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Open Call: SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency 2026

2026 is the 6th year of the SSW and Counterflows collaboration, offering vital residency opportunities to Scotland based artists who are also caregivers. We are delighted to offer 4 Fully Funded Residencies in 2026, thanks to generous support of the William Grant Foundation and Creative Scotland. The SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency offers: This residency recognises that the care of others is central to the collective survival of our world yet is deeply undervalued within our society. This is often […]

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Artists / News / Residencies / Residency / Residency 5:57 pm , April 30, 2026 Comments Off on Open Call: SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency 2026

SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency

Deadline for applications: Friday 12 June 2026, 12 middayApply using this online application form.  2026 is the 6th year of the SSW and Counterflows collaboration, offering vital residency opportunities to Scotland based artists who are also caregivers. We are delighted to offer 4 Fully Funded Residencies in 2026, thanks to generous support of the William Grant Foundation and Creative Scotland. The SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency offers: This residency recognises that the care of others is central to the collective […]

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Residency / Residency Info 5:08 pm , April 30, 2026 Comments Off on SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency
SSW metal workshop, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw

Open Call: Group Residency 2026

Applications to Group Residency 2026 are now closed. SSW is delighted to invite applications for Group Residency 2026! Find out more and apply here: Group Residency 2026 Group Residency is a special time at SSW. It offers artists dedicated space and support for the development of their practice, through a series of inductions and intros to our facilities including ceramics, metal fabrication, blacksmithing and stonework. This is coupled with social spaces to support artists coming together for sauna, artists sharings, […]

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News 6:22 pm , November 28, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: Group Residency 2026
SSW metal workshop, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw

Group Residency 2026

Applications for Group Residency 2026 are now closed. The deadline to apply was Friday 23 January 2026, 12 midday GMT. Group Residency at SSW is a highly subsidised residency that focuses on bringing together artists from a wide variety of disciplines to develop their own practices within our welcoming workshops and studio. Over the month we programme a series of inductions and intros to our facilities including ceramics, metal fabrication, blacksmithing and stonework, coupled with social spaces including sauna, artists […]

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Residency 5:13 pm , November 28, 2025 Comments Off on Group Residency 2026

Open Call: Do It Together 2026 call for proposals

SSW is excited to be partnering again with Live Art Development Agency (LADA) and also this year with the wonderful Take Me Somewhere on Do It Together (DIT), a peer-to-peer professional development programme that enables artists to explore ideas, aesthetics and socio-political realities together.  SSW alongside LADA and Take Me Somewhere are now calling out for proposals from Live Art practitioners to think about Material Agency and how they are working together with landscape, objects and materials and how they can share this with others.  […]

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News 2:09 pm , October 31, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: Do It Together 2026 call for proposals
Image credit: Felicity Crawshaw

Open Call: Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) Artist Residency

SSW is delighted to partner with Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) to host a PhD researcher to spend up to three months on residency at SSW exploring Regenerative Materials and Community Knowledge within Arts Practice. We are continuing to develop our work in this area and are seeking to support a PhD residency for an artist/researcher to collaborate with SSW and our local community through the Community Making Space Programme, exploring the potentials of working with locally […]

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News 2:38 pm , October 28, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) Artist Residency
Caregivers Residency artist Morven Mulgrew, image credit: SSW

Open Call: SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency

The SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency is 5!  2025 marks the 5th year of the collaboration between SSW and Counterflows Festival offering 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 Caregivers Residency offers: This residency recognises that the care of others is central to the collective survival […]

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News 5:33 pm , September 11, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency
2025 Ecologies in the Making artist Harriina Räinä, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw

Open Call: Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures

The deadline for applications has now closed. Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency is open to Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts graduates. 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 Fine Arts and the Saastamoinen […]

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News 4:27 pm , September 5, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures