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.
Annual Awarded Residencies
A snapshot of this season’s residencies. Visit the Residencies page for information on our Awarded and Open programmes and how to take part.
Anouk Verviers is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and researcher whose work investigates systems of power, examining how they affect bodies and shape entanglements between ourselves, others, and matter around us. Working with bodies, wood, metal, clay, archives, and everyday objects, she creates installations, sculptures, videos, sound works, and performances. Her recent work explores the exhaustion […]
Harriina Räinä is a research-oriented visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Her work explores themes such as corporeality, observation dynamics, and human-animal relationships. She is interested in the connections between artists, locations, materials, and tools. Harriina holds a master’s degree in fine arts from the University of the Arts Helsinki (2019). Her recent projects include […]
Gemma Legan (she/her) is a Glasgow-based performer, deviser, facilitator and musician from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire. She is a graduate from BA (Hons) Contemporary Performance Practice from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Within her work, she often uses writing, Scots language, disruption, juxtapositions and contradictions to explore culture, individual and collective identity, non-conformity and barriers to […]
Michael Kho Lim’s career trajectory lies at the intersection of industry and academia. He has extensive experience in the management of cultural and creative industries — assuming various leadership roles such as being a film producer, executive director, general manager, and holding creative and managerial positions in content writing and editing for different publications. He […]
Sayan Chanda reimagines votive objects, folk divinities, and mythic narratives as hybrid, ambiguous forms through the lens of identity, gender perception, and postcolonial theory. Working intuitively with fibre and clay through weaving, stitching, quilting, dyeing, and hand-building, he makes work that occupies a speculative landscape untethered from place, culture, and period. He’s interested in the […]
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.
Alexis Kyle Mitchell works primarily in moving image. Her work deals with the formation of spatial imaginaries through history, politics and acts of belonging. These works include a musical documentary about Jewish summer camp made in collaboration with Stephanie Markowitz; an experimental film that uses colour and sound to explore the sensory perceptions of surveillance; […]
Margaret Salmon makes film based installations and shorts combining her interests in historical film methods, human and animal behavior, social relationships, realist storytelling and observational filmmaking. She looks to explore the hinterlands of traditional film language and technique while engaging with and critiquing everyday themes and notions in Western culture, presenting audiences with carefully rendered […]
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Coby Sey was awarded a 2-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and […]
The UK Literature residency offers a writer resident anywhere in Britain the opportunity to work on their own project whilst in the company of artists across other artforms. The residency, of up to six weeks in length, can be for writers in any genre, including poetry, memoir and fiction. Previous UK Writer residents include Brian […]