The Bridge Awards Residencies 2026
The call for applications for the fourth year of The Bridge Awards Residencies is live!
In collaboration with The Bridge Awards, Cove Park is pleased to offer a further five fully funded residencies in May 2026 for artists based in Scotland whose careers have been impacted by a breast cancer diagnosis and who have undergone successful treatment and are up to five years in remission.
The Bridge Awards Residencies will run in parallel for ten days from 4 May – 14 May 2026. People based in Scotland, at any stage of their creative career, and working in any art form or creative discipline, are eligible to apply. The aim is to provide the artist, writer, creative practitioner, or researcher with the time and space to reconnect with their creative practice within the peaceful, supportive, and inspiring context of Cove Park.
Further information on this programme and details of how to apply is available here.
We are very grateful to The Bridge Awards and to Maggie’s for their ongoing support and help with this programme.
The Bridge Awards Residency was launched in 2023 to support artists based in Scotland recovering from breast cancer. The inaugural residency was awarded to Fife-based artist Susanne Nørregård Nielsen.
Building on the success of this first individual residency, a one-week group residency was introduced in May 2024 and awarded to five artists. Now in its fourth year, Cove Park is pleased to offer five fully funded placements in the 2026 group residency which includes music and wellbeing sessions led by Lesley Howells, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Maggie’s Lead Psychologist and members of the Scottish Ensemble.
We are grateful to The Bridge Awards for making this residency possible, and to Maggie’s and Scottish Ensemble for their support.
