Image courtesy of David BlythSSW PUBLIC TALKS 2017 During the months of June and September, SSW held a series of open talks to accompany our Summer AiR programme. The 2017 talks programme was informed by our Frontiers in Retreat project, a five year EU collaboration exploring art and local ecologies. Invited speakers came from a range of backgrounds with specialised and varied knowledge relating to the landscape in the North East. In June artist David Blyth gave a talk that shared his ideas in progress, relating to a long term research project that explores his […]
Pokers made at Forge Club, SSW (2021). Photo: Zoë TumikaBooking Book your place on the Introduction to Blacksmithing course below. You will receive a booking confirmation email once your booking is complete. Please read or listen to our Courses terms and conditions before making a booking.
Art, Institutions and the Mechanics of an Avant-garde Upon a Viscous and Loud Earth – click to view pdf The above essay was written by Marc Herbst for Frontiers in Retreat, following his invitation to participate in and critically respond to the SSW Incubator – Sitting on Eggs: ‘What Happens After the Artwork’ – a three-day Frontiers gathering at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop during March 2016. SSW would like to thank Marc not only for this text but for his generous participation, […]
Splat, Squish, Resist (2018) India Harvey. Photo: Erika StevensonApplications for the Lumsden Residency have now closed. The Lumsden Residency looks to support artists with collective learning and making practices, who are looking to develop and test out their modes of inquiry through residency at SSW and working with students at Lumsden Primary School. Together with the students, we welcome applications from artists that explore the multiple and expanded ways in which we can make, live and learn together. There are three part-funded residencies available, each a month long, […]
Photo Credit: Ronnie Temple Scottish Sculpture Workshop is delighted to announce the appointment of our new Director, Sam Trotman. Sam has previously worked as Education Producer at Artsadmin, a producing organisation that supports artists to create bold new work through a programme of bursaries, commissions and projects from their Toynbee Studios base in East London. There, Sam started the education department and ran high quality, innovative projects with an emphasis on supporting early career artists. She is also co-Chair of […]
For the last 2 weeks SSW has been running the second instalment of our From Turf to Tools project. The project revolves working with master blacksmith and all round ancient dude Darrell Markewitz in the building of Pictish style smelting furnaces for processing ore to create iron. The project has been experimental in nature. We have been attempting to us peat as a fuel and local ore as our base material. The First experiment, using local ore and charcoal as […]
Hannah Imlach, Nautilus Turbine, tulip wood, birch plywood, acrylic tube and cork, 2016SSW PUBLIC TALKS 2016
During the months of June, August and September, SSW held a series of open talks to accompany our Summer AiR programme. Each month an artist/ curator, based in Scotland, was invited to share their practice with us and the wider community. It also functioned as an opportunity to share the SSW space and to meet our artists in residents.
September sees the return of master blacksmith and expert in ancient metal working techniques Darrell Markewitz for the second part of the Turf to Tools project. Following on from the first phase held at SSW in 2014 we will carry out further research into Pictish iron production and the creation of tools and artefacts. During the two week project there will be opportunities to come and observe the iron smelting process and forge work demonstrations. 17th September: The crew will attempt […]
The SSW Open Doors Weekend will take place on the last weekend in August. We welcome people to come along, get involved, try their hand at something new and maybe come back for more. SSW is based around the facilitation of artist residencies, the delivery of projects and the provision of facilities, as well as offering Open Access to workshops for all. Running as an Open Access facility is important to us; offering opportunities for artists to make their work, […]
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