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*THIS OPPORTUNITY DEADLINE IS NOW PAST 2017 Emerging Artist Group Residency (4 places available) Dates of residency:  3rd April – 1st May 2017 Cost: £370 per month Application deadline: 5pm 27th of February The Group EA Residency in April is specifically for BA graduate students who graduated in 2016. (Please note, there are also a limited number of individual EA Residencies available during the months of the SSW AiR programme. More info on these are available on the SSW website) ____________________________________________________ For more information and details […]

Storytelling Lumsden is a project that aims to gather, share and map the stories of the residents of Lumsden. The project is now in it third and final stage, and SSW are working with our Artists in Residence to provide a series of workshops based on craft in order to collect some direct stories and record them digitally. These workshops will help to capture the oral tradition of storytelling at the same time as illustrating them through visual arts. This project […]

SSW were delighted to be part of the ‘Out of the Earth’ – Streaming Turf to Tools event by Dot.rural Digital Economy Hub as part of the ‘Being Human’ festival at Aberdeen University. The event was a viewing of the From Turf to Tools project facilitated, which took place in August of this year in Lumsden. From Turf to Tools is an ongoing enquiry that looks to our natural resources, material and landscape. During August 2014, this enquiry led to the recreation […]

On Friday and Saturday SSW opened up to the public in OUTING. We had presentations from a range of practitioners looking at the many facets of the From Turf to Tools project, as well as a public demonstration of the smelting process. We have a huge Thank You to extend to the project participants, in particular the amazing Darrell Markewitz and his wife Kelly, and SSW technician. We must also thank our volunteers James McCarthy, Thomas Stackhouse and Uist Corrigan, […]

Darrell Markewitz is a master blacksmith, hailing from Wareham Forge, Ontario. He has joined SSW for the Slow Prototype From Turf to Tools (which has an open forum this weekend, schedule available here eepurl.com/08VOb). This is an exploration of the bloomery iron process – an ancient method of metal production, knowledge of which has been largely lost over the last millenia. Darrell, you and SSW technican are both collaborating for an SSW Slow Prototype, how did this come about? We […]