Southview creative residency

Aim

Making our art residency as accessible and available as possible. Please consider donating to help create a space for all.

Seatree is a small ceramic art business tucked away on the beautiful Cowal peninsula in South Argyll, Scotland. We make art that combines poetry and pottery in an ongoing attempt to live creatively and sustainably. We love to share our space with others and an opportunity has arisen to establish a creative retreat and workshop space within the woodland, for artists, writers, musicians and craftspeople of all kinds. This will comprise of two small low impact buildings, made deliberately to sit within the woodland as kindly as possible. One will be a workshop space, the other a tiny living space.

Funding for this project is really tight, but we are determined to make our retreat space as available to people who might previously have been excluded from these places as possible. This includes making the studio space accessible for those with mobility challenges, although the access will not yet be wheelchair friendly. This crowdfunding bid is a reach out to artists and art lovers who think like us, and want to include not exclude.

Specifically, this is about the additional costs of making the space available to those of low income or with caring responsibilities or for any reason that may exclude someone from using a residency space. We would like to create bursaried spaces, but will need financial assistance to do this, at least until we are more established. 

We are very aware that many artists and creatives are excluded from making use of spaces like ours because of cost and the complex nature of the way that privilege operates within the art world. It is our intention to make this available to people who are outside this privilege by offering a number of free or low cost opportunities throughout the year.

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 28th February 2027 at 3:44pm