Image credit: SSWThe team at SSW are heading off on their annual winter break and the site will be closed from Friday 19 December – Monday 5 January. We have had a wonderful year and we are all filled with deep gratitude to everyone we have shared time and space with here at SSW this year. To our Board of Trustees, artist residents, community members, young people, community advisors and vital partners – we thank you for a truly special and transformational […]
Jodi Le Bigre in the SSW Ceramics Studio, image credit: Felicity CrawshawEarlier this year in May and August, we were delighted to welcome RSA Residencies for Scotland artist Jodi Le Bigre to SSW. Below, Jodi shares an introduction to the work she developed during her residency and reflects on her time at SSW. SSW is excited to be participating in the RSA Residencies for Scotland programme again, to offer one artist a 1-2 month(s)-long funded residency in 2026. For more information and to apply, visit The RSA website.Deadline: Sunday 18 January 2026, […]
Roy Boswell, image credit: Liisa MudistWe are delighted to announce that University of the Arts Helsinki alumni Roy Boswell has been selected for Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures residency programme 2026, a joint residency with SSW and Cove Park in Argyll and Bute. Roy will be coming to SSW for 2 months, following a 2 month residency at Cove Park in Summer 2026. Roy Boswell is a sculptor from Helsinki, they describe their work as: Being concerned with the durational qualities of materials and combining objects with music and organised sound, […]
SSW metal workshop, image credit: Felicity CrawshawSSW is delighted to invite applications for Group Residency 2026! Find out more and apply here: Group Residency 2026 Group Residency is a special time at SSW. It offers artists dedicated space and support for the development of their practice, through a series of inductions and intros to our facilities including ceramics, metal fabrication, blacksmithing and stonework. This is coupled with social spaces to support artists coming together for sauna, artists sharings, film nights, meals and walks in our rural […]
Harriina working in the shared SSW studio. Image credit: Felicity CrawshawEcologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures 2025 residency artist Harriina Räinä, reflects on her time in Scotland, first on residency at Cove Park in Argyll and Bute, followed by residency at SSW. The aim of the Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures residency is to support visual artists to study and develop ecological methods and contexts for their artistic practice. This residency is made possible for Academy of Fine Arts alumni through the Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts and […]
Alicia Matthews, image courtesy of the artistFollowing our recent open call, SSW and Counterflows Festival are delighted to be supporting the following artists to undertake the SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency in 2026: Alicia Matthews Belladonna PalomaKatie SchwabOlive Jones Shiori Usui These 5 fully funded residencies are made possible with the generous support of the William Grant Foundation and Creative Scotland. The selection panel included previous SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency artists Juliana Capes, Keng Keng Tang, Oren Shoesmith & Rabindranath X Bhose, as well as […]
Group Residents in the Materials Garden, image credit: SSW
SSW co-directors Ruaridh Allen, Sara Gallie and Sam Trotman, image credit: Felicity CrawshawSSW 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 […]
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, […]
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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