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A person angle grinding in SSW's metal workshop. She is wearing a dark blue boilersuit and PPE. Sparks are flying from the grinder and metal.RSA Residencies for Scotland 2024 artist Jodi le Bigre at SSW, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw.

Open Call: RSA Residencies for Scotland

SSW is delighted to be participating in the RSA Residencies for Scotland programme to offer one artist a 1-2 month(s)-long funded residency in 2026. RSA Residencies for Scotland is an artist-led scheme which provides valuable research and development opportunities for visual artists. It forges important networks with centres of artistic excellence across Scotland, ranging from traditional residency venues to specialised production facilities. Open to artists at all stages of their careers and free to apply, the emphasis is on enabling […]

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News 1:33 pm , September 24, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: RSA Residencies for Scotland
Caregivers Residency artist Morven Mulgrew, image credit: SSW

Open Call: SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency

The SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency is 5!  2025 marks the 5th year of the collaboration between SSW and Counterflows Festival offering vital residency opportunities to Scotland based artists who are also caregivers. To celebrate this important milestone, and with the generous support of the William Grant Foundation and Creative Scotland, this year we are offering 5 fully funded residencies. The SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency offers: This residency recognises that the care of others is central to the collective survival […]

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News 5:33 pm , September 11, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency
Group Residents, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw

Group Residency 2025 Aug & Sep: 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 […]

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News 4:28 pm , September 5, 2025 Comments Off on Group Residency 2025 Aug & Sep: Artist Announcment
2025 Ecologies in the Making artist Harriina Räinä, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw

Open Call: Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures

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 Foundation. The project aims to build a dialogue between […]

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News 4:27 pm , September 5, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures
Kids Club with their banner in Lumsden Park, image: SSW

Spring Community Making Space Programme: In Pictures

What a Spring and Summer we have had in Lumsden! Blue skies, long days, short nights and much outdoor fun. We kicked off our Spring Community Making Space programme with a wide range of Thursday Making Sessions. Through these we developed our Materials Garden – building up the nitrogen in the soil (with thanks to the local horses), clearing scrub areas of the site, deciding what to grow and germinating seeds. We also learnt from artist Claire Rayner how to […]

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News 4:58 pm , August 7, 2025 Comments Off on Spring Community Making Space Programme: In Pictures
Group Residency artists in the ceramics workshop with SSW technician Amy Benzie

2025 Group Residency 1: In Pictures

It was fantastic to welcome artists Alaya Ang (Scotland), Holly Bobisuthi (USA), Jonny Walker (Scotland) and Kishita Nayyar (England) to SSW in May, to take part in the first Group Residency of 2025.  The Group Residency artists were also joined by RSA Residencies for Scotland artist Jodi de Bigre and Open Access Residency artists Marianne Mulvey and Dinda Fass. Over the course of their month-long residency, the group had inductions and support in ceramics, metalwork, blacksmithing and stonework. Alongside developing […]

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News 4:16 pm , August 7, 2025 Comments Off on 2025 Group Residency 1: In Pictures
SSW Materials Garden, image credit: SSW

Introducing the SSW Materials Garden

This year, as part of the completion of Phase 1 of our Capital work at SSW we started to slowly cultivate a Materials Garden. The Materials Garden is currently formed of a number of raised beds and recently cleared borders that now contain plants for natural dyeing and various willow and small tree varieties for future use in creating armatures, ash glazes and green wood working. These plants are joined by a wide range of pollinators that add to the bio-diversity […]

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News 3:27 pm , August 6, 2025 Comments Off on Introducing the SSW Materials Garden
Work in progress, image credit: Eva Sajovic

Residency Blog: Eva Sajovic

Below artist Eva Sajovic reflects on her two week Open Access (O/A) Residency at SSW. O/A Residencies are available throughout the year, for artists, makers or individuals wishing to develop a project, fabricate work or spend time with their practice. Words and Images by Eva Sajovic — My two-week residency at Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW), supported by a Developing Your Creative Practive (DYCP) grant from Arts Council England, offered a welcome shift from the urgency of London into a slower, […]

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News 3:55 pm , June 27, 2025 Comments Off on Residency Blog: Eva Sajovic
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 […]

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News 3:50 pm , June 27, 2025 Comments Off on SSW Team Travels: Degree Shows 2025
Morven and the wood kiln, image credit: SSW

Caregivers Residency Blog: Morven Mulgrew

Below Morven Mulgrew, one of the 2024 SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency artists reflects on her time here. This residency was set up in 2020 to expand funded residency opportunities to artists who are also caregivers. The 2025 call out will be launching soon. Words by Morven Mulgrew, images by Morven Mulgrew and SSW — PART ONE:  MY CANDIDACY FOR SUITABILITY FOR THE DESIGNATED ROLE OF CARE-GIVER The application for the residency said I wanted to explore the politics of […]

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News 3:46 pm , June 27, 2025 Comments Off on Caregivers Residency Blog: Morven Mulgrew