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 […]
Claire Cunningham is a performer and creator of multi-disciplinary performances, based in Glasgow. One of the UK’s most acclaimed and internationally renowned disabled artists, her work is rooted in the study of Crip & disabled experience, practices of care and questioning societal ideas of knowledge and value. She is the Einstein Professor of “Choreography, Dance […]
Through a partnership with the Dutch Foundation for Literature, produced in collaboration with Modern Culture, two translators have been appointed via open call for a fully funded residency centred on mentorship. Shimanto Reza is a literary translator from Dutch and the Managing Editor at World Editions, where he started in 2017 as editorial assistant. His translation […]
Jennifer Wicks is a Glasgow-based interdisciplinary artist, musician and lecturer whose practice spans expanded cinema installation, live audiovisual performance, moving image and sound. Her work investigates the interplay between analogue and digital media, employing obsolete and unstable technologies – such as 16mm film, reel-to-reel tape, and custom light-to-sound systems – to challenge linear narratives. Rooted […]
Sarah Fielding is a theatre director, dramaturg, and writer specialising in devised, interdisciplinary, and experimental performance. Her work spans theatre, circus, immersive experiences, and multimedia storytelling, often exploring innovative ways to engage audiences through physicality, technology, and non-traditional performance spaces. She has directed projects in varied and unconventional locations—cathedrals, car salesrooms, underground tunnels—embracing site-responsive and […]
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 […]