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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
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 | ELLIE BALK
From time to time we invite guest contributions to the SSA Essay Project from artists whose work we hope will be of particular interest to our membership. To mark Pi Day on 14 March (3/14) and celebrate the infinite possibilities of this intriguing number, we invited Ellie Balk, a Brooklyn-based public artist, to introduce us to her long-term project, ‘Visualizing Pi’.
Ellie Balk has an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute, NYC and works both nationally and internationally. Her public art can be experienced throughout New York City and St. Louis, Missouri, as well as in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Mae Rim, Thailand; Northern Senegal and Marrakech, Morocco.
Read Ellie Balk’s essay at the link below.
Image and essay © Ellie Balk, 2025.