Toby Paterson
Toby Paterson is known for his gallery-based installations of painting and sculpture and the numerous commissions he has undertaken for indoor and outdoor public spaces. The forms and ideas inherent in architecture inspire his work, yet architecture is not explicitly its subject. Although he is currently particularly interested in the post-war reinvention of cities under […]
Maria Fusco
In 2014 Maria Fusco was awarded a prestigious Artangel Open Commission. This commission will allow the Edinburgh-based writer to realise a new site specific performance and work for radio, shaped by a cavernous space excavated inside a mountain near the appropriately named Loch Awe in Argyll and Bute. Maria will use this residency at Cove […]
Daniel Poller
Visual artist Daniel Poller will be based at Cove Park for three weeks in December 2014. A recent graduate from Fine Art Photography at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, this will be the first time Cove Park has awarded an Emerging Visual Artist residency to an international artist. This residency has been created with […]
Sarah Tripp
The Scottish Visual Arts Residency supports an established artists based in Scotland, providing space and time for the research and development of new work. The 2009 residency was awarded to the Glasgow-based visual artist and writer Sarah Tripp. Tripp’s current practice is based on a curiosity about human behaviour and a sensitivity to the coercive aspects […]
Will Holder
Typographer, writer and curator Will Holder will be based at Cove Park for three weeks this summer, producing a formal analysis of the commentary that three twentieth century calligraphers wrote alongside their work. Cove Park has a long history of supporting national and international art writers and curators through its visual arts programme. Former residents […]
Sarah Forrest
Sarah Forrest’s videos and installations reflect the central importance of literature to her practice. The influence of fiction, theory and philosophy manifests itself in her work both visually and through written components (usually spoken word narration). Her recent video installation ‘I Left it on Page 32’ (for her solo exhibition at Glasgow’s CCA in 2013) […]
Cara Tolmie
Following an intense period of production and presentation, Cara Tolmie’s four-week residency will enable the artist to reflect upon recent performance and moving image projects, such as ‘Pley’ and ‘Otiumfold’ (both 2013), and to develop a strategy and score for a new moving image work in 2014. Cove Park’s UK Visual Arts Residencies support established […]
Tyler Coburn
Tyler Coburn is a visual artist and writer based in New York. His practice, which includes writing, readings, performance, installation and video, focuses on modes of sociality and subjectivity facilitated by technology. One recent project, ‘I’m that angel’ (2012/2013), surveys data centres, co-location facilities and server farms: the sites that store ‘the cloud’. This project […]
Lauren Gault
This year’s Emerging Visual Arts residency has been awarded to the Glasgow-based artist Lauren Gault. Working primarily in sculptural installation, her work features made and found objects, elemental materials and process based works, all of which are selected for their specific histories and component properties. Gault is interested in how an object may be inhabited […]
Ruth Claxton
Ruth Claxton is known for her large scale, site responsive installations and public sculptures which often use reflective and mirrored surfaces to create complex, interconnecting visual ‘worlds’ inhabited by smaller figurative works. Referencing display systems and architecture, and drawing on languages of art, craft and design, these works usually consist of a series of evolving […]
Victor & Hester
Cove Park’s One-to-One programme was established in 2012 and is designed to support artists working in collaboration. This year, the residency has been awarded to Victor & Hester, an ongoing collaborative project between visual artists Amelia Bywater and Emma Fitts. Launched in 2010, Victor & Hester work collaboratively with both Scotland-based and international artists to […]
Geoffrey Farmer
Cove Park, in partnership with the Scottish Print Network and Edinburgh Printmakers, will host the Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer in June this year. Working between Edinburgh and Cove Park over a period of three weeks, this will be the artist’s first visit to Scotland. During this residency he will develop new work in print with […]