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Group Residents in the Materials Garden, image credit: SSW

2025 Group Residency 2: In Pictures

It was fantastic to welcome artists Ali Farrelly (Scotland), Dani Andres Ordoñez Muñoz (Netherlands), Kim West (Catalonia), Ruby Reding (Netherlands) and Stefan Jovanović Kaasa (England) to SSW in August, to take part in the second Group Residency of 2025.  The Group Residency artists were also joined by Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures artist Harriina Räinä and RSA Residencies for Scotland artist Jodi Le Bigre. Over the course of their month-long residency, the group had inductions and support in ceramics, metalwork, blacksmithing and stonework. […]

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News 4:31 pm , October 31, 2025 Comments Off on 2025 Group Residency 2: In Pictures
SSW co-directors Ruaridh Allen, Sara Gallie and Sam Trotman, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw

SSW Team Updates

SSW is thrilled to have recently welcomed new members to the team and for existing team members to take on new roles. First up, Ruaridh Allen is our new co-director at SSW, completing our Multi-Voiced Leadership team. Ruaridh joins as the first Technical Director of SSW, accompanying Sara Gallie (Finance and Governance Director) and Sam Trotman (Programme & Partnerships Director). Ruaridh joined SSW in Summer 2024 as Technical Manager on a 12 month pathway to this role. Over his past year […]

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News 2:12 pm , October 31, 2025 Comments Off on SSW Team Updates
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Group Residency 2025: Artist Announcment

We are delighted to announce Hannah Ekuwa Buckman, Hannah Leighton-Boyce, Jessica Crisp, Lily Lavorato, Maïa Taïeb, Molly M. Whawell and Nicky May Bolland as our third and final cohort 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, […]

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News 2:10 pm , October 31, 2025 Comments Off on Group Residency 2025: Artist Announcment

Open Call: Do It Together 2026 call for proposals

SSW is excited to be partnering again with Live Art Development Agency (LADA) and also this year with the wonderful Take Me Somewhere on Do It Together (DIT), a peer-to-peer professional development programme that enables artists to explore ideas, aesthetics and socio-political realities together.  SSW alongside LADA and Take Me Somewhere are now calling out for proposals from Live Art practitioners to think about Material Agency and how they are working together with landscape, objects and materials and how they can share this with others.  […]

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News 2:09 pm , October 31, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: Do It Together 2026 call for proposals
Image credit: Felicity Crawshaw

Open Call: Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) Artist Residency

SSW is delighted to partner with Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) to host a PhD researcher to spend up to three months on residency at SSW exploring Regenerative Materials and Community Knowledge within Arts Practice. We are continuing to develop our work in this area and are seeking to support a PhD residency for an artist/researcher to collaborate with SSW and our local community through the Community Making Space Programme, exploring the potentials of working with locally […]

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News 2:38 pm , October 28, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) Artist Residency

Recent SSW Courses: In Pictures

Our 2025/26 courses programme kicked off in July with our week-long Glaze Intensive, followed by the first of our Long Weekend courses Introduction to Stone Carving and brand new Woodfiring Intensive both taking place this September.  During the day, participants were able to get to grips with new materials and processes in the SSW workshops and yard, with comprehensive technical support from our experienced and knowledgeable team. Following learning and experimentation in our workshop spaces, in the evenings, there was […]

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News 6:03 pm , September 30, 2025 Comments Off on Recent SSW Courses: In Pictures

SSW Bothy Renovation Completed: In Pictures

We are excited to finally share with you images of our newly renovated bothy and landscaped areas at SSW.We completed the bothy in March 2025 and it has since been well used by artists and our local community. The bothy is the social heart of the SSW site, a space where resident artists cook, relax and generally hang out when not in the workshops. It also hosts community workshops and events outwith residencies and provides an inviting and comfortable space […]

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News 6:02 pm , September 30, 2025 Comments Off on SSW Bothy Renovation Completed: In Pictures
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) 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 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 […]

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News 4:28 pm , September 5, 2025 Comments Off on Group Residency 2025: Artist Announcment