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.
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 […]
Kenny Farquharson is a Scottish journalist and photographer. He has been a columnist for The Times since 2015, based in Edinburgh and writing about Scottish politics. Career highs include being embedded with Scottish troops in Afghanistan and reporting on Barack Obama’s presidential election campaign. A veteran of the politics of devolution, he was the first […]
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 […]
Fiona Templeton writes poetry that is mostly for performance, or plays that are poetry. Her work ranges from citywide to intimate scales, with particular attention to matters of the audience, women and orality. She lives in New York, with a foot still in Scotland. Books include You The City, Cells of Release, and The Medead (Roof […]
Hatty Buchanan (b. 1967, London) lives and works between the Midlands and London. She returned to visual art after a career in West End and Broadway theatre production and as an early dotcom entrepreneur. Part of her childhood was spent in Bangladesh, and alongside extensive travel in the 1980s and 1990s these experiences continue to […]
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.
Fiona Soe Paing is a music producer, singer and sound artist based in Aberdeenshire, and of Scottish/Burmese heritage. She has been creating music since 2007, with a continuing underlying theme of language, place, belonging and identity. Her first solo track, sung in Burmese, was included on an international “World Music” compilation album for Warner music. […]
Miranda Bellamy (she/her) and Amanda Fauteux (she/her) are partners and artistic collaborators who extend the stories of wild plants through site-specific research and experimentation. By listening to plants and responding through interdisciplinary projects, they queer the constructs that separate human beings from non-human beings and make space for the critical revision of human histories. Since their […]
Darren Appiagyei is a London-based woodturner. He graduated from University of the Arts London/Camberwell College of Arts in 2016 where he studied 3D Design. His practise embraces the intrinsic beauty of the wood, be it a knot, crack, bark or grain. Darren is an awardee of the Cockpit Arts/Turners Award (2017) through which he received his […]
Bonnie MacRae is an award-winning writer and director with a drive to create work that gives platforms loud, pertinent, socially-fuelled Scottish stories head on. Bonnie is particularly interested in celebrating strong female characters, shining a light on the stories not always shown on screen. Her work has picked up accolades including Best Short Film and […]