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After a year of hard work and dedication from so many, in particular the teams at Collective Architecture, Coldwell’s Build and SSW, our Bothy and groundwork renovations are close to completion. The Bothy works will finalise Phase 1 of our capital programme which has seen the transformation of our staff offices, artists accommodation, ceramics workshop and the development of our community making space. This recent work will importantly provide accessible accommodation, kitchen facilities and external areas for artists and community […]

Before the thermometer drops below minus 20 and the snow reaches our knees (its actually pretty warm this week – but we know the near subarctic conditions are coming) we want to send a huge thank you to all the artists, makers, local residents, partners, supporters and funders who have joined us this year. You all make SSW and bring such knowledge, inspiration and possibility to our workshop spaces.  This year we have run wonderful Group Residencies for artists joining […]

We are excited to announce that we have been selected by Scottish Contemporary Art Network (SCAN) to be a base for one of its fleet of four e-cargo bikes. The Babboe Go Mountain Electric Cargo Trike is available for all resident artists and art workers coming to SSW to use for local errands and collections. The staff team will also make good use of it by doing our weekly Community Fridge drop offs, running supplies to the school for art […]

At the end of October we celebrated Samhain with our Sculptural Kiln Building Course led by ceramic artist Jenny Mackenzie Ross.  Over the course of a week course participants worked together with Jenny and SSW Ceramics Technician Amy to build an adobe kiln over a willow frame, fire the kiln to stoneware temperatures (adding soda for extra fun) and achieve some exciting results. In Jenny’s words: ‘I was glad to see everybody willing to be carried along with my experimental […]

This year we are glad to have supported Group Residencies with artists Maggie Clyde (Scotland), Micheal Coolidge (Canada), Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton (England), Ciaran Cannon (Scotland), Harriet Morley (Netherlands), Caitlin Robb (Scotland), Margaret Scott (USA), Claire Henry (Scotland), Rebecca Livesey-Wright (Scotland), Holly MacDonald (Australia) and Madeleine Ruggi (England). During their time at SSW they have developed their practices across a wide range of materials – working within our metal, ceramics and stone facilities. Group Residencies at SSW support artists to experiment and […]