Douglas Morland
Douglas Morland works across a broad range of media including sculpture, installation, printmaking, video and sound. The transmission and reception of information and the ability (or lack thereof) of a material to mediate between these poles is crucial to his practice. The objects, films and other works he creates often involve repetition, corruption and distortion, […]
Laura Aldridge
Laura Aldridge works with a wide range of media and materials – incorporating both craft and sculptural practices – in order to present ideas through different voices and situations. She is interested in the tensions created between works and the dialogue that this produces. She describes her current work as ‘an attempt to draw out […]
Simon Bedwell
Based in London, Simon Bedwell has been exhibiting his work nationally and internationally since the mid 1990s. For the past five years, his practice has focussed upon ceramic sculpture. This began with the artist making his own ‘ornaments’ to accompany other found objects ,in a series of exhibitions (from 2006 – 2009) based partly upon […]
Pádraic E. Moore & Ian Whittlesea
Cove Park’s One-to-One programme was established in 2012 and is designed to support artists working in collaboration. To date, One-to-One residencies have been awarded to Matt Keegan & James Richards, Kelly Dobson & Ilana Halperin, Ruth Beale & Amy Feneck, Shireen Taylor & Sandra Ross, Victor & Hester (Amelia Bywater & Emma Fitts) and Sam […]
Sarah Wright
This residency, supported for the first time this year by The Bridge Awards, enables an emerging visual artist based in Scotland to develop new work at an important point in their career. This year a four-week residency has been awarded to the Glasgow-based artist Sarah Wright. Sarah’s work focuses upon printmaking and ideas relating to the […]
Ellis O'Connor
Ellis O’Connor is a visual artist from Scotland working in drawing, painting and printmaking. She uses this visual language to challenge assumptions about the natural environment, to reinterpret the grandeur of natural land forms, and to re-present this visual information laden with power. Ellis has been living and working in the far North of Iceland […]
Elinor Gallant
Elinor Gallant is Exhibitions Manager at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, where she develops and presents a variety of exhibitions that engage and inspire audiences in the natural world through a variety of art forms. She is at Cove Park working on two new exhibitions to be presented next year: One will introduce visitors to […]
Portfolio Preparation Weekend
Working in partnership with Comar on the Isle of Mull, Cove Park is pleased to host its first Portfolio Preparation Weekend, enabling students from Argyll & Bute to develop work for their portfolios in advance of making applications for further education or work purposes. This intensive course has been organised with Comar’s Creative Apprentice, Beth […]
Mike Windle
Michael Windle is an artist who works across media. His current focus surrounds a lifelong obsession with the Bass Rock in East Lothian, with themes tipping into geology, philosophy and apostasy. The project is partly in collaboration with ecology writer Ewan Davidson, and the residency is funded by Edinburgh College of Art.
Maria Fusco
Edinburgh-based writer Maria Fusco returns to Cove Part to develop the Artangel Open Commission awarded to her in 2014. This work involves a site specific performance and work for BBC Radio 4 shaped by a cavernous space excavated inside a mountain on Scotland’s west coast.
Alison Turnbull
Visual artist Alison Turnbull returns to Cove Park to develop her ongoing project with the Rosneath peninsula’s Linn Botanic Gardens. This involves the creation of temporary public art work for the gardens and an artist publication produced in collaboration with the writer Philip Hoare.
Brody Condon
Visual artist Brody Condon will be based at Cove Park throughout March. Condon is working with Kilcreggan-based visual artist Christine Borland on ‘Circles of Focus’: a forthcoming exhibition and series of events at CCA, Glasgow, from 4 April – 17 May. The exhibition presents – for the first time – the results of an ongoing […]