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.
Yuvel Soria (b. Bolivia) is a dance artist and creator based in Newcastle upon Tyne. As a British-Bolivian diasporic artist, his work explores identity, belonging, and culture. Rooted in traditional Bolivian, Latin, and contemporary dance, his multidisciplinary practice emphasises collaboration, immersion, and audience interaction. He creates sensory-rich, participatory works that span performance and live art, […]
Nadiyah Abdullatif is a Mauritius-born, Scotland-based editor and translator working from Arabic, French, Mauritian Creole and Spanish into English. Her work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, carte blanche, Wasafiri, ArabLit Quarterly and The Markaz Review. Her co-translation with Anam Zafar of Lebanese graphic novel Yoghurt and Jam (Or How My Mother Became Lebanese) (Balestier […]
Melina Berkenwald is an Argentine visual artist who also works in cultural production, art management, and curatorial projects. She is the founder and director of URRA, an independent non-profit organization that runs art residencies in Buenos Aires since 2010. Trained in painting, she has worked with various media depending on the nature of each project, […]
Ayman Hlal is a leading Syrian violinist, composer, and educator, based in Berlin. He specialises in both Western and Middle Eastern classical music forms. A rising star in his homeland, war in Syria resulted in Ayman seeking refuge in Berlin. Trained in both Western and Middle Easten classical music, in Germany he started several projects, […]
Our partnership with Edinburgh International Book Festival continues this year with a pre-Festival residency for Sophie Gee. Sophie Gee is Professor of English at Princeton University, and co-host of the Secret Life of Books, a much-loved and internationally acclaimed podcast about classic literature. Sophie’s most recent book is The Barbarous Feast: Eating and Writing in […]
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.
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 […]
Lizzy Leech is a set and costume designer and theatre maker from Cumbria. She works collaboratively and predominantly in new writing and devised theatre, with an interest in work that interrogates form and enhances the liveness of sharing a space. Whilst at Cove Park Lizzy plans to develop her work as a lead artist. She […]
Darren Appiagyei is a London-based woodturner. He graduated from University of the Arts London/Camberwell College of Arts in 2016 where he studied 3D Design. His practise embraces the intrinsic beauty of the wood, be it a knot, crack, bark or grain. Darren is an awardee of the Cockpit Arts/Turners Award (2017) through which he received his […]
Our partnership with Edinburgh International Book Festival continues this year with a post-Festival residency for Charlotte Wood. Charlotte is the Australian author of seven novels and three books of non-fiction. Her new book Stone Yard Devotional was described by the Guardian as ‘a quiet novel of immense power’ and has been praised by authors Anne Enright, Tim Winton, Karen Joy […]