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Open Call: SSW x Unlimited Partner Award

SSW is excited to be partnering with Unlimited for this years Partner Awards.  This Partner Award offers a £15,000 award to a Scotland based, disabled artist working in any discipline, to develop a new project and undertake a four-week residency here at SSW using our workshop spaces. Through the Partner Award the artist will receive: Cat Sheridan, Senior Producer, Unlimited, says of the Partner Awards: “These awards [with each partner across England, Scotland and Wales] mean 11 disabled artists can make ambitious new work with a partner invested in […]

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Artists / News 7:53 pm , August 30, 2026 Comments Off on Open Call: SSW x Unlimited Partner Award
Woodblock Printing with Anupa Gardner, image credit: SSW

Community Making Space Blog: Spring / Summer Programme Reflection

We’ve had a great time in the Community Making Space this Spring and Summer. From exploring clay, glass and plant materials to print, paper and soil. There’s been lots of making techniques to get stuck into, with plenty of opportunities for our local community to try something new and spend time together. As with each season, we started by talking with our Community Advisers about what people wanted to see in the programme and what we wanted to explore together. […]

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News 5:41 pm , August 28, 2026 Comments Off on Community Making Space Blog: Spring / Summer Programme Reflection
Group Residents with SSW team members Lewis, Ruaridh, Amy and Harriet, and Ecologies in the Making resident Roy and Vita, image credit: SSW

Group Residency 2026: Artist Announcment

We are delighted to announce Bao-Yin Hall, Danielle Macleod, Jo Matthews, Rudy Loewe, Shehzad Jaffer and Tamsin MacArthur, as our second group of artists selected for Group Residency 2026. The SSW team are supporting the artists in developing their practices over the course of their month-long residency this August. Alongside inductions and support in ceramics, metalwork, blacksmithing and stonework, Group Residency includes a collective programme of sauna, local visits to Pictish stones, film nights, potluck meals, artist sharings and peer […]

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Artists / News / Residency 11:58 pm , August 26, 2026 Comments Off on Group Residency 2026: Artist Announcment
Group Residents with SSW team members Ruaridh and Amy, image credit: SSW

Group Residency 2026: Artist Announcment

We are delighted to announce Alex Sarkisian, Breanne Johnson, Claye Bowler, Ocean Lorraine and Ruby Allen as our first group of artists selected for Group Residency 2026. The SSW team are supporting the artists in developing their practices over the course of their month-long residency this July. Alongside inductions and support in ceramics, metalwork, blacksmithing and stonework, Group Residency includes a collective programme of walks, sauna, film nights, potluck meals, artist sharings and peer learning.  Find out about our first […]

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Artists / News / Residency 4:32 pm , July 17, 2026 Comments Off on Group Residency 2026: Artist Announcment
Detail of Jess working on a ceramics piece, image credit: SSW

Ceramics Subscribers blog: Jessica Crisp

Each month we are sharing more about our Ceramic Subscribers who join us year round in the Ceramics Studio at SSW.  Ceramics Subscription enables people to have regular, independent access to SSW’s Ceramics Studio along with some technical guidance. It is aimed at supporting a broad range of people with existing skills and experience working in ceramics as well as those who are beginners. We support people who are keen to develop their ceramics skills and knowledge with regular workshop […]

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Artists / Ceramics / News 12:02 pm , May 29, 2026 Comments Off on Ceramics Subscribers blog: Jessica Crisp
Dylan Esposito, Without Words, 2024. Image credit: Finn Rabbitt Dove.

RSA Residencies for Scotland: Artist Announcement 2026

We are delighted to announce that Dylan Esposito has been selected by SSW for the RSA Residencies for Scotland programme. Through this Dylan will undertake a 4 week residency and our metal fabrication course. RSA Residencies for Scotland is a scheme which provides valuable research and development opportunities for visual artists. It forges important networks with centres of artistic excellence across Scotland, ranging from traditional residency venues to specialised production facilities. In response to recieving the award, Dylan says:I’m incredibly excited […]

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Artists / News / Residencies / Residency / Residency 12:01 pm , May 29, 2026 Comments Off on RSA Residencies for Scotland: Artist Announcement 2026
SSW Materials Garden, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw

Community Making Space Spring/Summer 2026

In Spring and Summer 2026, the Community Making Space programme at Scottish Sculpture Workshop brings together a new series of creative sessions shaped around making, growing, gathering and spending time together. Responding to the changing seasons, the programme explores a range of materials, processes and creative approaches inspired by the landscape around us and the rhythms of the year, with opportunities to experiment, learn new skills and make alongside others within the warmth and light of the new season. The […]

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Community Making Space 4:47 pm , May 26, 2026 Comments Off on Community Making Space Spring/Summer 2026
Glass fusing with Hazel MacLennan, image credit: SSW

Community Making Space Blog: Winter Programme Reflection & Pictures

From late January to April 2026, as winter settled in, the Community Making Space here at SSW continued to offer a place for people to gather, make, and spend time together. We worked closely with our Community Advisers to shape the programme, building on what we had learned in the previous season and introducing changes in response to this. These included longer two part sessions and a continued focus on outdoor, seasonal activity. Despite, or because of, the colder weather, […]

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News 5:10 pm , April 30, 2026 Comments Off on Community Making Space Blog: Winter Programme Reflection & Pictures
Donnah and Ceramics Technican Amy at a pit firing, image credit: SSW

Ceramics Subscribers blog: Donnah Murray / Roots and Cadence

Each month we are sharing more about our Ceramic Subscribers who join us year round in the Ceramics Studio at SSW.  Ceramics Subscription enables people to have regular, independent access to SSW’s Ceramics Studio along with some technical guidance. It is aimed at supporting a broad range of people both artists and makers with existing skills and experience working in ceramics as well as those who are beginners, and are keen to develop their ceramics skills and knowledge with regular […]

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Artists / Ceramics / News 5:07 pm , April 30, 2026 Comments Off on Ceramics Subscribers blog: Donnah Murray / Roots and Cadence
Co-Director Sam returns from delivering Community Fridge items out in Lumsden, image credit: SSW

18 months with the SCAN e-cargo bike

It has been 18 months since Scottish Contemporary Art Network (SCAN) provided us with one of their e-cargo bikes, giving our staff team, artists, and local community an easy, emission-free way to travel and transport items around the village. Over the past year and a half, the bike has become a well-used part of life at SSW and a shared resource in and around Lumsden. It has supported everything from practical site tasks to community activities and village events. The […]

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News 1:51 pm , March 30, 2026 Comments Off on 18 months with the SCAN e-cargo bike