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View from the Buck, near Lumsden in February 2019.

We are hiring: Programme and Communications Fellow

Applications for this role are now closed. Salary: £21,000, 1 year fixed-term Based on site at SSW in Lumsden, Aberdeenshire (relocation support available) Scottish Sculpture Workshop is looking for a Programme and Communications Fellow to work closely with the team, artists, project partners and our local community in Lumsden. This one year, fixed-term role is one of fifty placements across the UK supported by the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries (WJCB). The programme aims to make the arts a fairer and more […]

Photo: Felicity Crawshaw

Ceramics: Clay shop

To support you to practice at home, our Clay Shop offers a limited selection of clay to purchase. Our Clay Shop is open Tuesdays, 11am – 1pm. The clay shop usually stocks: Black Smooth Clay (PF680) £26.07Black Textured Clay (PF670) £22.61Gelb French Stoneware Clay £18.16KBJ Clay £18.43MJ Originale £16.69Raku Clay £12.41Speckled Stoneware (ES109) £14.20Stoneware V9A Clay £9.13White Stoneware (PF560) £15.69White Stoneware Grogged £15.32 One bag = 12.5 kgPurchase is dependent on stock levelsPayment by card on point of sale. All […]

The image is largely cast in shadow, with a dramatic beam of light cutting diagonally across it. The light falls on 2 MDF throwing batts, next to each other on a shelf above a long, white radiator. The batts have some clay vessels on them which vary in form and are a light, sandy grey in colour.Photo(detail): Maija Annikki Savolainen

Ceramics: Firing service

We offer a firing-only service with regular bisque and glaze firings in our kilns available to book online. Firings are completed by our skilled ceramics technician, Amy Benzie.

Ceramics: 1:1

Glaze tests in the ceramics workshop at SSW. Photo: Felicity Crawshaw

Ceramics: Established Practice

Established Practice offers regular independent access to SSW’s ceramics workshop on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. It is aimed at artists, makers and ceramicists with existing skills and experience working in ceramics, who are starting to develop a serious practice and want to further hone their skills and ideas. Established Practice subscribers receive:  Further information:If you have any suggestions, questions or requirements relating to accessibility at SSW, please get in touch and we will make every effort to support you to […]

Image of a busy Ceramics Workshop at the end of the SSW x Counterflows Caregivers residency 2023. Photo by Sam Trotman

Ceramics Subscription

We are glad to open up our recently renovated Ceramics Studio to new users through a Ceramics Subscription. This new offer builds on and replaces our previous Regular & Established practice offer that operated in 2022-23. Ceramics Subscription provides 8 x 3 hour sessions to the studio per month* on a Thursday and Friday through a no questions asked, sliding pay scale set up to ensure that the space is accessible to more people from a wide range of economic […]

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Photo by Felicity Crawshaw

Ceramics

We have opened up our Ceramics Subscription, find out more. Our experimental ceramics workshop offers you space, specialist teaching and equipment to support the development of your skills and ceramics practice. From building and forming, through to firing and glazing, the ceramics workshop welcomes complete beginners through to those with an established practice, with the support of our part-time Ceramics Technician. The studio is bright and open, equipped with two electric kilns, three electric wheels, wheel mounted extruder and slab […]

sketch for multi-headed puppet for several performers (2016), Gordon Douglas.

DIY 17: 2020 — That’s Governance!

That’s Governance! with artist Gordon Douglas invites participants to work together and propose a non-human candidate to hold a position on Scottish Sculpture Workshop’s Board of Trustees. Applying games and exercises in deep listening and roleplay with puppets, the workshop will encourage a playful response and challenge to the perceivably immovable conditions of governing. What can we achieve by heightening our grasp of organisational advice from non-human actors, and what can we complicate by attributing social purpose to phenomena as […]

Edge Effects Library, Edge Effects: Glasgow (2017). Photo: Ross Fraser McLean / Studio RoRo

Edge Effects Library

The Edge Effects library was first presented at Edge Effects: Glasgow, before travelling to SSW for Edge Effects: Lumsden. It’s now in permanent residence in our communities room for everyone at SSW. The library is made up of a series of reading lists selected by artists and organisations involved in the Edge Effects: Glasgow programme. These include: Brett Bloom and Ximena AlarconMele Broomes
Taru ElfvingHIAP (Helsinki International Artist Programme)Interfaces for EmpathyMari Keski-Korsu
Peter McMaster
Richard Skelton
Scottish Sculpture Workshop You can download a PDF of the Reading […]