Juliana Capes is an award-winning multidisciplinary visual artist. Growing up in coastal Lincolnshire, she continues to live by the sea at Portobello, Edinburgh. She has worked in the arts in Scotland for the last 23 years, exhibiting most recently at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery, Royal Scottish Academy and Edinburgh Art Festival. Current projects are influenced by […]
Alexis Kyle Mitchell works primarily in moving image. Her work deals with the formation of spatial imaginaries through history, politics and acts of belonging. These works include a musical documentary about Jewish summer camp made in collaboration with Stephanie Markowitz; an experimental film that uses colour and sound to explore the sensory perceptions of surveillance; […]
Katie Schwab works with textiles, furniture and moving image within a practice that spans exhibition making, workshops community projects and design commissions. She is interested in underrepresented histories of domestic and civic design and interweaves personal, social and craft-based histories, often drawing from marginalised and overlooked traditions of living, making and working collectively. Working frequently […]
Alison Scott is an artist and writer based in Glasgow working in writing, performance and video. She works frequently in collaboration with other practitioners and views the dialogue this allows for as a key aspect of her work. She is currently Reviews Co-Editor for MAP magazine and Associate Producer at Collective Edinburgh, as part of […]
Working across sculpture, video, sound, text and performance, Aniara Omann describes her practice as: ‘… an exploration of the boundaries of individual objects, and the seeming paradox of simultaneous interconnectedness and individuality.’ She often draws upon the aesthetic language of science fiction and employs casting techniques to produce objects with life-like qualities and varying degrees […]
Anthea Hamilton’s practice comprises installation, sculpture and performance. Her work is executed with the most visually economical means of communicating a body of research, sensation or personal experience. It is normally produced upon commission and responds to the nature of the invitation, meaning it is always made site-specifically and with consideration to the location, the […]
This residency supports an early-career artist based in Scotland. We are grateful to The Bridge Awards for their ongoing support for this programme. Aman Sandhu (born Toronto, Canada, 1984) is based in Glasgow. His practice includes sculpture, drawing, and performance. He collaborates frequently with other artists, activists, writers and academics. His work explores the complexities […]
This winter we are again hosting artists from across the UK and overseas for residencies of 1-2 weeks. During the winter we charge a reduced rate for independently-funded residencies, allowing more artists to benefit from the facilities Cove Park provides. This year’s participating artists are: Agata Zalewska, Scenographer and Playwright Hazel Atkinson, Writer Jamie George, […]
As part of its Satellites Pogramme, the Edinburgh-based visual arts organisation Collective will bring five emerging practitioners to Cove Park for a group residency in February 2020. Satellites is Collective’s development programme for emerging artists based in Scotland. This year, Alison Scott is the Satellites Associate Producer and the four participating artists are: Kirsty Hendry, Sulaïman Majali, […]
B. D. Owens is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Shandon, on the Gare Loch. In 2017, he graduated from the Art, Society & Publics MFA Programme at DJCAD, University of Dundee. Previously, he studied at Concordia University, in Montreal, gaining a BFA in Sculpture. In 2017, he won the Fife Fine Arts Society Prize to […]
Cove Park is pleased to be one of several Scottish organisations taking part in the British Council’s programme of artistic residencies SWAP: UK/UKraine 2019. Three Ukraine-based artists and a curator will spend 45 days in Scotland, while seven UK-based artists will be discovering Ukrainian cultural landscape in collaboration with cultural institutions in Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv […]
Cove Park’s programme of Early Career Residencies supports UK-based artists in the process of establishing their careers, providing an opportunity for research and the development of new work at this crucial stage. We are pleased this year to offer four residencies to artists specialising in composition/music, crafts/design, literature and visual art. This year, the visual […]