Artists in Schools
This month long residency places professional artists in special educational needs departments of schools in the Argyll & Bute region. It is supported by the St James Place Foundation, The Moffat Charitable Trust, Babock Community Investment Group and The Merchant House of Glasgow. Artists are based at Cove Park for four weeks, during which time they […]
National Theatre of Scotland
The National Theatre of Scotland will return to Cove Park for a third year this autumn. Over a period of one month, individuals connected to the NTS will focus upon the development of new scripts and future productions. This programme is supported by the Esmée Fairbarin Foundation. The participating artists are: Davey Anderson, Colin Bell, […]
Freeing the Poets Voice
In this challenging, transformative masterclass poets learn how to access their own authentic voice when speaking their poems. The week comprises workshops in voice development designed for poets by Kristin Linklater, the world renowned voice coach to leading actors including Donald Sutherland and Sigourney Weaver. You can find out more about Kristin’s method on her website. […]
Fuel Theatre
A continuing relationship with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation underpins Cove Park’s performing arts residencies. They are run in partnership with Fuel Theatre Services through whom high-profile artists make critically-acclaimed work at Cove Park, whether destined for the Edinburgh Festival or across the UK. 2012 Jerwood Residents are: James Houston Peter Reder Valerie Buhagiar Alex Byrne Kjell Moberg […]
Jo Royle
The exchange of ideas and inspiration is at the heart of the Cove Park experience. To develop this further, Cove Park with the help of Jerwood launched the Creative Catalysts programme in 2011. Creative Catalysts are people of distinction from the arts, science, academia, or more generally from public life, who are invited to Cove […]
Linda Brothwell
This six-week residency supports an established maker/designer at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Previous residents on this programme include Joe Pipal, Pottinger and Cole and Lucian Taylor. […]
2012 Summer Programme
Cove Park’s 2012 summer programme began on 30 April and will continue until mid-September. Details of all the individual and collaborative residencies within this programme are on this website and information on additional residencies taking place from August 2012 will be added shortly.
Rory Middleton
Edinburgh-based visual artist Rory Middleton returns to Cove Park for a second residency. During this time he will be developing his site-specific installation ‘The View‘, produced by CRYPTIC. The work will be presented at Cove Park on 29 and 30 March.
Freeing the Poet’s Voice
Kristin Linklater, the world renowned voice coach, who has worked on voice and performance skills with the likes of Donald Sutherland, Sigourney Weaver and Bill Murray came to Cove Park in April 2011. She has developed her own method, called Freeing the Natural Voice, which is now taught all over the world. It is not […]