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Group Residency 2025: Artist Announcment

We are delighted to announce Hannah Ekuwa Buckman, Hannah Leighton-Boyce, Jessica Crisp, Lily Lavorato, Maïa Taïeb, Molly M. Whawell and Nicky May Bolland as our third and final cohort of artists selected for Group Residency 2025. The SSW team are excited to be supporting the artists to develop their practices over the course of their month-long residency. Alongside inductions and support in ceramics, metalwork, blacksmithing and stonework, Group Residency includes a collective programme of walks, sauna, film nights, potluck meals, […]

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News 2:10 pm , October 31, 2025 Comments Off on Group Residency 2025: Artist Announcment

Open Call: Do It Together 2026 call for proposals

SSW is excited to be partnering again with Live Art Development Agency (LADA) and also this year with the wonderful Take Me Somewhere on Do It Together (DIT), a peer-to-peer professional development programme that enables artists to explore ideas, aesthetics and socio-political realities together.  SSW alongside LADA and Take Me Somewhere are now calling out for proposals from Live Art practitioners to think about Material Agency and how they are working together with landscape, objects and materials and how they can share this with others.  […]

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News 2:09 pm , October 31, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: Do It Together 2026 call for proposals
Image credit: Felicity Crawshaw

Open Call: Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) Artist Residency

SSW is delighted to partner with Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) to host a PhD researcher to spend up to three months on residency at SSW exploring Regenerative Materials and Community Knowledge within Arts Practice. We are continuing to develop our work in this area and are seeking to support a PhD residency for an artist/researcher to collaborate with SSW and our local community through the Community Making Space Programme, exploring the potentials of working with locally […]

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News 2:38 pm , October 28, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) Artist Residency
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Community Making Space Autumn Programme 2025

We are excited to share our Autumn Community Making Space programme developed in collaboration with our Community Advisory Group and other members of our local community.  Check out the full programme in the menu on the right and head to the bottom of this page for more info on booking.  Come along to Scottish Sculpture Workshop this Autumn for a new season of making, sharing and learning together. As the days grow shorter and colder, our Community Making Space invites […]

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Community Making Space 4:46 pm , October 17, 2025 Comments Off on Community Making Space Autumn Programme 2025
A person angle grinding in SSW's metal workshop. She is wearing a dark blue boilersuit and PPE. Sparks are flying from the grinder and metal.RSA Residencies for Scotland 2024 artist Jodi Le Bigre at SSW, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw.

Open Call: RSA Residencies for Scotland

SSW is delighted to be participating in the RSA Residencies for Scotland programme to offer one artist a 1-2 month(s) funded residency in 2026. RSA Residencies for Scotland is an artist-led 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. Open to artists at all stages of their careers and free to apply, the emphasis is on enabling […]

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News 1:33 pm , September 24, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: RSA Residencies for Scotland

Group Residency 2025: Artist Announcment

We are delighted to announce Ali Farrelly, Dani Andres Ordoñez Muñoz, Kim West, Ruby Reding and Stefan Jovanović Kaasa as our second group of artists selected for Group Residency 2025. The SSW team are excited to be supporting the artists to develop their practices over the course of their month-long residency. 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.  Below […]

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News 4:28 pm , September 5, 2025 Comments Off on Group Residency 2025: Artist Announcment
2025 Ecologies in the Making artist Harriina Räinä, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw

Open Call: Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures

The deadline for applications has now closed. Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency is open to Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts graduates. We are excited to announce that the call for applications from recent graduates of Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of the Fine Arts to the Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures programme is now live! This four-month residency is offered jointly by Cove Park and Scottish Sculpture Workshop is part of the International Incubators in Fine Arts project, established by Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts and the Saastamoinen […]

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News 4:27 pm , September 5, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures
Arabella Joy Sciallo, Fine Art at Gray's School of Art, image credit: SSW

SSW Team Travels: Degree Shows 2025

This May and June the SSW team enjoyed trips to: Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Gray’s School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art and Glasgow School of Art to visit the Degree Shows of this year’s graduating students. It was fantastic to see the range and quality of work across different courses and disiplines. Below is a selection of just some of our many highlights, taken by the SSW team whilst out and about. – A massive […]

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News 3:50 pm , June 27, 2025 Comments Off on SSW Team Travels: Degree Shows 2025
An artist in blue overalls and yellow gloves and face protection is plasma cutting in the SSW metal workshop.Plasma cutting in the SSW metal workshop, image credit: SSW

Open Call: Scotland’s Workshops Award

SSW is part of Scotland’s Workshops, a network of 10 visual arts production facilities across the country and together we’re excited to share the Scotland’s Workshops Award. This award provides a Scotland based, emerging artist* with time, support and financial means to experiment and gain new skills through spending time at 2 of the 10 visual art production facilities across Scotland that make up Scotland’s Workshops.  The selected artist will receive a bursary of: £2500 artists bursary£1500 production bursary to cover tuition, […]

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Artists / News / Opportunities 7:17 pm , June 12, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: Scotland’s Workshops Award
Two people are working together at a potter's wheel and a backdrop of shiny gold curtainTwo people are working together at a potter's wheel and a backdrop of shiny gold curtain, image by SSW.

Job Opportunity: SSW Communities Producer

Please note that the deadline for this opportunity has now passed. We’re currently recruiting a new Communities Producer, an exciting key role at SSW, vital to the collective development and delivery of the Community Making Space programme. The deadline for applications is Wednesday 2 July 2025, 12 midday and all applicants will be notified by the w/c 7th July. Interviews will be held on Thursday 17th July. Job Title: Communities ProducerSalary: £28,000 – £32,00 (pro rata) + 5% employers pension […]

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News / Opportunities 5:20 pm , May 29, 2025 Comments Off on Job Opportunity: SSW Communities Producer