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 […]
Oren Shoesmith & Rabindranath X Bhose, SSW X Counterflows Residency 2023In 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 […]
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 […]
RSA Residencies for Scotland 2024 artist Jodi Le Bigre at SSW, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw. 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 […]
2025 Ecologies in the Making artist Harriina Räinä, image credit: Felicity CrawshawEcologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency is open to Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts graduates. Applications for the 2026 residency have now closed. 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 project, established by Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of […]
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