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ESW Schools Programme

Take a look at some of the work made by the Primary 5s from Victoria Primary School at the end of 2020.

Ice figures interlinked over window with sea and sky blurred in the background

ESW/ECA Graduate Residents 2021

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop is excited to announce that the artists selected to be our 2021 Graduate Residents are Nick Jüsi, Cal McCormack, Victoria Smith and Ella Wragg.

Handwritten notes on a sheet of white paper, written to capture a discussion. Excerpts include Food, insulting, being seen, come dine, critical awareness, emotion, gender, recognise, social media, transgenerational, why is food created, colorist, emocentric, black mothers always, pasta

Ceramic Sculpture Bursary Cohort

Donata Kiaunytė, Khadea Kuchenmeister and Paul McAuley selected for our new programme, led by Charlotte Barker.

Street level view of the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop building; Apartment lights are on; sun is setting

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop – Temporary Closure

ESW is adapting to the current guidance and statistics in relation to COVID-19. We are currently closed to the public and Workshop access is also paused.

Artist Paul McAuley in a workshop holds up a bronze cast head that has remnants of sand, a smaller bronze head sits on the table in the foreground

AGM and Activity during Summer and Autumn 2020

See info about our recent AGM and images celebrating activity within ESW communities.

Black and white video still of a performance where the artist falls to the ground several times, with repeated mosaics displaying the falls sequenced differently

ESW Welcomes New Board Members

Irineu Destourelles, Giulia Gentili and Sekai Machache join the organisation as voluntary trustees in November 2020.

Detail image of scientific glass apparatus with water level in purple lighting against a blurred background

Emma Hislop: Graduate Research Award

Following her selection at New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy Emma Hislop will be in residence at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop for the next three months. Emma will be working on new work and establishing herself in her new home city of Edinburgh

Four tiny light blue animals, a large orange cat, a blue and white smiling animal and a tall blue animal made out of toilet roll, pigments and PVA sit on top of a plywood stand. There is a face painted on the wall in the background

WIP

With our schools outdoor learning programme starting this week this is a chance to look back at the work done by last year’s cohort. WIP highlights the projects and work made by the Primary 5s of Trinity and Victoria Primary, Class of 2020 on our schools programme.