Kids Club with their banner in Lumsden Park, image: SSWWhat a Spring and Summer we have had in Lumsden! Blue skies, long days, short nights and much outdoor fun. We kicked off our Spring Community Making Space programme with a wide range of Thursday Making Sessions. Through these we developed our Materials Garden – building up the nitrogen in the soil (with thanks to the local horses), clearing scrub areas of the site, deciding what to grow and germinating seeds. We also learnt from artist Claire Rayner how to […]
SSW Materials Garden, image credit: SSWThis year, as part of the completion of Phase 1 of our Capital work at SSW we started to slowly cultivate a Materials Garden. The Materials Garden is currently formed of a number of raised beds and recently cleared borders that now contain plants for natural dyeing and various willow and small tree varieties for future use in creating armatures, ash glazes and green wood working. These plants are joined by a wide range of pollinators that add to the bio-diversity […]
Photo by Sam TrotmanThe Community Making Space at SSW is a hub for our local community to learn and share skills in all forms of making. We work with local materials and the skills of people in the area, as well as with contemporary artists based locally, nationally and internationally – creating connections and change through making. Each seasonal programme is developed with our Community Advisors and is informed by the ideas and wants of local residents. The current Autumn Programme 2025 can be […]
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