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OPEN CALL: LIFE WITH WATER | SSA AT AN TOBAR
The SSA is pleased to be collaborating with An Tobar, Isle of Mull for the first time on a new exhibition with the theme of ‘Life With Water’.
Life With Water: A wave of creativity in response to the Ocean
The sea is not just scenery. It is memory, myth, and movement and the source of all life. It is the pulse beneath our islands, the force that carves our cliffs, the salt in our stories.
On the Hebridean Isle of Mull, where land and water evaporate into one another, we gather to create, to question, to reimagine.
Online Submissions open: Friday 4 April 2025, 12 noon
Online Submissions close: Monday 19 May 2025, 12 noon
OPEN CALL: LIFE WITH WATER
30 X 30 ONLINE EDITION
To accompany our forthcoming exhibition with An Tobar, Isle of Mull, we are inviting the wider SSA Membership (Professional, Artist, Graduate, Student Members) to submit work to our online 30 x 30 exhibition on the same theme – Life With Water : A wave of creativity in response to the Ocean – of which a selection of these works will be available physically in the An Tobar shop.
All works will be presented digitally on a dedicated online gallery throughout the exhibition period, launching on Friday 15 August – 24 October 2025.
Entries open: Friday 18 April 2025
Entries close: Monday 16 June 2025, 12 noon
Online Exhibition: 15 August – 24 October 2025
PROFESSIONAL ARTIST MEMBERS 2025
We are delighted to invite Artist Members to apply to be a Professional Artist Member of the Society of Scottish Artists.
Professional Artist Membership is for Artist Members who are actively practising professionally within one or more branches of the visual arts and is by selection only in recognition of their talent and dedication in this field.
They are elected annually by a Professional Members Selection Committee and have previously been selected to exhibit in at least two SSA curated exhibitions. Professional Members have all the benefits enjoyed by our Artist Members and, in addition, may submit up to four works at the Annual Exhibitions. They are the only members entitled to use the post-nominal SSA after their names.
Image: ©Agnes Eperjesy (elected Professional Member 2024)
SSA ESSAY PROJECT | MARY WALTERS
This month, the SSA Essays Steering Group have chosen to publish ‘The Arctic is Screaming’ by SSA Professional Member, Mary Walters.
Read Mary’s essay at the link below.
The SSA essay programme intends to highlight the creative thinking of our members and to provide a platform for expressing and sharing our opinions on Art, Life and the World.
SSA Members are invited to submit essays for consideration by the SSA Essay Steering Group. This Group will look for essays containing original ideas and pertinent comments on the arts and beyond. You might, for example, like to write about your own art practice, the work of other artists you are familiar with, shows you have seen, or your musings on creative and cultural life.
Image and essay © Mary Walters, 2025.