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.
A snapshot of this season’s residencies. Visit the Residencies page for information on our Awarded and Open programmes and how to take part.
We are delighted to announce that the recipient of the 2026 Varuna – Cove Park International Fellowship is Anne-Marie Te Whiu. Anne-Marie Te Whiu (Te Rarawa) is a poet, editor, cultural producer, and weaver based on unceded Gadigal lands in Australia. As an Australian-born-Māori, she is dedicated to platforming the creative output of Indigenous peoples […]
Through a new partnership with deAuteurs, a Belgian authors’ rights management organisation that represents authors of performing arts, audio-visual, literary, and visual works, we are pleased to announce two-week residencies supporting artists developing new work in performance. Céline Timmerman (1990) is a Belgian theatre maker, actress and screenwriter. Her artistic work moves between visual art […]
Through a new partnership with deAuteurs, a Belgian authors’ rights management organisation that represents authors of performing arts, audio-visual, literary, and visual works, we are pleased to announce two-week residencies supporting artists developing new work in performance. Tibau Beirnaert and Laurens Aneca are theatre makers who met while studying drama at KASK in Ghent. Their collaboration […]
David Osbaldeston is a British artist who works across properties of collage, painting and fine print to produce a material outcome best termed collectively as ‘flat sculpture’. His work is often made to interfere with relationships between images and the poetic variables associated with language used to describe them. This is done through a thematic […]
Jo Birch is unfolding and developing as a photographer and videographer. As a psychotherapist, Jo has supported many people to navigate the challenges of life through the therapeutic use of visual imagery. She recently found her own delight in creating images, especially monochrome photography, and storytelling through street photography and film. This residency will strip […]
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.
‘We, the Landscape Research & Residency Project’, is a new programme from Live Performance Bazaar (Prague, Czech Republic). It brings together artists, arts managers, producers, and scientists with the aim of inspiring creativity and innovation to protect and restore nature, and to connect artistic and scientific communities through conversations across Central Europe and beyond. This […]
Building on a partnership which began in 2017, The Work Room and Cove Park are collaborating again in 2019 to bring opportunities for The Work Room members to undertake residencies at Cove Park, for themselves and collaborators from other disciplines. The residencies are intended to bring a new dimension to a creative practice or practices. […]
Finnish artist Jere Vainio is the recipient of the 2024 Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency. Vainio works with familiar materials and seeks to understand them from the perspective of making and unmaking. This approach stems from his experience as a skilled pattern cutter and maker of clothing. He utilises a technical approach to […]
This residency is for a writer of international renown who comes to Cove Park for up to four weeks. During their stay the resident is the guest of honour at events in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and also has time at Cove Park to work on their own projects. During her residency Anne Carson will be […]