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.
A snapshot of this season’s residencies. Visit the Residencies page for information on our Awarded and Open programmes and how to take part.
Anne Hardy’s practice in sculpture and immersive installation re-imagines overlooked terrains, objects, histories and materials as holders of transformative potential. Considering how our bodies encounter spaces, hierarchies, freedoms, and uncertainty in relation to emotions, fragility and resilience, her work is informed by ideas of energetic presence, deep time, future archaeology, climate, and our status as […]
Ana Barjadze (1998, Georgia) is a documentary filmmaker with a passion for storytelling that explores resilience and human connection. She earned her degree in Documentary Film Directing from Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University and Master degree at Doc Nomads, an Erasmus Mundus joint Master’s program in Documentary. Ana’s debut feature-length documentary, Bitter […]
Scottish artist, performer, and director Magnus Westwell and French movement artist Océane Robin returns to Cove Park for a second residency ahead of their work in progress performance at Edinburgh Art Festival on 14 August 2026. Magnus and Océane were here earlier this year to develop a new production – Caught Hold of Nothing – […]
Vincenzo Latronico is an Italian writer and translator. His fourth novel, Perfection, has been translated into over 30 languages and was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. He lives in Milan.
Soorin Shin is a visual artist who explores femininity, foregrounding her Korean heritage as a central reference. Inspired by cultural and historical artefacts such as knots, vessels and patchwork, she delves into themes of sisterhood, motherhood and feminism. She predominantly works with sculpture, shaping organic, curvy and wobbly motifs that echo natural forms, channelling eco-feminist […]
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.
Romany Dear is an interdisciplinary body-based artist. Romany defines her practice as a spilling, an overflow-ing/s of words, gestures and actions that encompass speculative and critical performance practice/s, somatic-erotic touching/s, movement research, facilitation, access-led organising and experimental writing/s. Romany has performed and worked internationally with: Germinal (Bolivia) The Judson Church & The Movement Research Centre […]
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 […]
Paria Goodarzi is an Iranian-born artist and social art practitioner, a member of UNESCO RILA Affiliated Artist network, and The Young Academy of Scotland. Paria studied BA(Hons) in Textile Design from the University of Science & Culture in Tehran, Sculpture & Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art, and Master of Adult Education, Community Development […]
‘Kitchen Conversations’ is a short residency hosted at Cove Park with the international research group Feminism Art Maintenance (F.A.M.) – Yin Aiwen, Petra Bauer, Binna Choi, Mijke van der Drift, Marius Dybwad Brandrud, Fabiana Ex-Sousa, Annette Krauss, Frances Stacey, Kirsten Lloyd, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Nat Raha, Jenny Richards, and Marina Vishmidt. It has been devised as […]