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Group Residencies at SSW in 2024

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 […]

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News 3:27 pm , November 28, 2024 Comments Off

Community Making Space Winter Programme 2024/25

We are excited to share our Winter Community Making Space Programme developed in collaboration with our Community Advisory Group and other members of our local community. In many other northern places Winter is seen as a time to rest and renew – responding to the short days and long nights we experience. The season invites us to slow down and recharge, to find new routines and to spend time in the company of one another. Nature too changes its rhythm […]

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Community Making Space 3:03 pm , November 28, 2024 Comments Off

Thursday Making Sessions – Spring 2025

Our Thursday Making Sessions take place from 11am-1pm in the Community Making Space at SSW and are followed by a cooked lunch. Sessions are free but please book by emailing communities@ssw.org.uk letting us know all of the events you plan to attend. Materials Garden Natural inks and paints with Claire RaynerThursday 24th April 11am – 1pm Join us for a session with local artist and SSW Community Advisor Claire Rayner to create your own natural inks and watercolor paints. We’ll […]

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Community Making Space 3:02 pm , November 28, 2024 Comments Off

Selected Artists for SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency 24-25

Following our recent open call, SSW and Counterflows Festival are delighted to be supporting Juliana Capes and Morven Mulgrew to undertake this year’s Caregivers Residency. The selection panel included previous Caregivers Residency artists Hang Linton and Keng Keng Tang as well as SSW’s Programme Producer Jo Matthews and Counterflows Director Alasdair Campbell. We were delighted and heartened to see the high standard of application this year and thank all the applicants for their time and energy in applying. Through reading […]

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News 11:13 am , October 28, 2024 Comments Off

Community Making Space Blog: Stone Club

Our Kids Holiday Clubs are an integral part of our Community Making Space Programme here at SSW and provide an important pathway for young people to get into workshop spaces. They take place every school holiday and are open to 7-12 year olds and 12 – 17 year olds. This summer we were delighted to have kicked off the holiday programme with Stone Club – a chance for local teens to try their hands at stone carving. Over the summer […]

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Community Making Space / News 10:42 am , October 28, 2024 Comments Off

Academy of Fine Arts alumni Harriina Räinä

PHOTO: SADE KAHRA

Announcing Ecologies In The Making: Sculpting Futures Artist 2025

We are delighted to announce the Academy of Fine Arts alumni Harriina Räinä has been selected for our “Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures” residency programme 2025. Following the open call in September 2024 an international jury of experts pre-selected the grant applicants. Visual artists Heather Peak & Ivan Morison formed part of the preselection panel and said:Harriina’s work is clearly seriously engaged with environmental concerns, and we were impressed by the powerful means of presentation she has developed for […]

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News 10:40 am , October 28, 2024 Comments Off

Image Credit: Claire Sawers

Caregivers Essay by Claire Sawers

We are glad to share Clare Sawers text on the SSW X Counterflows Caregivers residency. Last May Claire took part in a 1 week residency with her son at SSW to write about hers and other artists’ experiences of the programme. Through the essay she discusses how arts organisations can become more welcoming to those with caregiving responsibilities and disabilities, how we might go beyond those funding-bingo buzzwords and explore what it actually means to create communities that look out […]

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News 10:39 am , October 28, 2024 Comments Off

OIL Publication Launch: Practices of Refusal & Redistribution

If you would like a copy of Oil please email sam@ssw.org.uk with your address by the 10th December 2024. Copies will be sent on a first come first served basis. Online launch, Thursday 7th November 6-7pm GMT – this event has now passed. Join us for a presentation and discussion with OIL publication author and editor Rachel Grant (Fertile ground, Aberdeen), Sam Trotman (Programme & Partnerships Director Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, Aberdeenshire), Kathrin Böhm (Myvillages) and Scott Herrett (Just Transition Organiser for Friends […]

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News 6:43 am , October 25, 2024 Comments Off

OIL – A publication by Rachel Grant (Fertile ground)

Publication download This publication has developed from ‘Oil as far as the eye can see – Energy regimes in the everyday’ a tour curated and guided by Rachel Grant that took place across Aberdeen, as part of Myvillages’ Summer Camp titled ‘Who Has the Energy’, commissioned, produced and held at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden, July 2023. Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire have been defined by oil’s discovery offshore in the North Sea. The way oil shapes places is particular. Between villages such as […]

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BEPART / Community / Projects 6:42 am , October 25, 2024 Comments Off

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