Kate Cowcher is Lecturer in Art History and Co-Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art at University of St Andrews. Her research encompasses modern and contemporary art from Africa, cultural exchange in the Cold War, and collections of historic and modern art from the African continent in the UK. In 2021 she curated the exhibition […]
Adrian Bach is a PhD student at the crossing of conservation science, social sciences and modelling at the University of Stirling (UK). With a background in evolutionary biology and ecological systems modelling, his research interest first leaned towards Self-Organisation with the study of collective diet choices in ant colonies and of collective motion in locusts […]
Georgia Holmer has spent over 25 years working on international human rights, peace and security as a writer, analyst, advisor, and artist. Her creative work explores issues of bodily and emotional autonomy, human dignity in life and death, and the nature of peace and violence. Her art also reflects a reverence and connection to the […]
Debashree Mukherjee and Lotte Hoek are film and media scholars whose research engages the histories, practices and forms of global media. At Cove Park, we will develop ongoing monograph projects. We are part of the BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies editorial collective. Debashree Mukherjee is Associate Professor of film and media in the Department of […]
Dr Laura Haynes is a writer, editor and academic based in Glasgow, UK. She is co-director of MAP Magazine, and at The Glasgow School of Art is leader of the studio-based interdisciplinary Art Writing Graduate Programme, where she also edits The Yellow Paper: Journal for Art Writing. Laura’s research and writing is concerned with autotheory and biomythography as […]
Radha D’Souza is a critical scholar, social justice activist, barrister, and writer from India. Together with visual artist Jonas Staal, she is the co-producer of Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes, which ran at Framer Framed, Amsterdam until 16 January 2022. The exhibition is based on Radha’s book What’s Wrong With Rights? (Pluto, 2018). Radha teaches […]
Fiona McGovern is an art historian, writer and curator based in Berlin. Her research, curatorial and educational practice center on (artistic) exhibition history and theory, ethics of curating as well as inter- and transdisciplinary approaches in the arts. Since 2018 she holds a junior professorship in Curatorial Practice and Art Mediation at the University of […]
Deborah Jackson is Lecturer in Contemporary Art and Art Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Her research explores the foundations for, and mutual influence of, art, culture and the organisational structures that underpin our cultural institutions. Her research and practice focus on who, or what, the agents of cultural change are and could be. She […]
Nikki Kane is an independent curator, a current PhD candidate at Edinburgh College of Art, and lecturer in New Media Art at UWS. Her AHRC-funded research there centres on the role of festivals in contemporary art careers, and is undertaken in partnership with Glasgow International and Edinburgh Art Festival. In 2019, Nikki worked in the […]
RL Wilson is an artist living and working in Cumbria. Their research and practice is multidisciplinary, collaborative and socially embedded; focusing on liveness and place – including working with and combining sound, performance, text and the moving image. Crucial to their practice is the facilitation and support of both non-arts people and established practitioners – chiefly in relation to site or […]
Alex Marrs (she/her) is an American arts administrator living in Scotland. She is pursuing a MSc in Creative Industries & Cultural Policy at the University of Glasgow while also serving as Interim Managing Director for Brooklyn-based theatre company, Colt Coeur. Most recently, she served as Chief of Staff – a role that encompassed development, special […]