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Artists on residency with some of the SSW team, image credit: SSW

Group Residency 2025: Artist Announcment

We are delighted to announce Alaya Ang, Holly Bobisuthi, Jonny Walker, Kishita Nayyar and Nicky May Bolland as our first group of artists selected for Group Residency 2025. The SSW team look forward to supporting the artists in developing 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 we share more […]

Mould making at MAKE, Eindhoven, image credit: SSW

SSW Team Travels this Spring

The SSW team have taken some time to reflect and share updates from their Spring travels before they dive into their busy Summer season. It has been great to spend time with colleagues across the UK and Europe as well as make visits closer to home to grow our important partnerships, undertake training and check out other exciting workshop spaces as we make plans towards the second phase of our capital planning. Our team’s travels started in March with Ceramics […]

Community Making Space Spring Programme 2025

We are excited to share our Spring 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. As Winter gives way to Spring, our new programme celebrates the season of growth, renewal and new beginnings within these sessions. Emerging from our winter season, which included quilting, candlemaking […]

Summer Holiday Art Club 2025

Summer Holiday Art Club (7-11 years old) Monday 7 – Friday 11 July 202510 am – 1 pmFreeBooking essential Working with a contemporary artist, children will build on our work from previous holiday clubs to explore the development of public art work by creating sculptural artworks to be installed at SSW. Together they will explore textile techniques, dyeing and printing as well as ways for young people to express their ideas and voices in public through these works.  How to […]

Easter Holiday Art Club 2025

Tuesday 8 – Friday 11 April 202510 am – 1 pmFreeBooking essential Join us for our annual Easter Holiday Art Club where we will be creating sculptures for our very own public sculpture trail. Throughout the week we’ll be exploring public art and working in teams to build our own temporary, public sculptures from found materials. We’ll end the week with a village wide sculpture trail scavenger hunt, collecting answers to riddles which will lead us to a secret lunch […]

Large Sculptural Handbuilding

Dates: Friday 27 February – Sunday 1 March 2026 Time: Teaching starts at 10am and finishes around 4pm. Cost: £400 including VAT (includes tuition, materials, consumables, firings and 2 nights accommodation). Catering: This course is fully self catered. Places: 8 (Beginner+) Information on access is at the bottom of this page. In this course, participants will be guided through a range of processes in hand-building with clay with encouragement to go big! Together we will explore traditional techniques including coiling, […]

Introduction to Metal Fabrication

Dates: Friday 3 – Sunday 5 October 2025 Time: Teaching starts at 10am and finishes around 4pm. Cost: £400 including VAT (includes tuition, materials, PPE and accommodation). Catering: This course is fully self catered. Places: 4 (Beginner+) Information on access is at the bottom of this page. In this course, participants will learn how to start working with, or develop their skills in metal. Through the course participants will learn: – Ways of cutting, hand forming, bending and manipulating thin […]

A group of artists in brightly coloured boiler suits are stonecarving at individual workbenches, in a sunny yard.Stonecarving in the SSW yard, image credit SSW

Introduction to Stonecarving

Dates: Friday 19 – Sunday 21 September 2025 Time: Teaching starts at 10am and finishes around 4pm. Cost: £400 including VAT (includes tuition, materials, PPE and 2 nights accommodation). Catering: This course is fully self catered. Places: 6 (Beginner+) Information on access is at the bottom of this page. Join us for 3 days delving into the wonders of stone carving using hand tools. The course will be led by established stone mason, artist and freelance SSW Stone Technician Lewis […]

A person to the left of the image is holding a glaze test tile with an emerald green glaze at the top. Underneath there are a selection of glaze test tiles in a range of greens, blues and browns. The person holding the test tile is wearing a checked apron, only the apron and hands are visible.Image Credit: SSW

Glaze Intensive 2026

Dates: Mon 2 – Fri 6 November 2026  *We can offer accommodation on the Sunday evening for people travelling from further afield for an additional £36. Please email accounts@ssw.org.uk if this is required, following booking online. Time: Teaching starts at 10am and finishes around 4pm. The optional evening programme will start from 5pm. Cost: £665 (includes tuition, materials, consumables, firings, PPE, accommodation). Places: 6 Level: Some knowledge or experience of using clay required. Information on access is at the bottom […]

Woodfiring Intensive

Dates: Monday 22 – Friday 26 September 2025 Time: Teaching starts at 10am and finishes around 4pm. Cost: Introductory price of £500 including VAT (includes tuition, materials, consumables, firings, PPE and 4 nights accommodation). Catering: Not included Places: 8 (Beginner+) Information on access is at the bottom of this page. *We can offer accommodation on the Sunday evening for people travelling from further afield for an additional £36. Please email accounts@ssw.org.uk if this is required, following booking online. We are […]