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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
Letitia Pleiades, Sonic Seance – The Gathering (2019). Photo: XXXSonic Séance by V/DA @variousdanceartists. Image: Tiu Makkonen

Artist announced for 2019 SSW x Counterflows residency

We are excited to announce the selection of Glasgow-based Letitia Pleiades as our 2019 SSW x Counterflows residency artist. Letitia’s practice spans music production, DJing, dance, performance, and teaching and is informed by herbalism, bodywork and organising around accessible healthcare. Often working collaboratively Letitia creates ritual using queer her-story/narrative/intuition, to re-remember, unearth, (re)create and share information and practices. They seek to acknowledge our shared entangled histories, to find where healing can happen, struggles can be collectivised and difference celebrated. Over the next […]

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News / Residencies 3:26 pm , August 28, 2019 Comments Off on Artist announced for 2019 SSW x Counterflows residency
Image: Milica Ilić & Joris Janssens, presentation -Introduction into RESHAPE: Imagining Alternatives (2018)Image: Milica Ilić & Joris Janssens, Introduction into RESHAPE: Imagining Alternatives (2018)

Reshape: a bottom-up research & development project

At the beginning of September SSW Director Sam Trotman will be in Tangier to participate in the second of seven workshops with RESHAPE; a research and development programme, that looks to reimagine and reorganise how the arts operates across a range of European and South Mediterranean contexts. The project kicked off at the RESHAPE forum in Lublin last year. It is supported by a group of 13 intermediary organisations and supports around 40 artists and arts workers to explore and […]

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News 3:45 pm , August 14, 2019 Comments Off on Reshape: a bottom-up research & development project
One person crouches within birch woodland and another stands behind to gently guide their focus with their hands on the crouching person's headDorian Braun, Tender (2018) Scottish Sculpture Workshop. Photo: Erika Stevenson

Announcement: Creative Europe Large Cooperation Project funding

We’re thrilled to announce that Scottish Sculpture Workshop has been awarded funding from Creative Europe, the EU’s cultural and creative funding programme, towards a four-year multidisciplinary Large Cooperation Project with 9 partners across Europe. Led by Santarcangelo Festival (IT) with partners Artsadmin (UK), Vooruit (BE), Kansallisgalleria/ Kiasma (FI), NTIL (LV), Festival de Marseille (FR), City of Women (SI), L’ Art Rue (TN) and Cork Midsummer Festival (IE), BE PART will enable us to seek new approaches and structures for the […]

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News 12:46 pm , August 9, 2019 Comments Off on Announcement: Creative Europe Large Cooperation Project funding
Summer Residency 2019Photo: Cam Biddell

Summer Residents 2019: August

Our second Summer Residency is well underway, beginning with a week of hot sunny days. Artists Claire Baily, Tal Gafny, Chelsea Farquhar and Romy Danielewicz have joined us on site from from Israel, Australia, London and Glasgow, alongside Open Access residents from across the UK. Below is a brief insight into the Summer Residents’ varied practices, and their plans for their forthcoming residency. The second Summer Residency runs from 29 July — 26 August 2019. Tal Gafny Tel Aviv, Israel […]

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Coral Brookes Lumsden Residency 2019

Lumsden Residency: Coral Brookes

Our first Lumsden Residency artist of 2019 is Coral Brookes, an artist whose practice sits across and between artefacts, design objects, construction and cartoon motion. Through her works, she explores tensions between functionality and fictionality, play and productivity and has recently been reflecting on the material construction, town planning and advertising of the 1968 Telford New Town where she grew up. In the reflection below, Coral shares ideas, thoughts, snapshots and outcomes from two workshops with Lumsden Primary School. Coral […]

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News / Residencies 2:40 pm , July 31, 2019 Comments Off on Lumsden Residency: Coral Brookes
A dot of light is caught on the palm of an open handImage: Yvette Bathgate, Summer Residency 2018.

OPEN CALL: SGSAH Researcher in Residence

Deadline for applications: Monday 16 September 2019 The ecological crisis demands more, rather than less, attention to material processes that constitute our world – in ways that build upon but push beyond existing political-economic frames – (Carr, 2016)[1] Makers work in a world that does not stand still – (Ingold 2010)[2] We are much better at admitting that humans infect nature than we are at admitting that non-humanity infects culture, for the latter entails the blasphemous idea that nonhumans—trash, bacteria, […]

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News 4:19 pm , July 10, 2019 Comments Off on OPEN CALL: SGSAH Researcher in Residence
Jacob Hoffman_GAP_degreeshowfilmJacob Hoffman, film still (2019)

Artists announced for Graduate Award Programme 2019

We are delighted to announce the selection of four graduate artists from art schools across Scotland for the 2019 Graduate Award Programme at SSW. In November 2019, we will be joined by Jamie Donald (DJCAD), Tasha Lizak (GSA), Chell Young (ECA) and Jacob Hoffman (Grays). Coming together on residency, the artists have opportunity to make new work, learn skills, build national networks and find approaches and methods for sustaining their practice post-graduation.     Jamie Donald BA (Hons) Art and […]

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News / Residencies 12:31 pm , July 3, 2019 Comments Off on Artists announced for Graduate Award Programme 2019

Summer Residents 2019: July

Welcome to our first Summer Residency group of 2019! Just now everything is erupting into green and it’s light throughout the night from the summer solstice. At this time, we welcome artists from as far as Canada and South Korea, and as local as Crieff, Scotland to our site in Aberdeenshire. Through residency we support the development of diverse practices and interests, fostering conversation and exchange. Here we share an insight into the artists’ practices and plans for residency below. […]

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Into The Mountain traineeships

OPEN CALL: Into The Mountain Traineeships

We are inviting applications for two Into The Mountain Traineeships, delivered in partnership with Mountaineering Scotland and Into The Mountain, an arts and performance project by Simone Kenyon. The traineeship offers a package of training and support to mark out a practical route for women to overcome some of the social and practical barriers facing them in accessing Scotland’s mountainous landscapes. This exciting new collaboration is born out of a commitment to support more women to access the hills and […]

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Into The Mountain / News 4:46 pm , June 11, 2019 Comments Off on OPEN CALL: Into The Mountain Traineeships