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 […]
Mariam Syed
Mariam Syed is a weaver and a current Master of Research student (graduating December 2022) at the Glasgow School of Art. Her research explores the rigid dichotomy between traditional craft and the ever advancing digital technologies in making. She is interested in understanding the growing usage of digital technology and how that shapes the definition […]
Daniel Smyth
Daniel is a multi-disciplinary artist and potter from Bolton, based in Manchester. Primarily working with clay, he has exhibited works across the UK and Ireland, as well as teaching regular workshops from his own studio, and others ceramic studios around Manchester. “Clay continually fascinates me, and my practice is rooted in this admiration for the […]
Deirdre Nelson
Deirdre Nelson a maker creating textiles which explore humour, place and social history. She partners traditional techniques with contemporary processes such as digital print in creating work not only to be exhibited in galleries but on artist residencies, within education and community projects. Resulting works cross over art, design and craft. She enables the communities […]
Nic Green
Nic Green is an award-winning performance maker based in Scotland, known for her works Cock and Bull, TURN, Fatherland, Slowlo, Trilogy, Vivarium. Her work is varied in style and method, spanning dance, theatre, site-specific, sonic and sculptural works, with forms often ‘found’ through collaborative and relational practices with communities, place and material. Her work has […]