This residency aims to support a Scottish emerging or established designer/maker. It provides the artist with the time and space to explore new ideas and ways of working within Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Without the requirement of a final project or presentation, this residency is intended to promote the development of new ideas and work.

Emlyn Firth is a Glasgow-based designer working in the fields of graphics and typography. As well as establishing a successful design practice Firth has worked collaboratively on a number of cross-disciplinary projects in Scotland and abroad. He launched A Visual Agency in 2012 and is part of design collectives such as The Press and State.

His time at Cove Park will be used to research and rework lost typography – specifically PISMO a collection of rare hand drawn

1950 Czech type with a view to generate new work.

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• Emlyn Firth

With this one-month residency Cove Park aims to provide designers and makers based in Scotland with the support required to develop new work at a crucial stage in their careers.

Naomi McIntosh is an applied artist working in Aberdeenshire. With a background in architecture her practice as a jeweller investigates the perception of space and how volumes that surround the body can be made visible.

She plans to use her time at Cove Park to experiment with forms and materials unrestricted by scale and wearability.

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• Naomi McIntosh

This two-month residency aims to support a Scottish emerging or established designer/maker. It provides the artist with the time and space to explore new ideas and ways of working within Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Without the requirement of a final project or presentation, this residency is intended to promote the development of new ideas and work.

Previous residents on this programme include Catherine Aitken, Deirdre Nelson, Frances Priest, Laura Spring and Dawn Youll.

Beca Lipscombe is an Edinburgh based printmaker and textile designer. Working both independently as a designer and collaboratively as part of the company Atelier EB, Lipscombe’s practice is concerned with the exploration and definition of an indigineous Scottish aesthetic through hand and industrial craft production.

She intends to use her time at Cove Park to disseminate research material collected with a view to making new work.

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• Beca Lipscombe

Cove Park’s International Crafts programme expresses our commitment to supporting established international designer/makers and creating ways in which these individuals can engage with artists, organizations and audiences in Scotland. Previous international craft residents include Carolina Apolonia, Johannes Nagel and Tilleke Schwartz.

Hilda Hellstrom is a Swedish product designer.  Since graduating from the RCA in 2012 Hellstrom has been Shortlisted for the Modern Craft Project and completed two major commissions for Swarovski Crystal.

She takes a philosophical approach to her craft-based practice, thoroughly researching a story before making.  Working with materials appropriate to a given theme including earth and film, she explores the notion of myth and the narrative within objects.

On residency at Cove Park Hellstrom intends to do research into the spread of Ash Tree Dieback in the UK to develop into a new body of work.

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• Hilda Hellstrom

This six-week residency supports an established designer/maker at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme.

Previous residents on this programme include Charlotte Linton, Lina Peterson, Joe Pipal, Pottinger and Cole and Lucian Taylor.

Linda Florence is a designer working in bespoke handmade wallpapers and installation artworks. Her works are driven by narratives and often involve an interactive element.

She intends to use her residency to explore cultural references to textile and pattern design within homes and to look at how the action of making connects people with particular reference to a story about tenement cleaning and decorating in Paisley from the early part of the 20^th Century.

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• Linda Florence

This two-week residency, has been created through the generous support of an anonymous donor, specifically to support a crafts person in the design and creation of new work.

Josh Bitelli is a product designer and a recent graduate from the Design & Craft BA at University of Brighton. He makes research based work which responds to a place and the resources and skills that he finds there.

At Cove Park Bitelli intends to use the location, its history, industries and materials to be the catalyst for a new body of work.

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• Josh Bitelli

This month long residency places professional artists in special educational needs departments of schools in the Argyll & Bute region. It is supported by the St James Place Foundation, The Moffat Charitable Trust, Babock Community Investment Group and The Merchant House of Glasgow.  Artists are based at Cove Park for four weeks, during which time they can concentrate on developing their own practice as well as having the unique opportunity of spending a concentrated period of time planning and developing the arts education project. In spring 2013 this residency has been awarded to artists Deirdre Nelson and Frances Priest. Both artists have extensive experience of working on projects in learning and community environments for organisations such as Art Link Edinburgh, Project Ability Glasgow, Art in Hospitals and Luminate.

The 2013 project has been titled Bloomin Rubbish.  The Cove Park artists and the pupils at Parklands School have been collected recyclable plastics from the local community to create a recycled garden full of brightly coloured blooms and insects in the schools playground. Download the PDFs below if you fancy making your own recycled Andy the Caterpillar and Buz the Bee!

How to Make Andy The Caterpillar

How to Make Buz The Busy Bee

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• Deirdre Nelson
• Frances Priest

Nao Matsunaga is currently exhibiting a new body of work at the Diawa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. ‘My Primal Memory’ reflects on Matsunaga’s ideas and experiences of dual cultural and national identity having grown up in both Japan and England. The exhibition can be seen in the Japanese House Gallery from 19 October – 13 December.

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• Nao Matsunaga

The Lighthouse, Glasgow presents Laura Spring’s new textile collection.   Focusing on the relationship between print and function, Spring’s bespoke luggage and clothing features designs developed while on residency  at Cove Park in 2010.  The exhibition opens on 25th October and runs until 3rd December in the Review Gallery.

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• Laura Spring

Cove Park’s 2011 ceramics resident James Rigler has created a new installation at Pollock House commissioned by The Lighthouse, Glasgow.  Rigler has responded to the grandeur and formality of the house in its heyday. His interventions create new narratives and offer an alternative interpretation of the house and its contents, encouraging visitors to look again at the many features and details throughout the house and gardens.  ’Room Service’ runs from 2nd October -4th November 2012. For more details see http://www.thelighthouse.co.uk/visit/exhibition/james-rigler-room-service

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• James Rigler