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.
Olivia Priya Foster (she/they, b/.1998) is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Glasgow. Foster’s work focuses on rurality, specifically in Argyll, where she grew up on a farm. Foster explores her dual cultural identity and the intersections of South Asian and Scottish heritage. Often working with sculpture, performance, moving image and sound. Foster’s practice deals […]
Charlie Prodger is a visual artist living in Glasgow and working with drawing, moving image, sculpture and writing. Their work orbits histories, from the weight of deep geological time to more contingent narrative forms such as anecdote and oral history. Through the lens of queer subjectivity, they explore intertwined relations between the body, landscape, language, […]
Naeem Dxvis is a Jamaican British artist, filmmaker and curator, originally from South London and currently living between the UK and South Africa. Working across moving image, installation and placemaking, their practice centres decolonial approaches to neurodivergence and gender expansion, using storytelling as a method of collective remembering, intimate disruption and radical kinship. Rooted in […]
Milly Sweeney (she/her) is a performer, playwright and poet from Glasgow, Scotland. Having graduated from New College Lanarkshire in 2024, her acting credits include “Log Off, Loser” (Flower Punk Films,) “The Little Iceberg” (Anam Alba Creatives,) “Macbeth” (New College Lanarkshire,) and “The Caravel” (Cuttin’ Aboot Theatre Co.) Milly made her professional playwriting debut with “Water […]
Michael Donkor studied English at Wadham College, Oxford and then undertook a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, London. The Observer named him as one of 2018’s best debut authors for his first novel Hold (4th Estate) and in 2019, he was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted for the Desmond […]
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.
Ufuoma Essi is a filmmaker and artist from Lewisham, south-east London whose work spans film, moving image, photography and sound. Using the archive as an essential medium, her work revolves around Black feminist epistemology and the configuration of displaced histories, with the aim of interrogating and disrupting the silences and gaps of political and historical narratives. She […]
Dane Mitchell’s practice — which involves installation and sculpture — explores ephemeral phenomena on the threshold of perceptibility. In particular the work investigates a form of ‘plastic invisibility’, exploring territories of transformation between physical states, and seeks to frame, invoke or reify material and sensory qualities which are marginal, unstable, dynamic or transitional. One material […]
Malin Lewis is a musician, composer, instrument maker, educator, and musical director from the Scottish Highlands. They play a range of instruments including various bagpipes, fiddle and whistle. Malin performs regularly across the UK with their trio, Malin Makes Music. Their music draws inspiration from piping traditions across Europe and features self-penned tunes as well […]
Raised on the family croft on the island of South Uist, Rona is part of the lost generation of Gaelic speakers, where many were discouraged from connecting with Gaelic language and culture at school, in a time before the Gaelic-Medium revival had begun. From a family of renowned Gaelic singers, storytellers and pipers she tries […]