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 […]
Margaret Salmon
Margaret Salmon makes film based installations and shorts combining her interests in historical film methods, human and animal behavior, social relationships, realist storytelling and observational filmmaking. She looks to explore the hinterlands of traditional film language and technique while engaging with and critiquing everyday themes and notions in Western culture, presenting audiences with carefully rendered […]
Sam Watson & Eleanor Wright
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 and Victor & Hester (Amelia Bywater & Emma Fitts). This […]
Paul P.
Paul P. (born Canda, 1977) lives and works between Paris, New York and Toronto. He is known for paintings and works on paper engaged primarily with portraiture, and with the production of an archive of male faces culled from photographs found in gay magazines dating from the late 1960s to the early 1980s; specifically, the […]
Lauren Printy Currie
This year’s Emerging Visual Arts residency has been awarded to the Glasgow-based artist Lauren Printy Currie. Currie makes sculptural objects and installations that explore experience and perception. Often using purposefully unpredictable casting and relief processes, she assembles sculptures, imagery, light projections and writing to create layers of material and colour into groups that emphasise the […]
Kathryn Elkin
Kathryn Elkin works predominantly with performance, writing and video. She is interested in memory, nostalgia, abstraction and in the trauma of the performing body, or a traumatic split between body and mind, with particular focus on the roles of language, sex and gender. The subject matter in the content of the writing/script element of her […]
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 […]