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Academy of Fine Arts alumni Harriina RäinäPHOTO: 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 on Announcing Ecologies In The Making: Sculpting Futures Artist 2025
Claire Sawers - Caregivers EssayImage 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 on Caregivers Essay by Claire Sawers
Oil Publication - Front Cover

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 on OIL Publication Launch:  Practices of Refusal & Redistribution
Oil Publication - Front Cover

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 on OIL – A publication by Rachel Grant (Fertile ground)