A unique residency in rural Scotland for national
and international artists, creative practitioners,
researchers, and our local community.
A unique residency in rural Scotland for national
and international artists, creative practitioners,
researchers, and our local community.
Annual Awarded Residencies
A snapshot of this season’s residencies. Visit the Residencies page for information on our Awarded and Open programmes and how to take part.
James Ross is a pianist and composer who pushes the boundaries of Scottish traditional music. James released his debut album on the Greentrax label, a mix of his piano arrangements of traditional and original material. Chasing the Sun, Ross’s second recording, is a seven-movement suite, evoking a day’s and a year’s westward journey along Scotland’s north […]
Jack Lander is an artist and researcher with multimedia practice grounded in technical and synthetic image-making, theatre and game design. Jack is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Glasgow, where his research explores the experience of remote militarised spaces in the Scottish landscape through simulations and extended reality. Working between the virtual and […]
Aqsa Arif is a Scottish-Pakistani interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of film, photography, sculpture, and poetry. Her practice explores themes of syncretic identity, displacement, and cultural dissonance, often grounded in the narrative structures of folklore, mythology, and cinematic language. Navigating these realms through the lens of her own dual identity and lived experience, she […]
Magnus Westwell is a Scottish artist and director working with choreography, composition and performance. Spanning the euphoric and desolate, Westwell’s work seeks to understand and express states of cathartic transformation through embodied sound. Exploring cycles of liminality, transcendence, and absence, Westwell works within ethereal, dream-like worlds, where decaying and generative processes aim to challenge the […]
Luke Pell is a maker, living in Scotland, tending to space. For possibility, for re-remembering, for careful conversation, imagination & emergence. Often a companion in practice to other artists and arts organisations – as dramaturge, facilitator, writer, researcher – they collaborate in projects and processes that attend to alterity, with hope of effecting embodied change […]
Based on a 50-acre site overlooking Loch Long on Scotland’s west coast, Cove Park is embedded in its rural and coastal location. Visit the About page for more on the site, our local community, and our commitment to the conservation of Argyll & Bute's rich natural heritage.
Uncletwis is a young Indonesian artist, whose work is focussed on using low technology and analogue systems characterised by the imagery of a red rambutan. He lives and works in Surabaya, Indonesia, a city that is well-known for its industry, trading history and technology. His work involves the playful modification, deconstruction and re-construction of objects. […]
Laura Aldridge works with a wide range of media and materials – incorporating both craft and sculptural practices – in order to present ideas through different voices and situations. She is interested in the tensions created between works and the dialogue that this produces. She describes her current work as ‘an attempt to draw out […]
The Edinburgh-based artist Juliana Capes returns to Cove Park in March 2022 following the award made to her last year of the Argyll Beacon Artist in Schools commission. Juliana is an award-winning multidisciplinary visual artist who has exhibited most recently at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery, Royal Scottish Academy and Edinburgh Art Festival. Her diverse artworks often […]
Mohamed-Zain Dada is a playwright, researcher and cultural producer. Mohamed-Zain’s directing credits include 2019 Outspoken Prize winning short visual poem, ‘The Moon is a Meme’, and 2020 Outspoken Prize-nominated animation short, ‘Otherstani.’ Mohamed-Zain is a Winston Churchill Fellow after publishing his research on ‘The Future of Community Arts.’ His first theatre credit, ‘Emily (GLITCHED) in Paris’ […]