Jere Vainio
Finnish artist Jere Vainio is the recipient of the 2024 Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency. Vainio works with familiar materials and seeks to understand them from the perspective of making and unmaking. This approach stems from his experience as a skilled pattern cutter and maker of clothing. He utilises a technical approach to […]
Yvonne Hardman
Yvonne Hardman is the Head of Collections & Programmes at Leeds Museums & Galleries, a large local authority-run museum service, which runs eight venues across the city and cares for 1.3 million objects. Part of Yvonne’s role is to manage the organisation’s Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation programme alongside leading a team of subject-specialist […]
Miranda Vissers
Miranda Vissers is an environmental artist. She has a background of a MSc in environmental health studies and an education in monumental arts. Her work is created out of love for nature and also a concern about the environment. She works with mixed media, all her materials are either found in nature, donated or recycled. […]
Paula Thompson
We are pleased to welcome the artist Paula Thompson to Cove Park for a one-week residency in 2024. Paula is a visual artist based in Edinburgh. She works mainly to commission on public art projects, where her work responds to the history of the site, its environs and its users. She uses a wide variety […]
Lesley McIntyre
Lesley is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Northumbria University, Newcastle. She is fascinated by the mystery of ‘what has gone before’ and driven to uncover and map the hidden histories and narratives of the sites she encounters. This has led her to develop a creative practice in exploring fragments of context, people, place, and […]
Elisabeth den Boer
Elisabeth den Boer is a visual artist. She was born and raised in the Netherlands and after a long period spent in the Austrian alps, now lives in West Sussex. She graduated with an MA from the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts (2021), specialising in traditional methods and materials. She has previously trained as a […]
Justin Carter
Cove Park’s Associates programme is a membership programme for former residents, offering new fully-funded residencies, events, and networking opportunities to ensure we can continue to support residents over a longer period of time. The Associates Visual Artist Residency is for a visual artist and Cove Park Associate based in Scotland and aged 50+. It is […]
Cho Eun Phil
Now in its second year, Cove Park is delighted to partner once again with the Busan Cultural Foundation to provide a four-week residency for a South Korean artist. Following an application process, we are pleased to announce the recipient of this residency is Cho Eun-Phil. After majoring in sculpture in the Department of Fine Arts […]
Susan Sanders-Rosenberg
Susan Sanders-Rosenberg is a visual artist and art facilitator based in Dallas, Texas. A graduate of Columbia University, with a post-baccalaureate certificate in painting from The Art Institute of Chicago, she holds an MFA in painting from Meadows School of Art. Working with ideas of transformation and possibility, Susan has an ongoing interest in obliquely […]
Alessia Zinnari Alex Witthey
Dr Alessia Zinnari is a Lecturer in Italian at the University of Glasgow. Her research is grounded in comparative and feminist methodologies, and explores the relationship between trauma, representation, and the construction of identity. In her recent practice, she has moved from focusing solely on the written word to exploring how both text and image […]
NAARCA launches Online Exhibition of Commissioned Artists
Gwen van den Bout
Gwen van den Bout (1992, Rotterdam) makes art installations, curates exhibitions and creates art publications. She was the winner of an open call of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam and as a result of this, her contemporary installation artwork ‘Being Unpolished’ was exhibited at the museum in 2015. In 2019 Gwen won the ‘Art for […]