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Job Opportunity: SSW Summer Technician

We’re currently recruiting a Summer Technician, to join SSW’s technical team during our busy 2026 Summer programme. The deadline for applications is Friday 27 March 2026, 12 midday. Interviews will be held on Friday 3 April 2026. Apply online here. Job Title: Summer Technician Salary: £28,000 – £32,000 (pro-rata) depending on experience, valid certifications and training. Pension: 5% pension contribution Hours:  0.6 (3 days/ 22.5 hrs per week) fixed term for 4 months, may include working weekends and evenings as requiredContract: […]

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News / Opportunities 2:27 pm , February 27, 2026 Comments Off on Job Opportunity: SSW Summer Technician
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Gray’s MA Art & Design Blog: SSW Visit

In February 2026, students from the MA Art & Design programme at Gray’s School of Art visited Scottish Sculpture Workshop as part of the Critical and Contextual Studies module, led by Dr Jennifer Clarke. The visit formed part of the programme’s research-led approach to practice, which explores how knowledge is generated through material engagement, site-responsiveness, and interdisciplinary making environments. Rather than a standalone workshop, the session was embedded within the curriculum as a way of examining relationships between theory, field-based […]

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News 9:52 pm , February 26, 2026 Comments Off on Gray’s MA Art & Design Blog: SSW Visit
Image Credit: Stacy Makishi’s Walking Each Other Home, Giddy Up Hastings (2025) photo Alice Denny

Do It Together (DIT):  Artist Announcement and Open Call

We are excited to announce that Stacy Makishi will be leading the SSW x TMS DIT here in September and we are currently calling out for participants to join the Camp Fire Disco! Camp Fire Disco! is a 3 day residential led by Stacy Makishi at Scottish Sculpture Workshop. It offers people interested in Live Art and performance time to connect, with themselves and with each other. In Stacy’s words: Doom & despair is everywhere. The question isn’t whether we’re facing […]

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News 1:19 pm , January 23, 2026 Comments Off on Do It Together (DIT):  Artist Announcement and Open Call
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Community Making Space Blog: Autumn Programme Reflection & Pictures

Throughout October to December 2025, the Community Making Space at Scottish Sculpture Workshop continued to be a place for local residents to gather, make, and spend time together. The Autumn season was full of conversation and hands-on activity, with people taking part week after week, building confidence, friendships, and curiosity as they tried new processes or honed existing skills along the way. The Autumn season was shaped by listening to what our community wants – through conversations with Advisors, feedback, […]

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News 12:04 pm , January 22, 2026 Comments Off on Community Making Space Blog: Autumn Programme Reflection & Pictures

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

SSW is excited to announce that Ellie Ballantine has been selected to undertake the SGSAH Artist Residency at SSW. Ellie will be working over 3 months to explore Regenerative Materials and Community Knowledge within Arts Practice. Working alongside our Community Making Space Ellie will explore the potential of working with locally grown, regenerative materials and how these materials positively impact community regeneration, empowerment, wellbeing and economies. Ellie says:‘I am delighted to contribute to SSW’s Regenerative Materials and Community Knowledge within […]

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News 3:17 pm , January 16, 2026 Comments Off on Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) Artist Residency: Artist Announcement 
Group residents outside SSW with some of the SSW staff team. Image by SSW.

2025 Group Residency 3: In Pictures 

It was a delight to welcome artists Hannah Ekuwa Buckman (England), Hannah Leighton-Boyce (England), Jessica Crisp (Scotland), Lily Lavorato (Scotland), Maïa Taïeb (Netherlands), Molly M. Whawell (Scotland) and Nicky May Bolland (Scotland) to SSW in October, as our third and final cohort of artists selected for Group Residency 2025. Over the course of their month-long residency, the group had inductions and support in ceramics, metalwork, blacksmithing and stonework. Alongside developing their practices in the workshops & studio, the group took […]

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News 12:19 pm , January 9, 2026 Comments Off on 2025 Group Residency 3: In Pictures 
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SSW Winter Closure

The 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 […]

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News 1:35 pm , December 18, 2025 Comments Off on SSW Winter Closure
Jodi Le Bigre in the SSW Ceramics Studio, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw

RSA Residencies for Scotland Blog: Jodi Le Bigre

Earlier 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, […]

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News 1:35 pm , December 18, 2025 Comments Off on RSA Residencies for Scotland Blog: Jodi Le Bigre
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Announcing Ecologies In The Making: Sculpting Futures Artist 2026

We 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, […]

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News 1:34 pm , December 18, 2025 Comments Off on Announcing Ecologies In The Making: Sculpting Futures Artist 2026
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Open Call: Group Residency 2026

Applications to Group Residency 2026 are now closed. SSW 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, […]

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News 6:22 pm , November 28, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: Group Residency 2026