ESW/ECA Graduate Awards 2025

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop is excited to announce the selected artists for the ESSW/ECA Awards 2025: Carys Reynolds, Esther Castle, Niamh Finnigan, and Sophie Hall. These four talented artists will spend three months at ESW creating new work and benefiting from the extensive resources available.

Member’s Opportunity: Call for Proposals for the Hawthornvale Mentorship Programme

ESW is welcoming proposals from our members for new work for the Hawthornvale Mentorship Programme 2025 which includes the opportunity to exhibit in the Hawthornvale Space.
Deadline 5pm, Sunday, 10 November 2024. 

Relief carving in the sunshine in relation to Alejandro Lopez's relief carving course.

Book Now for Autumn Courses 2024

Learn a new skill this autumn, with two courses starting in October: Coil Building in Ceramics and Wood Relief Carving.

People working in the bays of the courtyard for a wood carving course.

Call for Board Members 2024

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (ESW) is seeking passionate individuals to join our board. Deadline for notes of interest Monday 30 September 2024, 5pm.

Émilie Allard, Darling Newhaven Resident 2024

Fonderie Darling and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop are excited to announce that the artists selected to be the 2024 Darling x Newhaven residents, are Émilie Allard, representing Quebec and Kirsty Russell, representing Scotland.

Sculpture Saturday Review 2024

Sculpture Saturday Toy Altar Review

Jan Pimblett: Hybrids

12 July – 6 October 2024
Hawthornvale Space
Viewable 7 am – 7 pm Daily from the street.

A tiled mural by EtchingRoom1 which shows a swimmer or diver against a backdrop of volcanoes, crashes, and shark attacks.

EtchingRoom1: What A Wonderful Day In A Wonderful World

1 March 2024 – 1 March 2025
Beacon Tower
Viewable from the path next to ESW.

Everything Is Satisfactual: Sequoia Danielle Barnes

Opening Event 10 August 2024 6 – 8pm
(quiet opening 5 – 6pm)
Exhibition 9 August – 1 September 2024
Wednesday – Sunday 11am – 5pm

Molly Mae Whawell: REACH Scotland Resident

Our final REACH Scotland Resident of 2024 is Molly Mae Whawell who will be in residence for 4 weeks across July and August.

Outside view with two people tending a flaming furnace wearing protective equipment. One figure is pouring oil into the mechanism.

Melbury Meltdown, Coles Casting, Dorset,  July 2024

Technician Stephen Murray’s report from a investigations into alternative furnace fuels on a trip to Dorset.

Sculpture Saturdays Family Drop-in Workshops every Saturday in August

Book now for Sculpture Saturdays our drop-in family workshops every Saturday in August from 11am – 3pm.