Scottish Sculpture Workshop
Winter Residency 2020
Stony Connections Matter
5 artists where invited for this thematic residency. We lived and worked together on site for four weeks, forming close relationships (with each other, the site, staff team, processes, materials and surrounding landscape) and developing their diverse practices.
The Winter Residency call out focused on the role of making and materiality in a time of climate breakdown. Building on thinking and research from projects, together with knowledge and learning from the workshops, we wanted to give attention to the messy overlaps between the making skills we foster at SSW and the skills needed to “stay with the trouble” (Haraway, D. 2017).
LINK TO RESIDENCY BLOG
http://www.ssw.org.uk/winter-residency-january-2020/
Mixing metal powders with plaster
Exothermic reaction. Water & bronze
Corrode revealing a kingfisher patina.
Used engine oil from my van, usually discarded as a now, useless material. Immaterial is repurposed to blacken steel sculptures using fire.
Oil and plaster via osmosis question ecology, extractive systems and our relationship to water.
The unprecedented instigators in these experiments is the introduction of an element that reacts.
novice alchemical processes create a responsive dialogue between the human and non-human.
This incorporation is non-traditional in technical craft based processes, but can allow a teasing out of alternative meaning and create unexpected beauty, just as water is a slow carver of rock, or how fire melts earth and metal.
