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Winter Residency: January 2020

In January we welcomed the first of our two Winter Residency groups in 2020. Artists Eloïse Dieutegard, Cassia Dodman, Fionn Duffy, David Moré and Leila Alice Smith lived and worked together on site for four weeks, forming close relationships (with each other, the site, staff team, processes, materials and surrounding landscape) and developing their diverse practices. This year’s Winter Residency call out focused on the role of making and materiality in a time of climate breakdown. Building on thinking and research from projects, together with […]

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News / Residencies 3:06 pm , February 25, 2020 Comments Off on Winter Residency: January 2020
Glazing at SSW. Photo: Felicity Crawshaw

Open Call: 2020 Ceramics Internship

We are inviting applications for a Ceramics Internship which will run from Monday 26 October — Monday 14 December 2020. This internship programme provides hands-on learning for people interested in developing experience of working in a busy ceramics workshop within a rural workshop facility. Our ceramics workshop offers artists the space, specialist advice and equipment to develop their work in an experimental and supportive environment, dedicated to creative and innovative practice with ceramics. As the Ceramics Intern, you will be […]

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News / Recruitment 9:55 pm , February 13, 2020 Comments Off on Open Call: 2020 Ceramics Internship
Simone Kenyon, Into The Mountain (2019). Photo: Felicity Crawshaw

Open Call: 2020 Programme and Communications Internship

We are inviting applications for our Programme and Communications Internship, which will run from from Monday 13 April — Monday 15 June 2020. This internship provides hands on learning for people interested in developing a knowledge of working in the arts with particular focus on arts administration, communications, programme development, planning and delivery, with and for artists. As the Programme and Communications Intern, you will be working with the SSW Programme and Communications Manager; assisting with daily tasks that focus […]

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News / Recruitment 9:43 pm , February 13, 2020 Comments Off on Open Call: 2020 Programme and Communications Internship
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Public Talks series 2020: Borbála Soós

Public Talk #1: Borbála Soós | Wednesday 12 February 2020 Join curator Borbála Soós for a public talk in the form of a journey, exploring relationships between people, places and materials. Through stories, video, sound and artworks, she invites us to travel through a series of passageways; from a spiral staircase inside a shell, to an underwater forest resembling the rewilded hills in the Cairngorms National Park, and other parallel realities on the way. There are two separate events, the […]

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Events / News 11:33 am , February 5, 2020 Comments Off on Public Talks series 2020: Borbála Soós
A group of people stand in a snowy landscapeWinter Residency 2020 artists with Harry Josephine Giles

Winter Residents 2020: January

We’re into the second week of our first 2020 residency, with artists Eloïse Dieutegard, Fionn Duffy, Cassia Dodman, David Moré and Leila Alice Smith. All artists responded to our Winter Residency call, which explores the muddy tensions between materiality and extraction within a time of climate breakdown. Here we share their plans for the residency period and an insight into their interests and practices. The first Winter Residency of 2020 runs from 27 January — 24 February. Eloïse DieutegardAmsterdam, Netherlands […]

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News / Residencies 11:06 am , February 4, 2020 Comments Off on Winter Residents 2020: January
Naomi Pearce, Nine Parts Navvy (2018). Photo: SSW

Open call: Summer Residency 2020

We are pleased to invite applications for our 2020 Summer Residency programme, from artists based in the UK and international. Coming together on residency at SSW, artists live and work on site and have daily access to our facilities coupled with support from our team. We aim to foster conditions for conversation, peer exchange and experimental making across a diverse range of processes and practices both those associated with contemporary sculpture and beyond. Our Summer Residency programme is for artists wishing […]

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News / Residency Info 2:47 pm , January 24, 2020 Comments Off on Open call: Summer Residency 2020
Lumsden Weekender (2018). Photo: Erika Stevenson

Capital Development survey: Artists

In 2019 we were excited to announce our ambitions for a major capital development project at SSW, to upgrade our workshop spaces and site. In line with our ethos, the development will see a ‘ground-up’ approach at its heart, using local materials, skills and knowledges. It will foreground function and environmental sustainability throughout the design and construction. Now, we are looking for input from artists who have been to SSW, whether on residency, open access, for a course or project. […]

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Capital Development / News 11:09 am , January 24, 2020 Comments Off on Capital Development survey: Artists
Photo by Felicity Crawshaw

Accommodation

SSW has simple shared accommodation on site as well as a house in the village. When you stay at SSW you will have a private bedroom, with access to a shared kitchen and bathroom. We allocate rooms randomly and based on availability, unless you let us know of any access needs. Staying on site There are four bedrooms on site, accessed via a steep flight of stairs. Each bedroom has a comfy double bed and storage. Two bedrooms look out […]

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Facilities 2:15 pm , January 17, 2020 Comments Off on Accommodation

Studio

The studio at SSW is a bright, warm space. It is a shared studio which encourages conversation and cross-overs, between residency artists and open access artists. The studio has several large desks, but can be set up depending on the group’s requirements. There is 24 hour access to the studio for residents. The studio is available to any artist who comes on Open Access or residency. Images by Felicity Crawshaw

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Facilities 2:01 pm , January 17, 2020 Comments Off on Studio
SSW is 40! (2019). Photo: Felicity Crawshaw

Communities Room

The SSW Communities Room is a warm and bright flexible space, with wifi, a projector and kitchenette. Housing the SSW Library, an eclectic selection of artists’ books, catalogues, reference books and the Frontiers in Retreat Edge Effects library, the space is great for solo research and writing and can be configured as required. The Communities Room also hosts SSW’s Public Talks programme, as an accessible space for events, talks and screenings. The room is available for external hire – please […]

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Facilities 12:13 pm , January 17, 2020 Comments Off on Communities Room