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.
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, […]
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 […]
Jessica Barnfield is a fiction writer based in Edinburgh. Her debut novel was Highly Commended in the Bridport Prize Novel Award in 2022, and she has since been shortlisted and longlisted for the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize and the Bath Flash Fiction Award. Her short story ‘Subsidence’ was runner-up in the 2025 Harper’s Bazaar Short […]
Jack Chown (kiskadee) is a composer and artist whose work blurs the boundaries between organic and electronic sound, crafting cinematic, emotionally charged music for film, brands, and immersive installations. His screen credits include IDA-nominated Stolen Gold (Pulse Films/ESPN), Bad Goods and Cowboy Kings of Crypto (Vice Studios), and How to Take a Nude (Cannes premiere). […]
Molly Astley is an artist and musician living in London. Guided by exploration of sensory experience and vibrational relations, her work is centred on the porous boundary between body and environment. Through sound, performance, drawing and text, she explores the connections between personal, environmental and collective wellbeing, attuning to both the ephemeral (memory, sensation, image, […]
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 […]
We are delighted to announce the writer taking part in the 2022 residency exchange between Cove Park in Scotland and Varuna, the National Writer’s House in New South Wales, Australia. This residency allows one writer from Scotland to spend a month at Varuna and one writer from Australia to enjoy a month at Cove Park. […]
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 […]