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Someone hammers red hot steel bar on an anvil wearing an orange boiler suitPhoto: Naomi Pearce, Nine Parts Navvy (2017). Photo: SSW

SSW is 40: Community Making Sessions

Forming part of our 40th anniversary celebrations, we invite our neighbours in Lumsden, Kildrummy and Towie to come along and try something new in our Community Making Sessions. Join us for free workshops in blacksmithing, aluminium casting and jesmonite casting for all ages and abilities, led by highly skilled artists and technicians. Celebrating 40 years of SSW, these Community Making Sessions are a chance to share in the skills and processes available at SSW Lumsden. Each workshop will enable you […]

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Events / News 1:53 pm , October 23, 2019 Comments Off on SSW is 40: Community Making Sessions

SSW is 40!

SSW is 40! is taking place on Saturday 2 & Sunday 3 November 2019 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of Scottish Sculpture Workshop, and with it 40 years of making here on our site in Lumsden, Aberdeenshire. We gladly invite you to join us in celebrating this milestone with a special weekend of processes, performances and partying. Looking back, we will share multiple forms of making central to SSW; a performative iron pour, a breakfast pot-luck and collaborative works in […]

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News 2:44 pm , October 22, 2019 Comments Off on SSW is 40!
Maija Annikki Savolainen, Spectral beings (2019)

(re)constituting residency – with/in other centres

Gathering by land, sea and screen, in (re)constituting residency, North AiR artists and network partners invite you to join talks and open discussions, probing the future of artists’ residency in a time of ecological breakdown. Sharing learning from the North AiR pilot residency exchange, artists George Ridgeway (UK) and Maija Annikki Savolainen (FI) will open up their research and practices, developed through residency exchange with organisations in Scotland; Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Taigh Chearsabhagh with University of the Highlands and Islands, […]

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News 2:29 pm , October 21, 2019 Comments Off on (re)constituting residency – with/in other centres
Capital Project ManagerPhoto: Erika Stevenson

Invitation to quote for Capital Project Manager

Deadline for submission of quotations: Wednesday 13 November 2019, 1pm Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW) is seeking quotes from experienced Capital Project Managers to oversee all aspects of our upcoming Capital Development phase. Following the completion of a Feasibility Study in 2018, we are looking to address the urgent need for upgrading the SSW site, so that the facilities are fit for purpose, artists, organisational needs and ambition. The successful bid will have specific expertise in capital development, business development in […]

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News 3:58 pm , October 9, 2019 Comments Off on Invitation to quote for Capital Project Manager
The students at Lumsden primary school in their den with artist Eothen Stearn

Lumsden Residency: Eothen Stearn

Our third Lumsden Residency artist of 2019 is Eothen Stearn, whose practice roams between the intimacy of personal relations, the details of everyday life, music, feminism and science fiction. Bringing these diverse interests to SSW, Eo worked together with the pupils at Lumsden Primary School to build a den, thinking about it as collectively making a multi-sensory environment, or installation, in the local woodland. Eothen Stearn joined us in September 2019 for a month-long residency alongside the last of our […]

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News / Residencies 11:31 am , October 8, 2019 Comments Off on Lumsden Residency: Eothen Stearn

North AiR: Maija Annikki Savolainen

This week our North AiR: Expanding Entanglements residency artist, Maija Annikki Savolainen, leaves SSW to travel to our next partner in the North AiR residency and research cooperation, Taigh Chearsabhagh on North Uist. “Thinking photography under the horizon of extinction will allow me to draw two temporal lines in the history of this particular medium: one extended towards the past, the other – toward the future. If we consider the history of photography as part of the broader natural-cultural history […]

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News / Residencies 10:38 am , September 16, 2019 Comments Off on North AiR: Maija Annikki Savolainen

Summer Residents 2019: September

A new group of residents has arrived at SSW for the third and final Summer Residency of 2019, and the site is buzzing once again. Below, we share an insight into their practices, and their plans for the month-long residency here. The third Summer Residency runs from 2 — 29 September 2019. Na LuiParis, France With a background in fashion, Na uses assemblage and cut-up fragments from literature as the starting point for her work. At SSW, she wants to […]

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News / Residencies 1:36 pm , September 11, 2019 Comments Off on Summer Residents 2019: September

Lumsden Residency: Romy Danielewicz

Our second Lumsden Residency artist of 2019 is Romy Danielewicz, whose performance and writing-based practice looks at post-human perspectives, ecological and systemic breakdown. During Romy’s residency they devised a workshop drawing on ancient farming methods and the cyclical farming calendar. With the students at Lumsden Primary School, they collectively developed movements and routines based on these actions towards a collaborative dance score. Below, Romy shares some drawings and words from the workshop. Romy will return to SSW in November this […]

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News / Residencies 12:05 pm , September 11, 2019 Comments Off on Lumsden Residency: Romy Danielewicz

Programme and Communications Internship: Camille Biddell

One month into my internship at SSW, here are some snapshots of life in Lumsden. Time passes strangely – 4 weeks isn’t so long but the start feels a long time ago. Life has a different pace and is punctuated with memorable moments…. Driving up from the south, the roads get quieter and quieter, hills rise slowly and the sun spreads copper warmth on gentle peaks Watching molten bronze pour into molds Stealing sunny moments to swim in the river, […]

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News 10:18 am , September 9, 2019 Comments Off on Programme and Communications Internship: Camille Biddell
Raku firing!

Summer Residency: August 2019

In August, we welcomed Claire Baily (UK), Chelsea Farquhar (AU) and Tal Gafny (IL), alongside Lumsden resident Romy Danielewicz (UK) for our second Summer Residency of 2019. Living and working together for one month on our site in Aberdeenshire,  the group developed strong friendships, connections and a love of wild swimming, whilst learning new skills and developing work across our facilities. With a practice rooted in casting, Claire utilised and explored these skills to explore mapping within her sculptures. Bringing […]

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News / Residencies 7:57 pm , August 28, 2019 Comments Off on Summer Residency: August 2019