Category : Residency

Caregivers Residency artist Morven Mulgrew, image credit: SSW

SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency

SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency is now open for applications. Please apply through this online form: SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency application formThe deadline for applications is Wednesday 15th October 2025 at midday. The SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency is 5! 2025 marks the 5th year of our collaboration to offer vital residency opportunities to Scotland based artists who are also caregivers. To celebrate this important milestone, and with the generous support of the William Grant Foundation and Creative Scotland, […]

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Caregivers Residency Blog: Keng Keng Tang

For four weeks across 2023 and 2024 Keng Keng Tang completed their SSW X Counterflows Residency. The residency offered artists time, space, funding and support to develop artists practices alongside their caregiving responsibilities. Keng Keng Tang shares their journey through the residency and how it fostered a sense of renewal. All words and images by Keng Keng Tang. I am a mother, a milliner & textile artist, and a community arts activist. Over the past few years my artistic practice […]

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News / Residency 4:07 pm , May 7, 2024 Comments Off

Photo by Felicity Crawshaw

Residencies in Clay Artist Blog: Josie ko

For 4 weeks across November and December Josie KO took part in Residencies in Clay, which supported artists exploring the transformational potential of clay within society and contemporary arts practice. The residency culminated in Building the Clay Commons with Eva Masterman, which brought together local community members, makers and artists from the North East and beyond. Josie reflects on her developing relationship with clay and her thought processes while on residency at SSW. All words by Josie ko. I’ve never […]

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Artists / Ceramics / News / Residencies / Residency 1:40 pm , March 26, 2024 Comments Off

Selected artists for Residencies in Clay

Image credit: 33 Seeds, Mina Heydari-Waite Our inaugural Residencies in Clay programme is taking place throughout November and we look forward to supporting Mina Heydari-Waite, Josie KO and Nic Green through this residency programme. During their time at SSW Josie, Nic and Mina will be taking time to grow their practices and material knowledge by testing processes, sharing skills and pushing the possibilities of clay. Nic Green says, I am really delighted to be headed to SSW. For a while […]

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News / Residencies / Residency 5:13 pm , October 25, 2023 Comments Off

Oren Shoesmith & Rabindranath X Bhose, SSW X Counterflows Residency 2023

Caregivers residency blog: A joyful, furious spinning in the dark by Oren Shoesmith & Rabindranath X Bhose

In February and March 2023 Oren Shoesmith & Rabindranath X Bhose completed their SSW X Counterflows Residency supported by Creative Scotland’s Radical Care project. The residency offered artists time, space, funding and support to develop artists practices alongside their caregiving responsibilities. Rabi and Oren take us on a beautiful journey through their winter residency. We applied to this residency together as partners, with a reciprocal caring relationship. In this relationship, the categories of care-giver and care-receiver flow and dissolve between us. We […]

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News / Residency 10:07 am , June 20, 2023 Comments Off

Ecologies in the Making Artist Announcement: Santtu Laine

The Helsinki-based artist Santtu Laine was awarded the 2023 Ecologies in the Making residency. This residency is the second in a four year programme developed by the Academy of Fine Arts Uniarts Helsinki, Cove Park and Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW). The residencies are designed to focus upon making practices at a time of climate breakdown and are aimed at MFA alumni of the Academy of Fine Arts, particularly those with sculptural methods or material processes. The programme supports research and the development […]

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News / Residencies / Residency 11:01 am , January 24, 2023 Comments Off

A person angle grinding in SSW's metal workshop. She is wearing a dark blue boilersuit and PPE. Sparks are flying from the grinder and metal.

RSA Residencies for Scotland 2024 artist Jodi le Bigre at SSW, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw.

RSA Residencies for Scotland 2026 is open for applications

Deadline for applications: Sunday 18 January 2026, 5pmApply on The RSA website. SSW is delighted to be participating in the RSA Residencies for Scotland programme to offer one artist a 1-2 month(s)-long funded residency in 2026. RSA Residencies for Scotland is an artist-led scheme which provides valuable research and development opportunities for visual artists. It forges important networks with centres of artistic excellence across Scotland, ranging from traditional residency venues to specialised production facilities. Open to artists at all stages […]

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Residencies / Residency 3:44 pm , December 17, 2021 Comments Off

2025 Ecologies in the Making artist Harriina Räinä, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw

Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency is open for applications

Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency is open to Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts graduates. Deadline for applications 30 September 2025 at 24:00 Finnish time (GMT+2)Apply on the Uni Arts Helsinki website We are excited to announce that the call for applications from recent graduates of Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of the Fine Arts to the Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures programme is now live! This four-month residency is offered jointly by Cove Park and Scottish Sculpture Workshop is part of the International Incubators in Fine Arts […]

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Residencies / Residency 3:04 pm , December 17, 2021 Comments Off

Scottish Charity Number: SC003223