About

Cove Park is an international residency based on an outstanding 50-acre rural site in Argyll on Scotland’s west coast. Our programme of residencies, commissions, and collaborative projects respond to and promote the diversity of contemporary artistic practice. We support artists, creative practitioners, and researchers to develop and produce ambitious, innovative, and ground-breaking new work for audiences and participants across Scotland and beyond.

Cove Park’s residencies are unique in the UK. From our launch in 2000, our programme was conceived for local, national, and international artists working individually and in collaboration in all art forms, and at every career stage. We remain the only residency in the UK to bring together at any one time, and consistently throughout the year, up to 14 individuals specialising in a wide range of disciplines. This means we can offer exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary work and cultural exchange.

The view of two rounded structures, pod accommodation, across a pond. It's a bright day with blue skies during Autumn.

The view of Taransay and Oak Pods from the balcony of Arran, Bute, and Cumbrae Cubes.

a misty, dreich view of Loch Long and the hills of the Cowal Peninsula.

Place

We are based on a 50-acre site on Scotland’s west coast, just over one hour northwest of Glasgow on Argyll’s Rosneath Peninsula. The site overlooks Loch Long, a sea loch flowing into the Firth of Clyde and on to the Atlantic. This location connects Cove Park to Argyll’s rich history and natural heritage, its numerous sea lochs, islands, peninsulas, shorelines, and Atlantic rainforests.

People

Cove Park’s team works together to ensure everyone taking part in our programme is given the support they need to have the best possible experience and to achieve their goals. We aim to create a welcoming, hospitable, engaged, and non-hierarchical environment that is safe, open, and inclusive. This ethos underpins our workplace culture and structure.

A wooden and metal suspension bridge, bedded amongst green ferns and shrubs, looking across Cove Park's site to trees in full leaf, a pond, and the hills of Cowal Peninsula.

Our Story

Cove Park was founded in 1999 by Eileen and Peter Jacobs. Acquiring in that year a 50-acre rural site on a breathtaking Argyll hillside, their aim was to create a residency for local, national and international artists, the first in the UK to purposefully bring together through a year-round programme national and international individuals and collaborative groups working in all art forms and at every career stage.

2 people in a canoe on a pond. There is Loch Long and the hills of Cowal Peninsula in the distance.

Contact

How to reach Cove Park and travel to us from local, national and international locations by train, plane, bus, taxi, and car. Learn about our approach to sustainable travel and public transport access provision.

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