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A person angle grinding in SSW's metal workshop. She is wearing a dark blue boilersuit and PPE. Sparks are flying from the grinder and metal.RSA Residencies for Scotland 2024 artist Jodi le Bigre at SSW, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw.

Open Call: RSA Residencies for Scotland

SSW is delighted to be participating in the RSA Residencies for Scotland programme to offer one artist a 1-2 month(s)-long funded residency in 2026. RSA Residencies for Scotland is an artist-led scheme which provides valuable research and development opportunities for visual artists. It forges important networks with centres of artistic excellence across Scotland, ranging from traditional residency venues to specialised production facilities. Open to artists at all stages of their careers and free to apply, the emphasis is on enabling […]

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News 1:33 pm , September 24, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: RSA Residencies for Scotland
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
Caregivers Residency artist Morven Mulgrew, image credit: SSW

SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency

SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency is now open for applications. Please apply through this online form: SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency application formThe deadline for applications is 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, […]

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Residency / Residency Info 12:30 pm , September 11, 2025 Comments Off on SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency
Group Residents, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw

Group Residency 2025 Aug & Sep: Artist Announcment

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 […]

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News 4:28 pm , September 5, 2025 Comments Off on Group Residency 2025 Aug & Sep: Artist Announcment
2025 Ecologies in the Making artist Harriina Räinä, image credit: Felicity Crawshaw

Open Call: Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures

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 Foundation. The project aims to build a dialogue between […]

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News 4:27 pm , September 5, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures
Group Residency artists in the ceramics workshop with SSW technician Amy Benzie

2025 Group Residency 1: In Pictures

It was fantastic to welcome artists Alaya Ang (Scotland), Holly Bobisuthi (USA), Jonny Walker (Scotland) and Kishita Nayyar (England) to SSW in May, to take part in the first Group Residency of 2025.  The Group Residency artists were also joined by RSA Residencies for Scotland artist Jodi de Bigre and Open Access Residency artists Marianne Mulvey and Dinda Fass. Over the course of their month-long residency, the group had inductions and support in ceramics, metalwork, blacksmithing and stonework. Alongside developing […]

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News 4:16 pm , August 7, 2025 Comments Off on 2025 Group Residency 1: In Pictures
Work in progress, image credit: Eva Sajovic

Residency Blog: Eva Sajovic

Below artist Eva Sajovic reflects on her two week Open Access (O/A) Residency at SSW. O/A Residencies are available throughout the year, for artists, makers or individuals wishing to develop a project, fabricate work or spend time with their practice. Words and Images by Eva Sajovic — My two-week residency at Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW), supported by a Developing Your Creative Practive (DYCP) grant from Arts Council England, offered a welcome shift from the urgency of London into a slower, […]

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News 3:55 pm , June 27, 2025 Comments Off on Residency Blog: Eva Sajovic
Morven and the wood kiln, image credit: SSW

Caregivers Residency Blog: Morven Mulgrew

Below Morven Mulgrew, one of the 2024 SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency artists reflects on her time here. This residency was set up in 2020 to expand funded residency opportunities to artists who are also caregivers. The 2025 call out will be launching soon. Words by Morven Mulgrew, images by Morven Mulgrew and SSW — PART ONE:  MY CANDIDACY FOR SUITABILITY FOR THE DESIGNATED ROLE OF CARE-GIVER The application for the residency said I wanted to explore the politics of […]

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News 3:46 pm , June 27, 2025 Comments Off on Caregivers Residency Blog: Morven Mulgrew
An artist in blue overalls and yellow gloves and face protection is plasma cutting in the SSW metal workshop.Plasma cutting in the SSW metal workshop, image credit: SSW

Open Call: Scotland’s Workshops Award

SSW is part of Scotland’s Workshops, a network of 10 visual arts production facilities across the country and together we’re excited to share the Scotland’s Workshops Award. This award provides a Scotland based, emerging artist* with time, support and financial means to experiment and gain new skills through spending time at 2 of the 10 visual art production facilities across Scotland that make up Scotland’s Workshops.  The selected artist will receive a bursary of: £2500 artists bursary£1500 production bursary to cover tuition, […]

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Artists / News / Opportunities 7:17 pm , June 12, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: Scotland’s Workshops Award
Image credit: Juliana Capes

Caregivers Residency Blog: Juliana Capes

Below Juliana Capes, one of the 2024 SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency artists reflects on her time here. This residency was set up in 2020 to expand funded residency opportunities to artists who are also caregivers. Words and Images by Juliana Capes — In early 2025, I took part in the Caregivers Residency at Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW)—a programme designed to support artists with caring responsibilities. Set in the rural village of Lumsden, surrounded by the foothills of Aberdeenshire, SSW […]

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News 5:16 pm , May 29, 2025 Comments Off on Caregivers Residency Blog: Juliana Capes