Paula Currie
As an emerging book artist, Paula Currie draws on decades of experience in various creative mediums, including mail art, digital media, and cooking. Her artist books and mail art projects often feature wit, humor, and a touch of sarcasm. She focuses on creating books that offer a rich sensory and tactile experience, inviting engagement and […]
Jane Keith
The Maker/Designer Residency supports a Scotland-based maker or designer aged 50+ and is made possible with generous support from the Turtleton Charitable Trust. Following a call for applications, the 2024 residency has been awarded to Jane Keith. Originally from Edinburgh, Jane comes from a family of artists and studied printed textiles at Duncan of Jordanstone […]
NAARCA launches Online Exhibition of Commissioned Artists
Tuija Hansen
Tuija Hansen is a textile artist and educator with Nordic-Canadian roots residing in Robinson-Superior Treaty territory, on the north shore of Lake Superior. Hansen pursued Fibre and Textile Design at Kootenay School of Arts (Nelson, BC) then majored in Social Justice Studies, and Studio Art at Lakehead University (Thunder Bay, ON). She is from Lappe, […]
Sam Kilday
The Argyll Heritage Craft Residency is a new fully funded residency for an Argyll-based maker. Contemporary craft and design have been key aspects of Cove Park’s annual residency programme since 2000 and many of the participating makers have employed traditional craft processes, materials, designs, and techniques in the production of their work. However, this is […]
Kerry McGhee Laura Lightbody
Laura Lightbody is a ceramic artist based in Glasgow producing bold and contemporary functional ceramic pieces. The items that Laura slip cast are simple, geometric forms with surface pattern that is derived from motifs and graphics from the everyday. Each piece is designed, produced and decorated by hand ensuring each form is individual. Alongside a […]
Anna Olson
Cove Park Associate Anna Olson is a Scotland-based interdisciplinary artist. An MFA graduate from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, she studied creative and critical writing alongside philosophy and advanced art practice. This shifted her approach both in terms of material enquiry and methodology. Anna’s clay work is now intertwined with the […]
Mhari McMullan
This year, the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities are supporting their arts & humanities PhD students (based across 17 Scottish institutions) with residencies for creative practice, working with Cove Park to provide dedicated creative time, space, and freedom to develop their doctoral work within a supportive and inspiring context. Mhari McMullan is a […]
Susanne Nørregård Nielsen
Susanne Nørregård Nielsen is a Fife-based Danish artist. Susanne is interested in illuminating art works central to the 20th century canon, to provoke new thinking on the impact of artists practice using feminine gendered materiality. Most current work investigates the influence of textiles on early 20th century visual art, in particular abstract painting with a […]
Erin McQuarrie
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Erin McQuarrie was awarded a 3-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and […]
Tajender Sagoo
Tajender Sagoo is a multi disciplinary artist with a core practice in textile weaving and print making, based in London. Her practice uses textiles in a multi disciplinary approach. She has a strong interest in using pattern and colour to investigate the relationships between objects and the ideas that they express in the historical and […]
Justine Ashbee
American artist Justine Ashbee has over 20 years of experience in the fields of Textile Arts. Her work explores the natural landscape, ephemeral realms of magic, and references themes of alchemy in nature. Recent investigations incorporate amuletic objects with flora from local hedgerows, casting visual spells imprinted onto fabric through light sensitive photographic techniques. These are temporal […]