We are delighted to announce Ali Farrelly, Dani Andres Ordoñez Muñoz, Kim West, Ruby Reding and Stefan Jovanović Kaasa as our second group of artists selected for Group Residency 2025.
The SSW team are excited to be supporting the artists to develop their practices over the course of their month-long residency. Alongside inductions and support in ceramics, metalwork, blacksmithing and stonework, Group Residency includes a collective programme of walks, sauna, film nights, potluck meals, artist sharings and peer learning.
Below we share more information about the artists on Group Residency this August and September:
Ali Farrelly is an Irish artist in Glasgow making metal kinetic sculptures. She holds an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art, a BA from NCAD, and also studied performance art in Poznań. Her practice has been shaped by residencies in Serbia, Poland and Dublin, as well as recent studies in Welding and Metal Fabrication. Ali has exhibited in Dublin, Tipperary, Belfast, Poznań, Venice, Barcelona, and Belgrade. Since relocating to Glasgow, she has taken part in various exhibitions at Florence Street School and has presented two solo shows: Exhibition at The New Glasgow Society and A Mean Diameter at Boardroom Committee Room.
Dani Andres Ordoñez Muñoz is a Colombian-born, London-raised visual artist and metal technician based in the Netherlands. Specialising in bronze and aluminium casting, Dani combines technical skill with experimental approaches, exploring foundry culture, (de)colonial histories, and sustainable practices. His collaborative, sculptural work bridges craftsmanship, heritage, and cultural research.
Kim is a ceramicist and researcher based in Barcelona, currently pursuing a PhD in urban environmental justice after over a decade in the medico-humanitarian sector. Her practice explores clay as a tool for storytelling, community building, and emancipatory research, with a focus on migration, memory, and care. She creates large-scale sculptures grounded in emotion and materiality, and is committed to arts-based work that centres justice, inclusivity, and collective imagination.
Ruby is an artist from the UK based in Rotterdam, working with moving image, poetry and sculpture. She creates counter atmospheres at the intersections of infrastructure, intimacy and colonial/scientific apparatus. Exploring what distance and proximity feels like, her works tend to the affects, rhythms and circulation of our resources. She recently completed an MFA at Piet Zwart Institute.
Stefan Jovanović Kaasa is an artist and somatic traumatologist whose work bridges performance, sculpture, and healing to explore trauma, myth, and transformation. Born in the former Yugoslavia and now based in London, they weave personal and transgenerational histories of displacement into affective resonant worlds. Their new solo performance When the Clarion Came to Call premieres in 2025.
The Group Residency artists are joined by Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures artist Harriina Räinä and RSA Residencies for Scotland artist Jodi de Bigre.
