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 […]
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 […]