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Caregivers Residency artist Morven Mulgrew, image credit: SSW

SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency

SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency is now closed for applications. The deadline for applications was 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, this year we are offering 5 Fully Funded Residencies. The SSW x Counterflows […]

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Residency / Residency Info 12:30 pm , September 11, 2025 Comments Off on SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency

SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency : FAQs

If you have questions that aren’t covered here, or would like to discuss your specific circumstances prior to application, please don’t hesitate to get in touch via jenny@ssw.org.uk or 01464 861372. These questions are available as an audio version via this link. How do you define who is a caregiver? Caregiving can be self-defined by the artist. It could include (but is not limited to), artists with children, artists who support someone with a disability, artists who care for relatives, friends or chosen […]

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Residency Info 6:33 pm , November 10, 2020 Comments Off on SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency : FAQs
Naomi Pearce, Nine Parts Navvy (2018). Photo: SSW

Open call: Summer Residency 2020

We are pleased to invite applications for our 2020 Summer Residency programme, from artists based in the UK and international. Coming together on residency at SSW, artists live and work on site and have daily access to our facilities coupled with support from our team. We aim to foster conditions for conversation, peer exchange and experimental making across a diverse range of processes and practices both those associated with contemporary sculpture and beyond. Our Summer Residency programme is for artists wishing […]

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Yoonjung Kim, Summer Residency 2018Yoonjung Kim, Summer Residency 2018

Open Call: Summer Residency 2019

Deadline for applications: Monday 15 April 2019 at 12 noon.  We are currently inviting applications for our 2019 Summer Residency programme. Coming together on residency at SSW, artists live and work onsite and have daily access to our facilities coupled with support from our technical and curatorial team. We aim to foster conditions for conversation, peer exchange and experimental making across a diverse range of processes and practices both those associated with contemporary sculpture and beyond. Our Summer Residency programme is […]

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News / Residency Info 2:22 pm , April 11, 2019 Comments Off on Open Call: Summer Residency 2019
Splat, Squish, Resist (2018) India Harvey. Photo: Erika Stevenson

Open Call: Lumsden Residency 2019

Deadline for applications: Wednesday 27 February at 12 noon.  Applications are now open for our Lumsden Residency, which looks to support artists with collective learning and making practices. This programme offers artists the opportunity to develop and test out their modes of inquiry through residency at SSW and working with students at Lumsden Primary School. Together with the students, we are welcoming applications that explore the multiple and expanded ways in which we can make, live and learn together. There […]

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News / Residency Info 4:46 pm , February 1, 2019 Comments Off on Open Call: Lumsden Residency 2019

Open Access

Make use of SSW throughout the year with Open Access (O/A). Offered on a ‘Production’ or ‘Research’ basis, with non-residential rates also available, Open Access is here for any artist, maker or individual wishing to develop a project, fabricate work or spend time with their practice. Production O/A can be based within our ceramics studio and metal workshop and supported by a technician who will offer bespoke guidance and training as required to enable you throughout your stay with us. […]

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Facilities / Residency Info 12:17 pm , January 17, 2019 Comments Off on Open Access
Image of Lake Saana by Björn Kröger

North AiR : Expanding Entanglements

North AiR : Expanding Entanglements is a residency and research cooperation spanning six residency/ arts organisations in Scotland and Finland. Each partner fosters long term enquiries into its role and response-ability within the ecological crisis and together we look towards a post-fossil culture with a trans disciplinary approach. As a key part of this research cooperation we pool our resources and networks to think beyond dominant artist exchange models and look to question the role of artists’ residency in a […]

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Residency Info 1:12 pm , November 14, 2018 Comments Off on North AiR : Expanding Entanglements
Winter Residency

Open call: Winter Residency Programme 2019

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Application Deadline: 12 noon, Tuesday 13 November 2018. Dates: Residency 1: 14 January – 11 February 2019 Residency 2: 18 February – 18 March 2019 Cost: £560 per 4 week residency. Residencies are highly subsidised and include accommodation, studio space, access to facilities, technical and curatorial support from the SSW team. Materials are not included. The 2019 Winter Residency programme marks the beginning of a significant year for SSW as we observe 40 years of hosting and […]

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News / Residency Info 5:37 pm , October 7, 2018 Comments Off on Open call: Winter Residency Programme 2019
SSW x CounterflowsSholto Dobie carries out research in Rhynie Chert Quarry

SSW x Counterflows

The deadline for the SSW x Counterflows residency has now passed. Scottish Sculpture Workshop and Counterflows are inviting applications for the second SSW x Counterflows residency programme. Building on a successful pilot programme throughout 2018, we are now opening up applications to artists who break disciplinary boundaries between visual arts, performance and sound and whose practice foregrounds an interdisciplinary, experimental and improvised approach. We are particularly interested in supporting artists who are at a pivotal moment of transition in their […]

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Residency Info 1:34 pm , October 3, 2018 Comments Off on SSW x Counterflows
Naomi Pearce, Nine Parts Navvy (2018). Photo: SSW

Summer Residency Programme

The deadline for Summer Residency in 2020 has now passed.  Coming together on residency at SSW, artists live and work onsite and have daily access to our facilities coupled with support from our technical and curatorial team. We aim to foster conditions for conversation, peer exchange and experimental making across a diverse range of processes and practices both those associated with contemporary sculpture and beyond. Our Summer Residency programme is for artists wishing to spend a month working on the […]

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Residency Info 6:52 pm , January 16, 2018 Comments Off on Summer Residency Programme