Demelza Kingston
Demelza Kingston is a Glasgow-based artist working in photography and moving image with processes that span the analogue, digital and cameraless. Her work considers how humans of the ancient past, the present and the future are dis/connected with the more-than-human. Informed by research, from archive to fieldwork, her work can be seen as a kind […]
Jo Birch
Jo is unfolding and developing as a photographer, and videographer. As a psychotherapist, Jo has supported many people to navigate the challenges of life through the therapeutic use of visual imagery. She recently found her own delight in creating images, especially monochrome photography, and storytelling through street photography and film. This residency will strip away […]
Emilia Beatriz
Emilia Beatriz is the artist based in Scotland awarded a residency at Villa Arson as part of the Magnetic 3 programme. Emilia Beatriz (they/elle) is an artist and access worker from Puerto Rico’s diaspora, based in Glasgow. Informed by Aurora Levins Morales’ ‘historian as healer’ methodology, Emilia’s films weave historical and speculative narratives – grounded […]
Chizu Anucha
Chizu Anucha (aka chizu nnamdi) is the Scottish artist awarded a residency at Villa Arson as part of the Magnetic 2 programme. A Scotsman of Nigerian origin, Chizu Anucha graduated from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in structural engineering and architectural design, and holds a Master of Design in sound for the moving image from Glasgow […]
Magnetic 3 Residencies Announced
Matilda Bevan
Matilda Bevan is a painter living in North East England. She studied at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford (1975-1978) and completed a Turps Correspondence Course in 2019. Her new paintings open to possibilities of expression in textures of paint on the surface, and aim to reveal tonal resonance through relationships of colour. […]
Yambe Tam & Albert Barbu
Yambe Tam and Albert Barbu are a visual artist and creative technologist duo based between London and Paris. They create virtual worlds that speculate on the past, present, and future of consciousness by combining digital technology, gaming, and spiritual practice. Their interdisciplinary approach is inspired by the liminal space between scientific and spiritual, drawing upon […]
Violaine Barrois
Cove Park’s fourth residency through the partnership programme Magnetic Residencies has been awarded to the Marseille-based artist Violaine Barrois. Violaine Barrois’ practice explores the relationship between humans and nature. Educated at the École Supérieure de Design de Marseille (ESDM), and at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Barrois combines her academic background and experiences from […]
Sekai Machache
Sekai Machache (she/they) is a Zimbabwean-Scottish visual artist, film-maker and curator based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self, in which photography plays a crucial role in supporting an exploration of the historical and cultural imaginary. Aspects of her photographic practice are formulated through digital studio-based compositions utilising […]
Louise Hopkins
Double Flower is an outstanding new body of work by the Glasgow-based visual artist Louise Hopkins. Commissioned by Cove Park, the prints, paintings, and performance were developed through a series of site visits and research residencies which allowed Louise to work in Cove Park’s studios and directly in the landscape overlooking Loch Long. Double Flower […]
Maria Fusco
Maria Fusco writes fiction and critical and theoretical texts. She edits publications and contributes to a broad range of international visual culture magazines, books and catalogues. The Mechanical Copula, her first collection of short stories, has recently been published, and she is the founder/editor of The Happy Hypocrite a semi-annual journal for and about experimental […]
Jan Verwoert
Jan Verwoert is a writer, critic and curator. Amongst his many publications on contemporary art is an important book on Bas Jan Ader for the MIT/Afterall One Work series, a Phaidon monograph on Wolfgang Tillmans, and a key essay on conceptual art in Romantic Conceptualism. Verwoert is a contributing editor to Frieze magazine and also […]