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This Season

A snapshot of this season’s residencies. Visit the Residencies page for information on our Awarded and Open programmes and how to take part.

A Kenyan vocalist is onstage singing with both of her hands held high. The stage lights are making a purple haze.

Kasiva Mutua

While Kasiva Mutua learned drumming inspired by folktales told by her grandmother, she has developed her own knack for powerful beats. One of Kenya’s leading percussionists and drummers, her expressive playing can tell a story on its own, or keep a band perfectly in the pocket. Today, she’s an international touring percussionist, integrating African traditional […]

Making Tracks

Fiona Soe Paing

Fiona Soe Paing is a music producer, singer and sound artist based in Aberdeenshire, and of Scottish/Burmese heritage. She has been creating music since 2007, with a continuing underlying theme of language, place, belonging and identity. Her first solo track, sung in Burmese, was included on an international “World Music” compilation album for Warner music.  […]

Creative Residencies for Carers
A woman wearing red coveralls working at a printing press with a large wheel.

Paria Goodarzi

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 […]

Landscapes & Horizons Micro Residency

Thulani Rachia

Thulani Rachia is a South African artist working in performance, moving image, music composition and sculpture. Rachia’s work investigates the built environment as an archive to history and how it shapes social hierarchies. His inquiry Siwaguba kanjani amaphupho ethu agqitjwe kulezindonga?: how do we excavate the dreams laid to rest in these walls? currently acts […]

Talbot Rice Residents
A bright yellow room with large geometric shaped pillows. There are two children playing.

Katie Schwab

Katie Schwab works with textiles and installation to explore personal, social and material histories of craft, design and education. Her research focuses on twentieth century domestic interiors, civic architecture and play environments. Embedded in the communities and contexts in which she works, Katie’s long-term projects incorporate collaborative workshops, archival research and craft- based learning. Katie […]

Associates Artists in Schools Residency

Place

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.

Charlie Prodger

Supported by the Craignish Trust, Cove Park’s Emerging Visual Artists programme provides artists with the support required to develop new work at a crucial stage in their careers. Previous residents on this programme include Pio Abad, Giles Bailey, Sara Barker, Lucy Clout and Nick Evans. Charlie Prodger is a visual artist based in Glasgow. Working […]

Craignish Trust Emerging Visual Artist Residency
The artist Jasleen Kaur is pictured in her studio at Cove Park, walking across the space and carrying paper. The Studio has two trestle tables, covered with paper, inks, and other materials. The glass doors feature yellow and blue post-it notes and other printed papers are attached to the walls; the view outside is of grey mist. A ceiling decoration in coloured foil - gold, red, and green - hangs above Jasleen.

Jasleen Kaur

This residency will support an established designer/maker from Scotland. Its aim is to provide 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 […]

Scottish Craft Residency

Ibrahima Thiam

Born in 1976 in Saint Louis, Senegal, Ibrahima Thiam studied economics in Dakar. Following a workshop organized by Goethe-Institute during the Month of Photography at Dakar in 2009, he found his passion for photography. Self-taught, he is interested in memory, archives, African orality as well as myths and legends. Ibrahima collects pictures, including some from […]

RAW Material Company Residency Exchange

Veronika Skliarova

Veronika Skliarova is a cultural manager, theatre producer, and curator from Ukraine. She is the Programme Director of Parade-Fest, was the producer of Сrimea, 5am, an intersectoral performance project, and Ukrainian Odyssey, which involved performances in 5 cities in Ukraine. Since February 2022, Veronika has created Anthology24, a collection of texts for theatre written following the […]

Scotland-Ukraine Arts Residencies