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.
We are delighted to announce that the recipient of the 2026 Varuna – Cove Park International Fellowship is Anne-Marie Te Whiu. Anne-Marie Te Whiu (Te Rarawa) is a poet, editor, cultural producer, and weaver based on unceded Gadigal lands in Australia. As an Australian-born-Māori, she is dedicated to platforming the creative output of Indigenous peoples […]
Ayda Pakzad Afshar is an Iranian visual artist and curator based in Scotland, working across collage, painting, installation and image-based research. Her practice explores the body as a site where visibility, memory and systems of representation meet. Working with existing images, archival material and found visual language, she cuts, layers, obscures and reassembles them, often […]
Through a new partnership with deAuteurs, a Belgian authors’ rights management organisation that represents authors of performing arts, audio-visual, literary, and visual works, we are pleased to announce two-week residencies supporting artists developing new work in performance. Céline Timmerman (1990) is a Belgian theatre maker, actress and screenwriter. Her artistic work moves between visual art […]
Through a new partnership with deAuteurs, a Belgian authors’ rights management organisation that represents authors of performing arts, audio-visual, literary, and visual works, we are pleased to announce two-week residencies supporting artists developing new work in performance. Tibau Beirnaert and Laurens Aneca are theatre makers who met while studying drama at KASK in Ghent. Their collaboration […]
Louise V Say is a Glasgow based screenwriter originally from Wales. After five seasons as Producer of the BBC 1 crime drama Shetland, Louise left earlier this year to concentrate on creating her own projects. She has just written her first TV pilot spec script at the National Film and Television School Screenwriting Course. She […]
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.
‘We, the Landscape Research & Residency Project’, is a new programme from Live Performance Bazaar (Prague, Czech Republic). It brings together artists, arts managers, producers, and scientists with the aim of inspiring creativity and innovation to protect and restore nature, and to connect artistic and scientific communities through conversations across Central Europe and beyond. This […]
Nassy is an independent Creative Producer based in Kings Heath, Birmingham, with roots in London. She works across Live Art, Dance, Theatre, and Outdoor Arts, focusing on delivering impactful and collaborative projects for diverse audiences. Nassy’s expertise includes producing, programming, artist development, and fostering international exchanges. Her recent work spans mid-scale touring productions, festivals, and […]
Building on a partnership which began in 2017, The Work Room and Cove Park are collaborating again in 2019 to bring opportunities for The Work Room members to undertake residencies at Cove Park, for themselves and collaborators from other disciplines. The residencies are intended to bring a new dimension to a creative practice or practices. […]
Finnish artist Jere Vainio is the recipient of the 2024 Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency. Vainio works with familiar materials and seeks to understand them from the perspective of making and unmaking. This approach stems from his experience as a skilled pattern cutter and maker of clothing. He utilises a technical approach to […]