2025 Comments Off on Caregivers Residency Blog: Juliana Capes

Lumsden Halloween Party

Saturday 2 November6pm – 8.30pm, Lumsden Village Hall We excited to be getting ready to get spooky at the Lumsden Halloween Party! Join us for a night of games, and DJing in the Lumsden Village Hall. We’re rolling out a potluck buffet filled with culinary delights from our community, and don’t miss the showcase of artworks, costumes, and sounds created during the Holiday Club. But here’s the twist – bring your own dish to share with the entire community, adding […]

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Uncategorised 5:31 pm , September 26, 2024 Comments Off on Lumsden Halloween Party
Stone Club with Lewis Morrison, photo by Mara Lewis

Holiday Art Club

October Holiday Art Club – STONE CLUB (12 – 17 year olds) with Lewis MorrisonMonday 14 – Friday 18 October10.30am – 1 pmStone Club is back! Come along to SSW and the Community Making Space and spend the morning learning about stone carving and design. You will work together with SSW artists and technicians to learn about the properties of different stones, the tools needed to shape and carve and take time drawing and working on your own blocks to […]

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Uncategorised 5:12 pm , September 26, 2024 Comments Off on Holiday Art Club
Iisa Lepistö on her Ecologies in the Making residency. Photo by Felicity Crawshaw

Stone Carving

Our stone carving facilities are available in our yard and can be open air or under one of our covered areas. Our bankers (individual stone carving benches) are all wheelchair accessible and can be adjusted to suit people of different heights or different sized stone. We can provide maltese and portland limestone to buy, and we use stone with lower silica content to reduce the impact on our team and users. Equipment includes: 4x sets of fire sharp chisels and […]

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Facilities 9:59 am , September 26, 2024 Comments Off on Stone Carving