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 […]
Charlie Prodger is a visual artist living in Glasgow and working with drawing, moving image, sculpture and writing. Their work orbits histories, from the weight of deep geological time to more contingent narrative forms such as anecdote and oral history. Through the lens of queer subjectivity, they explore intertwined relations between the body, landscape, language, […]
Noura Alserkal (b. 1990) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice excavates the relationship between the visible and the invisible. Working across sculpture, installation, jewellery, textiles, and archival research, she explores family history and inherited narratives through archival research and re-engineered histories, uncovering overlooked and often taboo stories. She counters expected materiality with an interrogation of […]
Raed Jazbeh is a Syrian musician, double bassist, artistic director and cultural practitioner based in Hamburg, Germany. Growing up in Aleppo, one of the Arab world’s most significant musical cities, he pursued his academic music studies in Damascus alongside studies in visual arts. His practice spans orchestral performance, artistic direction and interdisciplinary cultural projects, examining […]
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 […]
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 […]