Long-time advocate of SSW, artist Judy Beasley, has been hard at work; already producing prototypes for crockery which will be part of the final Maker’s Meal ensemble. The event is now due to take place on the 1st of September.
Long-time advocate of SSW, artist Judy Beasley, has been hard at work; already producing prototypes for crockery which will be part of the final Maker’s Meal ensemble. The event is now due to take place on the 1st of September.
Over the next week we will be welcoming all the artitsts who will be participating in the USUK Cast Iron Symposium here at SSW. Already with us are Austin Sheppard and Jeff Crawford from the US, as well as our new technical placement Nam Le, who has just joined us after working on the US portion of the symposium at Salem Art Works in NY, USA. Still to come are Kevin Dart, Geoff Hockley, Kelly Ludeking, Susanne Roewer, Kelly Wilton and […]
SSW Welcomes Sculptor and USUK Director Coral Lambert to the workshops this coming Friday for the start of the UK stretch of the USUK International Cast Iron Symposium. Coral Lambert, director of USUK which she founded 15 years ago, is originally from England and is currently the Associate Professor + Chair of Sculpture at Alfred University, New York. Lambert heads up the National Casting Center Foundry. Born in the UK, she studied at Central School of Art, London, Canterbury College […]
Friday 7th – Sunday 22nd July 2012 In just under a month, SSW will be welcoming international artists to participate in the 2012 USUK International Cast Iron Symposium. The 13th USUK International Cast Iron Symposium will take place for the first time across two venues as a dual cross-continental event, at Salem Art Works in Upstate New York, and here at SSW in the UK. The symposium, led by Coral Lambert who instigated USUK back in 1996, will be an […]
Visual Artists Award: Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Council 2012 Congratulations to our Senior Technician Eden Jolly aka Olid Nordhausen for receiving the Visual Artists Award from Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Council! Eden’s work focuses on the transformation in agriculture that occurred during the rise of the industrial revolution. As the influences of the period made their way out to the countryside, the dynamic between the use of farming machinery and manual labor shifted so that local laborers became sidelined as […]
SSW welcomes Jessica Smith, the first artist in residence of 2012 to visit as part of our Emerging Artist series. Jessica Smith is an American ceramic artist from Tuscaloosa, Alabama and creates work that addresses humor and meticulousness through playful recontextualisation of the familiar consumer product, the gummy bear. The pieces she creates are intricate and architectural in nature; structural frameworks made out of a complex of stoneware and porcelain clay gummy bears. Gummy Bears are a candy I coveted as […]
Yesterday we were delighted to have a visit from three of the monks from the Benedictine monastery at Pluscarden Abbey near Elgin. After a traditional meal of mince and tatties prepared by Meryln Riggs and our director Nuno Sacramento, the monks were led around the workshops by our senior technician Eden Jolly who provided an insight to the various mould-making, metal-pouring, metal casting and wax-working processes that our foundry offers. We hope to have them and others from Pluscarden Abbey […]
We are really excited to be participating in COAST Festival 2012 this year!! Ceramics by the Seashore – Paper Kiln Firing Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW) and Gray’s School of Art are coming together for COAST Festival 2012, in the first of a number of collaborative projects over the next year. Artists in Residence and staff at SSW will be working with students and staff from Gray’s School of Art on the grounds of Banff Castle, building and firing a ceramic […]
Art in Granite Scottish Sculpture Workshop presents an art panel presentation and discussion during Aberdeen’s second Granite Festival. Aberdeen’s 2012 Granite Festival is back by popular demand! The new programme had been launched by Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums and Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW) is delighted to take part. On Thursday, 17 May, 6.30-8.30pm, at Cowdry Hall, SSW presents Art in Granite – a panel discussion and presentation about the medium of granite and the artists who work with it. Granite carving was […]
On Thursday 8 March, Graeme Beagrie, Relationship Manager for the Royal Bank of Scotland in Aberdeen, spent a day in the SSW foundry. Graeme spent the day getting to know some of the regional artists and international visitors at the workshops, learning about mould making and the foundry processes. The picture above shows him pulling the crucible out of the furnace, getting ready to pour the molten metal into an artists mould. Graeme did a fantastic job and we hope […]
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