Madeleine Virginia Brown
This residency is part of the nationwide RSA Residencies for Scotland Programme. Madeleine Virginia Brown is a visual artist based in Glasgow. Her practice is primarily performance based and privileges the human body, exploring the tensions between embodied subjectivity and the body as spectacle. Her work explores themes of narcissism, voyeurism and exhibitionism; as well […]
Raydale Dower
The Glasgow-based visual artist Raydale Dower will be based at Cove Park for six weeks during the summer of 2019. The treatment of space through the lens of cultural, social and sonic signifiers is a continuing component of Raydale Dower’s practice. His work can be understood as sculptural, combining elements to create installations that include […]
Natalia Papaeva
Cove Park is delighted to host Natalia Papevea this summer on a residency developed in partnership with TENT Rotterdam. Based in Rotterdam, Natalia is a performance artist and a recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Natalia was the recipient of the TENT Academy Awards in 2018 for her film ‘Yokhor’ (2018), […]
Giles Round
Operating across disciplines, from architecture, ceramics, design, print and typography, Giles Round’s work engages a variety of materials, processes and collaborators to address the relationship between art, design and functionality. As such the work is populated with citation and appropriation and, over the last decade, Round has built an extensive catalogue of references to early […]
Emilia Beatriz
An artist from Puerto Rico’s diaspora, Emilia Beatriz is based in Scotland. Beatriz’s interdisciplinary practice moves between lens-based media, text, sound, and performance; nourished and underpinned by workshops, shared research, collaborations, access work and other relational elements. Most recently, they have collaborated and exhibited in Bogotá, Colombia, Ferrara, Italy and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Since […]
Alec Finlay
Alec Finlay‘s work focuses on cultural and political relationships with wild nature, in particular, place-awareness, ecopoetics, hutopianism and rewilding. Finlay recently concluded a five-year programme of research-based projects with Hauser and Wirth, NTS Mar Lodge and Trees for Life. This work is woven together wit installations and books relating to illness, the body and landscape. […]
Ashanti Harris
This residency supports an early-career artist based in Scotland. We are grateful to The Bridge Awards for their ongoing support for this programme. Ashanti Harris’s work takes the form of performative installations and participatory dance and movement workshops or performances. Trained in sculpture, Harris graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2011 and completed a […]
Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir
Hrafnhildur Halldorsdottir creates installations using drawings and sculptural objects made by using textile materials in a repetitive, abstract way. At Cove Park she wishes to develop a new body of work focusing upon the combination of her drawing and painting practice with her sculptural practice. Based in Glasgow, Halldorsdottir is working towards a two-person exhibition […]
Winter Subsidised Residencies
This winter we are again hosting artists from across the UK and overseas for residencies of 1 – 3 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: Al White, Visual Artist Allyson Keehan, Visual Artist & […]
Tom Sewell
Cove Park’s programme of Early Career Residencies support 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 […]
Anoushka Havinden
Cowall is one of Argyll and Bute’s most striking peninsulas and is visible from Cove Park. This series of residencies, for artists based on the peninsula, has been developed in partnership with the Cowal-based organisation Dunoon Burgh Hall. Anoushka Havinden is an artist and writer. Born in London in 1976 and raised in the North East […]
Andrew Black
This new programme has been introduced for 2018. Cove Park is committed to supporting film and artists’ moving image in all of its forms and sees the partnership with LUX Scotland and the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival as a significant development. Andrew Black is an artist, organiser and cook from the North of […]