Wish you were here!

To mark Cove Park’s 20th anniversary in 2020, we have produced limited edition sets of 20 individual postcards including wonderful images of our 50-acre site overlooking Loch Long, the Pods and Cubes, studios and the award-winning Artists Centre (the Jacobs Building, designed in 2016 by CameronWebster Architects).

Each set features photography by Ruth Clark, Alan Dimmick and Martin Gibb and design by graphic designer Maeve Redmond (a former resident and now Cove Park’s Craft & Design Programme Producer). All proceeds raised from the sale of the sets of postcards will support our international residency programme. 100 sets of an edition of 170 are available for sale.

The total price of £15.00 per set includes the cost of post and packaging within the UK.* Payment can be made via PayPal or by cheque to Cove Park Ltd. (please post to Cove Park, Peaton Hill, Cove, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, G84 0PE). To reserve sets of postcards, confirm international posting costs if required, or to send sets as gifts to addresses other than your own, please contact Alexia Holt directly.

Thank you.

*The first sets of postcards will be posted the week beginning 3rd August, and fortnightly after then.

The screenprint Baked Alaska draws upon research material for SaF05. It features an analytical diagram of a 6^th Century BC Assyrian stone relief panel, in the process of being cut and collaged by Prodger. In palace reliefs of this period the distinction between foreground and background appears collapsed and flattened, counter to linear perspective’s illusionary depth. These spatial systems echo Prodger’s ongoing preoccupation with perspective, framing and time in relation to bodies and landscape. The title of the work is pulled from autobiographical content in Prodger’s voiceover for SaF05.

The technical sophistication of this screenprint reflects the artist’s concern for materiality and the process of production. It complements a new series of 11 C-type prints by the artist that explore further the visual material encountered while researching for SaF05.

Charlotte Prodger has kindly donated this work and all funds raised from the sale of the edition will go towards the development of Cove Park’s international residency programme.

15 Colour Screenprint on Somerset Satin 300gsm.
Edition of 50
47.5 cm x 63cm (paper size)

The first 25 editions will sell at the launch price of £500 (unframed). Thereafter, the price of each edition will rise to £600 (unframed, plus VAT). Please contact Alexia Holt for further information. An information sheet on this edition is available here.

About the Artist

Charlotte Prodger was born in Bournemouth, UK in 1974. She studied at Goldsmiths, London and The Glasgow School of Art and lives and works in Glasgow.

Selected solo exhibitions include: BRIDGIT/Stoneymollan Trail, Bergen Kunsthall; Subtotal, SculptureCenter, New York (2017); BRIDGIT, Hollybush Gardens, London; Charlotte Prodger, Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2016); 8004–8019, Spike Island, Bristol; Stoneymollan Trail, Temple Bar, Dublin (2015); Nephatiti, Glasgow International Director’s Programme; Markets (with The Block), Chelsea Space, London (2014); Percussion Biface 1-13, Studio Voltaire, London; Colon Hyphen Asterix, Intermedia CCA, Glasgow (2012); Handclap/Punchhole, Kendall Koppe, Glasgow (2011).

Selected group exhibitions include: Always Different, Always the Same: An Essay on Art and Systems, Bunder Kunstmuseum, Chur; ORGASMIC STREAMING ORGANIC GARDENING ELECTROCULTURE, Chelsea Space, London (2018); British Art Show 8 (2016); Weight of Data, Tate Britain, London; An Interior that Remains an Exterior, Künstlerhaus Graz (2015); Frozen Lakes, Artists Space, New York (2014).

Prodger was awarded a Cove Park Emerging Artist residency in 2010, supported by The Craignish Trust. Her second Cove Park residency took place in 2018. She received the 2014 Margaret Tait Award and a Paul Hamlyn Award in 2017. She was awarded the Turner Prize in 2018.

Charlotte Prodger and Cove Park would like to thank Ruth Clark, Simon Harlow and Glasgow Print Studio, in particular Scott Campbell, Claire Forsyth and Murray Robertson.

In 2006 seven of the UK’s leading visual artists were commissioned by Cove Park to produce a new limited edition print. This work is available for sale individually or collectively in a high-quality presentation portfolio. Investing in the first Cove Park Portfolio is both an opportunity to acquire works by key contemporary artists and to support Cove Park’s internationally renowned residency programme. The proceeds from all sales goes directly to towards the development of new residency programmes.

The works in the portfolio use Cove Park – its location, history and context –as a starting point, as well as retaining a close relationship to the artist’s ongoing practice.  Each artist has explored the uniqueness of their chosen printmaking process, resulting in seven strong, individual pieces of work. Together, they form a coherent collection, bringing together seven of the UK’s most dynamic and successful artists; all graduates of Glasgow School of Art who have continuing close connections with the west of Scotland.

Overlapping interests and themes emerge through the full set of prints; a dialogue that explores notions of place and purpose, as well as touching on ideas of self-reference or self-consumption within the artwork itself. Louise Hopkins’ and Nathan Coley’s monochrome prints allude to the image disappearing within itself, while Claire Barclay’s work, though abstract in nature, depicts elements from the process of its construction. Simon Starling’s work links to his recent commission at Cove Park Autoxylopyrocycloboros, involving a cyclical journey on a boat, where the vessel eventually destroyed itself.  Cove Park’s locality is also implied in Christine Borland’s work, with an image of a nearby tree linking to wider issues of social and moral responsibility. Ross Sinclair also cites Cove’s location, and in a similar way to Graham Fagen, he uses cultural references and appropriated images to reflect on notions of personal and collective identity, simultaneously local and global.

Autoxylopyrocycloboros, 2006
Archival Giclée print with Epson pigment Ultrachrome ink and burning

Winner of the 2005 Turner Prize, Simon Starling is one of Scotland’s most internationally acclaimed artists. His works often consist of ‘journeys’ that reveal hidden relationships and histories in the process of transforming one object or substance into another.  In 2004 he accepted the first Cove Park Commission and developed Autoxylopyrocycloboros: a major project launched in the summer of 2006 that focused on the history and geography of the Clyde Estuary. For Autoxylopyrocycloboros Starling sailed a small, customised steamboat on Loch Long, feeding the wooden boat piece by piece into the onboard woodburner, until it finally sank. The project formed the basis of his solo exhibition at Kunstverein Heidelberg in November 2006, and also for his work for the Cove Park Portfolio. Using an image documenting the sailing, he has converted each archivally guaranteed giclée print, into a unique work by applying a burning process to them.

Edition price: £800 (plus VAT, unframed)
This work was commissioned for and included within the Cove Park Portfolio, 2006. Information on this project, its themes, and the artists involved in available here.

Untitled, 2006
Screenprint. 56 x 76cm, fully archival standard 300grm paper.
Produced for Cove Park by Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Studio

Christine Borland is based in Kilcreggan on the Rosneath peninsula in Argyll & Bute. The artist has a long association with Cove Park, supporting our programme as an advisor, working at times from our studios and, in collaboration with artist Brody Condon, developing the project Circles of Focus on site in preparation for a major exhibition at CCA in 2015.

The artist explores conventional perceptions of morality in her practice, by using investigative processes validated with historical evidence. The theme of her print for Cove Park is an extension of work she developed during a residency at Glenfiddich Distillery in 2004, in the Anatomy Acts exhibition at City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, 2006 and which continued though a three year NESTA fellowship awarded to the artist in May 2006.  The print depicts a common ailment for trees growing near distilleries, whose bark is attacked by a black fungus. Borland transplanted such a tree to Cove Park where it slowly returned to its natural colour. Her print uses both positive and negative versions of a photograph to refer to the tree’s transformation in nature. The horizontal positioning of this symmetrical image also alludes to biophysical patterns such as bronchial structures and branch-like artery networks, relating to the artist’s ongoing interest in the ethics of medical decision-making.

Edition price: £500 (unframed)
This work was commissioned for and included within the Cove Park Portfolio, 2006. Information on this project, its themes, and the artists involved in available here.

We Love Real Life Scotland, 2006
Screenprint. 56 x 76cm, fully archival standard 300grm paper.
Produced for Cove Park by Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Studio

Based in Kilcreggan on the Rosneath peninsula, Ross Sinclair has a long association with Cove Park, supporting the visual arts programme in its early days as an advisor and introducing his students from Glasgow School of Art to our work through visits and discussions.

Sinclair combines wit and wisdom to relate his work to public space, not simply in terms of its architecture or geography, but also to its history, social function and contemporary reality.  He combines text, colour and graphics to test notions of personal and national identity and questions the notion of truth in life and art itself.  The print he has produced for Cove Park is both celebratory and critical. In it, he reworks part of a neon light installation commissioned for Glasgow’s Radiance Festival of Light in 2005. This work was located on the façade of the City Chambers local government building and sought to question the presumptions of national, local, international and personal identity. Sinclair’s print also uses his recurrent ‘Real Life’ slogan, a key element in several recent solo exhibitions.

Edition price £500 (unframed)
This work was commissioned for and included within the Cove Park Portfolio, 2006. Information on this project, its themes, and the artists involved in available here.

my mouth shall speak of wisdom, 2006
cmyk print. 56 x 76cm fully archival standard 300grm paper. Produced for Cove Park by Dundee Contemporary Arts, Print Studio.

Graham Fagen lives and works in Glasgow. He first came to Cove Park to take part in a residency with curator Katrina Brown (now Director of The Common Guild, Glasgow) and theatre maker Graham Eatough in 2006. This led to a number of collaborative projects, including ‘Killing Time’ at DCA in 2007.

Fagen works in a variety of ways to create artworks that examine what he calls ‘cultural formers.’ This print uses an iconic image forged from his ‘library of ideas’ that first appeared in his 2005 solo exhibition and publication Clean Hands, Pure Heart at Tramway, Glasgow, and in a photographic print in his 2006 solo exhibition Closer at doggerfisher, Edinburgh. It references notions of identity, symbolism and cultural associations, with particular reference links between Scotland and Jamaica at the time of the poet Robert Burns. Each time Fagen reworks this strong, graphic historically sourced image he repositions it in a new context.  The new printed version uses a four-colour process, causing the image to slightly fragment, thus adding a sense of dramatisation to its form.

Edition price: £500 (unframed).
This work was commissioned for and included within the Cove Park Portfolio, 2006. Information on this project, its themes, and the artists involved in available here.

Untitled, 2006
Screenprint. 56 x 76cm, fully archival standard 300grm paper. Produced for Cove Park by Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Studio.

Claire Barclay lives and works in Glasgow and has been exhibiting her work nationally and internationally since 1990. She evolves her work in a highly instinctive and experimental way, and is well known for her carefully composed sculptural installations that adopt methods used in weaving, woodturning, ceramics and print, to create a refined vocabulary of forms. Her screenprint for Cove Park used a spontaneous, hands-on process of cutting paper shapes to make the screens with which to print each layer of colour. The overall composition is vibrant and within it are abstracted illustrations of moving scissor blades, the very tool used to produce the shapes. The print relates back to her sculptural practice and her previous use of hand-printed fabrics as sculptural components.

Edition price: £500 ( unframed)
This work was commissioned for and included within the Cove Park Portfolio, 2006. Information on this project, its themes, and the artists involved in available here.

I wish I knew, 2006
Blind embossed etching. 56 x 76cm, fully archival standard 300grm paper. Produced for Cove Park by Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Studio. 

Camouflage Portrait (Black on Black), 2006
Screenprint. 56 x 76cm fully archival standard 300grm paper. Produced for Cove Park by Dundee Contemporary Arts, Print Studio.

Nathan Coley lives and works in Glasgow. His work examines how the values of a society are reflected in, and determined by its built environment, addressing concerns such as the importance of place, the social value of architecture and the meaning and relevance of contemporary monuments. In his work for Cove Park, Coley applied two black inks to black paper to form a ‘camouflage portrait’ that seems to deny or disappear into its own existence. The print alters in visibility according to the viewer’s position and the light sources reflected on it. In doing this it transposes the language of paintings shown at Frieze Art Fair 2006 and in the sculptural models and wall painting in his solo exhibition There will be no miracles here, at Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, 2006. In its title and concept, the print also alludes to military camouflage, linking to the context of Cove Park’s location near the nuclear submarine base Faslane.

Edition price: £500 (unframed)
Please note, the nature of this work means it is difficult to reproduce an image of it at the scale this website permits. Please contact Cove Park directly to receive more detailed images of the work.
This work was commissioned for and included within the Cove Park Portfolio, 2006. Information on this project, its themes, and the artists involved in available here.