Magnetic Residencies is a joint Franco-UK initiative bringing together ten institutions to create a programme of artist residencies: five in France and five in the UK. We are pleased to announce that the recipient of the Magnetic 4 Residency at Cove Park is Mathilde Dewavrin.

Mathilde is an artist-architect living in Marseille. After studying architecture in Paris and Rio de Janeiro, she moved to Berlin to work as an architect. Her desire to inscribe her work in a politicised approach to today’s dynamics led her to leave conventional structures and move onto less well-trodden paths.

A founding member of Collectif Trouble, Mathilde explores those thematics through the prism of theatre (Balaton Residency + Culture Moves Europe Grant in 2023). She is also a founding member of B.U.I.L.D*lab, a queer-feminist building collective seeking to overturn the mechanisms of domination in the world of construction (Urban Praxis in 2024 + Kultur Formen Grant in 2025). Since 2024, she has been teaching how to write and perform theatre in public spaces at the ENSA Marseille. She just finished a residency with Iméra and Citadelle de Marseille.

Mathilde Dewavrin (courtesy of the artist).