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A unique residency in rural Scotland for national
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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.

Yi-An Hsieh

Yi-An Hsieh was born in Lukang, Taiwan, in 1992. She holds a Master’s degree in Chinese Literature from National Taiwan University and is a member of the Taipei Legend Studio, which is dedicated to researching and promoting local legends of monsters and mysterious happenings. Yi-An Hsieh is the author of the non-fiction titles Taiwanese School […]

Taiwanese Writer Residency

Jackie Bell

After a career in health and a personal health related stocktaking of life goals, Jackie Bell returned to education as a mature student, completing a HND in Contemporary Art at Edinburgh College and then a BA Hons in Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 2023. She was awarded one of the John Kinross […]

The Bridge Awards Residency

Muslim Shaggan

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Muslim Shaggan was awarded a 4-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies supports 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 collaboratively […]

Awarded Residency

Romany Dear

Romany Dear, born in the North of the UK, under a gemini sun, 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 […]

Open Residency

Juana del Mar Jiménez Infante

Juana del Mar born in Bogotá, Colombia and currently lives in Berlin. She grounds her artistic practice, research, and pedagogy in dance and performance exploring the body, its tensions, and its complexities as singular and collective experiences in relation to context and encounter with others. Her projects often unfold in collaboration with artists from diverse […]

Open 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.

Ross MacKay, Suzie Miller, Jim Harbourne

The Jerwood Residencies 2016 supported the creation of new work and innovative ways of working by Scottish artists in a collaborative setting. Generously funded by the Jerwood Charitable Trust since 2002, these two-week residencies focused on research and experimentation within the interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park. Velvet Evening Séance was co-conceived by Ross MacKay and […]

Jerwood Residency

Louise Giovanelli

Louise Giovanelli’s residency is part of a new programme for early-career writers, makers/designers and visual artists based throughout the UK. The artists will work in parallel on site for three weeks on their own projects during Cove Park’s summer programme and will also have the opportunity to work alongside other national and international artists at […]

Early Career Residency

Claire Cunningham with Cormac Lynch, Simone Kenyon, Luke Pell

Claire Cunningham is a performer and creator of multi-disciplinary performance based in Glasgow, Scotland. One of the UK’s most acclaimed and internationally renowned disabled artists, Cunningham’s work is often rooted in the study and use/misuse of her crutches and the exploration of the potential of her own specific physicality with a conscious rejection of traditional dance […]

Open Residency

Kirsty Logan

 Kirsty Logan is a professional daydreamer. Her first story collection, The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales, won the Scott Prize, the Polari First Book Prize, and the Saboteur Award. Her first novel, The Gracekeepers, won a Lambda Literary Award and was selected for the Radio 2 Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club.  A Portable Shelter won the Gavin […]

Associates Residency