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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]