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.

”The Ring’ at Hnoss Gallery, Sweden will feature work by Cove Park’s 2011 UK Crafts Resident Lina Peterson. The exhibition runs from 9th Septmber – 9th October and will be accompanied by a seminar on the 9th September with guest speakers looking at the ring from different perspectives.

This two-month residency supports an established designer/maker based in the UK. It enables them at a key stage in their career to take time out to explore new ideas and ways of working within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme.

Lina Peterson is a jeweller based in London. She is interested in the combination of colour, form and material in her wearable pieces. Having exhibited her work extensively since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2006, Peterson is keen to work on a larger more experimental scale, opening up her practice from the traditional idea of what jewellery is and how it can be presented. She intends to use the time and space at Cove Park to work with scale and to develop ideas around pairings of forms and colours.