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Featuring Cove Park’s Events, Opportunities, Residencies, and more.
Summer 2025
Cove Park offers both Awarded and Open residencies throughout the year. We also work in partnership with national and international arts cultural organisations, curators, and producers to develop special residencies and projects.
Romany Dear
Romany Dear, born in the North of the UK, under a gemini sun, is an interdisciplinary body-based artist. Romany defines her practice as a spilling, an overflow-ing/s of words, gestures and actions that encompass speculative and critical performance practice/s, somatic-erotic touching/s, movement research, facilitation, access-led organising and experimental writing/s. Romany has performed and worked internationally […]
Muslim Shaggan
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Muslim Shaggan was awarded a 4-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies supports research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers—working individually and collaboratively […]
Juana del Mar Jiménez Infante
Juana del Mar born in Bogotá, Colombia and currently lives in Berlin. She grounds her artistic practice, research, and pedagogy in dance and performance exploring the body, its tensions, and its complexities as singular and collective experiences in relation to context and encounter with others. Her projects often unfold in collaboration with artists from diverse […]
Susanne Grau
Susanne Grau (*1988, Germany) works as a dancer, choreographer and Rolfing practitioner based in Berlin. Across projects, she explores relationships of language, physicality, imagination and rhythm. She likes to see performative practice as a facilitation of encounters, as a kind of seance and psychomagical field of experimentation. With the support of Seitenwechsel e.V. she is organising […]
Kristin Hauge
Kristin Hauge is a PhD student in the Department of Music at the University of Virginia. As a member of the Composition & Computer Technologies graduate program, she creates music and other media across a wide variety of genres. Her work thus far includes orchestral and chamber works, electronic projects, sonification pieces, jazz compositions, and […]
Dierdre Pearce
Dierdre Pearce is an artist currently living in Canberra, Australia. Originally from far northern Australia, she explores materiality, material cultures, landscapes and rituals of place making, with a focus on rootlessness, fragmentation and alienation. Her approach is based in sculpture and spatial practices including MPhil research (2021) and is informed by past experience in science […]
Aprille McShane
Aprille McShane is a Sheffield based visual artist whose work responds to the natural world around her, with a particular interest in changing seasons, growth and renewal. Through regular drawing, printmaking, photography, and painting, Aprille has developed a practice rooted in observing and reflecting.
Sayan Chanda
Sayan Chanda reimagines votive objects, folk divinities, and mythic narratives as hybrid, ambiguous forms through the lens of identity, gender perception, and postcolonial theory. Working intuitively with fibre and clay through weaving, stitching, quilting, dyeing, and hand-building, he makes work that occupies a speculative landscape untethered from place, culture, and period. He’s interested in the […]
Harriina Räinä
Harriina Räinä is a research-oriented visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Her work explores themes such as corporeality, observation dynamics, and human-animal relationships. She is interested in the connections between artists, locations, materials, and tools. Harriina holds a master’s degree in fine arts from the University of the Arts Helsinki (2019). Her recent projects include […]
Kylie Moppert
Kylie Moppert (she/her) returned to creative writing in 2020 after over 30 years of busyness. She blends memory with fiction to explore uncomfortable truths of life, friendship, love and family. Her work has appeared in anthologies, including Sparx, the annual publication of the Society of Women Writers Victoria, Island Magazine (online) and Bowen Street Press. […]
Vanessa Walters
Working in analogue photography, Walters’ accumulating archive of photographs operate as gentle observations of everyday life, as she seeks to expose both the stillness and chaos in how we inhabit the contemporary world. By casting our attention to things through the richness and weightlessness of colour and light, her images encourage the viewer to look […]
Jen Martin
Jen Martin is an artist working primarily in film and writing. Jen has exhibited films at Alchemy Film Festival in 2022 and 2024, and at CCA Glasgow in 2019 as part of ‘Some things want to run’ exhibition. They contribute regularly to the technical production of artists’ moving-image work and have collaborated with dancers, writers […]
Priya
Olivia Priya Foster (she/they, b/.1998) is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Glasgow. Foster’s work focuses on rurality, specifically in Argyll, where she grew up on a farm. Foster explores her dual cultural identity and the intersections of South Asian and Scottish heritage. Often working with sculpture, performance, moving image and sound. Foster’s practice deals […]
Eva Corijn and Jonathan Reeder
In 2025, we launched a new literary translation residency in partnership with Flanders Literature and Modern Culture as part of the Flip through Flanders programme. This residency includes established translator Jonathan Reeder and early career translator Eva Corijn for a one-to-one mentorship residency translating the work of three Flemish living female authors from Dutch to […]
Anouk Verviers
Anouk Verviers is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and researcher whose work investigates systems of power, examining how they affect bodies and shape entanglements between ourselves, others, and matter around us. Working with bodies, wood, metal, clay, archives, and everyday objects, she creates installations, sculptures, videos, sound works, and performances. Her recent work explores the exhaustion […]
Toben Lewis
Toben Lewis, a dedicated bibliophile and professional bookbinder, operates from the Scottish island of Iona. Initially trained as a graphic designer with a specialisation in books, Toben discovered a passion for bookbinding and honed his skills through self-education and advanced studies with master bookbinders. Inspired by Iona’s natural beauty and historical significance, he produces books […]
Ruth Francesca Mogan
Ruth Francesca Mogan is a visual arts teacher based in Singapore, specialising in guiding students aged 4 to 17 through a wide range of fine art mediums. With a diverse foundation in painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic design, and more, she draws on both her formal training in Art Teaching at the Nanyang Academy of Fine […]
Spring 2025
Vũ Hà Anh
Vũ Hà Anh’s practice is characterised by its fluidity and adaptability, evolving in tandem with her expanding worldview, centred by the key principles of love-freedom-liberation. Currently residing in Saigon, Ha Anh’s work is undergoing a transformation as she delves into the themes of sexuality and the lives of women in marginalised and concealed corners of […]
Sholto Dobie
Sholto Dobie was born in Edinburgh and lives in Vilnius. He performs with self-constructed wind instruments, using a frankenstein-like set up which has evolved over many years. An air pump is attached to a series of reeded and metal pipes from various sources – organs, bagpipes and khene – which are brought to life by […]
Trần Uy Đức
Trần Uy Đức is a self-taught musician based in Hanoi. Active since 2018, his work spans music, videos and social projects, and usually emerges from the interplay of communal exchange and self-detachment. His 2023 self-titled compilation, released on the dispari label by DJ Phuong-Dan, wrapped some of his most distinctive deconstructed club narratives to date. […]
Inge Thomson
Inge Thomson is a musical force like no other. Having grown up in the UK’s most remote island community – Fair Isle, Shetland – Inge has been creating music for over 20 years as a composer, producer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist and performer. Although best known as a long term collaborator with The Karine Polwart Trio, in […]
Josefin Vargö
Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Josefin Vargö is a food artist, designer, and independent curator whose work explores the intersections of food, time, and craft. Using food as both material and medium, she creates sensory and performative installations that provoke reflection on societal structures, norms, and value systems. Through meals and shared experiences, she investigates how […]
David Osbaldeston
David Osbaldeston is a British artist who works across properties of collage, painting and fine print to produce a material outcome best termed collectively as ‘flat sculpture’. His work is often made to interfere with relationships between images and the poetic variables associated with language used to describe them. This is done through a thematic […]
David Greig
David Greig is a writer and theatre director. His play Europe was performed at the Traverse Theatre in 1994. Since then, his plays, adaptions and musical scripts have been performed widely in the UK and around the world. His first play was produced in Glasgow in 1992 and he has written many plays since, produced […]
Graham Eatough
Graham Eatough is a writer and theatre director. Recent projects include adapting and directing the cult Scottish novel, This is Memorial Device for The Lyceum Theatre and Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2022 which won a Fringe First, and the multi-disciplinary project, Floating Worlds: Erraid Sound, made on island of Mull during the Covid 19 […]
Nigel Edwards
Nigel Edwards worked with Forced Entertainment for 29 years, Remote Control/Michael Laub for 17 years and with 7 People Show. He has worked as a lighting designer on Lanark (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow/Edinburgh International Festival) Cleansed, 4.48 Psychosis (Royal Court), Crave (Paines Plough), Robert Zucco, Victoria, The Tempest (RSC) as well as The Maid (ENO) and […]
Laura Hopkins
Laura Hopkins is a set and costume designer. She graduated in Interior Architecture and studied at the Motley Theatre Design course. Her work ranges from mainstream theatre, musicals and international opera to experimental performance and installation. She’s designed for the Old Vic, Royal Court, ICA, National Theatre, Royal Exchange, Barbican, Leeds Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, RSC, […]
Nick Powell
Nick Powell, composer, London musician and ex-member of Strangelove (EMI) has written scores for films, artworks and theatre throughout the world as well as releasing music under his own name and as OSKAR. Nick recently worked with Sam Mendes scoring The Lehman Trilogy (West End, Broadway and World Tour), The Ferryman (West End & Broadway) […]
Flora Litchfield
Flora Litchfield, also known as Flolux, is an Edinburgh-based artist working closely with light, sound and moving image. Her work navigates geographical sites and psychological states, examining the interplay between time and landscape as she intertwines speculative futures with past traditions. Drawing inspiration from folklore, ancient philosophies, and personal narratives, Flora intricately weaves the stories […]
Jenny Mulder
Jenny Mulder merges storytelling with sculpture, crafting narratives and creating corresponding glass and ceramic pieces. Her art invites escapism, presenting imaginary artifacts and miniature worlds. In her latest project, she used hand-dug and processed clay to explore themes of time, location, and memory. Her work delves into the metaphysical nature of everyday objects, examining the items […]
Ondine Gil
Ondine Gilson is a French painter based in Paris and the Dordogne. She explores the theme of immersion, focusing on how external and internal worlds reflect each other. Currently, she is interested in the energy, materials, and atmosphere of nature. Ondine’s instinctive and raw work layers acrylics, oils, and oil pastels, in search of matter […]
Dan Zell
Dan Zell is a designer and writer based in Norwich, currently enrolled in the Creative Writing MA at UEA. His fiction delves into themes of identity, belonging, and solitude, exploring how these experiences are constructed through uniform, ritual, and inherited symbols, and how collective experiences and materiality shape personal narratives. Dan is the founder of The […]
Michelle Burke
Michelle Burke is a folk singer, songwriter, and theatre-maker from East Cork, based in Scotland. She carries her homeland in her voice—unmistakable, unapologetic, a compass that always points toward home. Her hit show Step into My Parlour toured from Edinburgh to India through Spiegeltents, theatres, village halls and festivals. This summer, she’s premiering Mind How […]
P. Harvey Newell & Isobel Cawley
P. Harvey Newell is a Lecturer in Creative & Critical Writing at Birkbeck University. Their essays and poetry have featured in Social Text, The Poetry Review, Magma, Performance Research, Liminalities, and 3AM, amongst others. They recently completed the manuscript of a debut novel. Their creative-critical research is situated in the environmental humanities as it extends […]
Charlotte Bracho
Charlotte Bracho (born 1990, Venezuela) is an artist and designer currently living and working in France (Creuse). Her multidisciplinary practice is grounded in textile thinking, exploring repetitive processes involving lines, light, folds, and patterns. Through video art, sculptures, and installations, she seeks to transform tangible materials into creations that evoke illusion and the imperceptible, driven […]
Antonia Ablass
Antonia is a textile designer and artist from Berlin and Brandenburg. Growing up between the city and the countryside, her textile work is influenced by this duality and aims at bringing together plants, humans and other living things. Early in her textile-design studies, she began exploring the potential of textiles to reweave nature into the […]
Kate Keohane
Dr Kate Keohane is a Fellow in Art History and Wellbeing at St Edmund Hall and The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. Her research centres on the interplay between text and image and the ways in which art can offer alternative models for being-in-the-world. Kate is currently working on her first monograph, which […]
Lucy Parker
Lucy Parker is an artist filmmaker and film educator living in London. Her film work explores spectrums of political and social practices that enable, or form barriers to, community led change. She is motivated by the desire to imagine and live in a way not built on dominance and extraction; this motivation informs her approach […]
Maddie Burnett
Maddie Burnett is a painter and writer based in Edinburgh. Her artistic practice centres on storytelling, drawing inspiration from folklore, alternate realities, and the natural world. Through both painting and prose poetry, she weaves together imagined landscapes and mythic elements, inviting viewers into immersive, otherworldly narratives. Maddie holds a MA in Creative Writing from University […]
Emile Chabal
Emile Chabal is a political and intellectual historian specialising in postwar Europe. He is currently a faculty member at the University of Edinburgh. During this residency at Cove Park, Emile is convening a group of scholars who have collaborated with him on a British Academy-funded project examining race, identity, and political mobilisation in France and […]
Through the Shortbread Tin
Written and performed by Martin O’Connor and directed by former resident Lu Kemp, Through the Shortbread Tin is a brand-new National Theatre of Scotland production, performed in Scots with Gaelic songs, which explores Scottish culture, myths, history and identity. Embarking on a Scottish tour, Through the Shortbread Tin will play Cove Burgh Hall on 25 April […]
Emma Nicolson
Emma Nicolson is a curator, writer, educator and producer, and head of visual arts at Creative Scotland, overseeing Scotland + Venice and support for artists and organisations. With 25 years across museums and galleries in the UK and Australia, she champions culture’s role in social and environmental justice. As head of arts at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh she […]
Sharanya Deepak
Sharanya is a writer from and currently in New Delhi, India. She is also an editor at Vittles Magazine. Her work has been published in Orion, Eater, Vittles, The Audacity, Popula, Atlas Obscura, Wasafiri, Longreads, Roads and Kingdoms, FiftyTwo, The Believer and The Baffler among others. In October 2020, she won the Wasafiri new writing […]
Hannah Lavery & William Letford
Hannah Lavery is a poet and playwright from Edinburgh. Her debut poetry collection Blood Salt Spring (Polygon) was nominated for a Saltire Prize in 2022, her second collection Unwritten Woman was published by Polygon in August 2024. Hannah is the former Makar (poet laureate) for the City of Edinburgh, co-host of feminist arts podcast QuineCast […]
Sherry Wang
Sherry Wang is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice incorporates pigment making, dyeing, and material innovation. Her art practice takes seriously the processes of making, emphasising the labour of materialisation, which involves vigorous bodily engagement with the environment and materials — including searching, gathering, grinding, and more. Thus, production labour is a crucial theme in her […]
Elisabeth Reidy Denison
Elisabeth Reidy Denison is a writer and editor from Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in Prelude, RHINO, The Tangerine, and Thrush, among other places, and her fiction and poetry have twice been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. She has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London, where her […]
Mica Georgis
Mica Georgis is a filmmaker and writer based in London. Their films have screened at international festivals including Outfest LA, Leeds International Film Festival, Cork International Film Festival, Aesthetica and LSFF. Their work has been exhibited at galleries including the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris and the ICA, London. Their first film ISHTAR is available […]
Emily Frisella
Emily Frisella is a writer from the Pacific Northwest, now based in London and currently at work on her first novel. She was shortlisted for the 2017/2018 New Poets’ Prize and her essays have previously appeared in The Rumpus and The Adroit Journal. She also writes a Substack newsletter, ‘Stories I Tell Myself’.
Sarah Ward
Sarah Ward is a fiction writer and an education academic who uses creative methods in research. She has published short stories in New Writing Scotland 38 (2020), the middle of a sentence (2020) and Words about Whiteinch (2010). She won the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize for her novel Resurrection, Port Glasgow in 2017 and was […]
Demelza Kingston
Demelza Kingston is a Glasgow-based artist working in photography and moving image with processes that span the analogue, digital and cameraless. Her work considers how humans of the ancient past, the present and the future are dis/connected with the more-than-human. Informed by research, from archive to fieldwork, her work can be seen as a kind […]
Rebecca Stenfors
Rebecca Stenfors is an artist, writer and filmmaker based in London with a Finnish-Swedish background. Her practice meditates on homecoming as a chosen fiction where narration, diary-keeping and oral storytelling traditions become processes of returning to that which is out of reach. She is fascinated by the illusory proximity and connection of the souvenir, which […]
Yi-An Hsieh
Yi-An Hsieh was born in Lukang, Taiwan, in 1992. She holds a Master’s degree in Chinese Literature from National Taiwan University and is a member of the Taipei Legend Studio, which is dedicated to researching and promoting local legends of monsters and mysterious happenings. Yi-An Hsieh is the author of the non-fiction titles Taiwanese School […]
Peder Clark
Peder Clark is a historian of drugs and health in modern Britain, currently employed at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He is currently writing a new cultural and social history of the drug Ecstasy (MDMA or 3,4-methylendioxymethamphetamine), provisionally entitled Pills: Ecstasy in Britain in the Nineties. His research is supported by the Wellcome trust.
Disrupting Leadership
This residency is part of the Disrupting Leadership research project. The Work Room (Glasgow), Independent Dance (London) and the Inter-University Centre for Dance/ HZT (Berlin) are collaborating on this embodied research project aiming to centre inclusivity, ecological thinking and sustainability. This project is in the context of Claire Cunningham’s Einstein Professorship of ‘Choreography, Dance and […]
Jo Arksey
Jo Arksey is an artist and creative facilitator who relishes working across various media. Although essentially abstract, her individual pieces evoke something recognisable. Reclaiming discarded materials through papermaking has for Jo, been a process of discovery and evolution, combining pulp with text, hair, metal and print in sculptural works and installations. Threads running through Jo’s […]
Jackie Bell
After a career in health and a personal health related stocktaking of life goals, Jackie Bell returned to education as a mature student, completing a HND in Contemporary Art at Edinburgh College and then a BA Hons in Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 2023. She was awarded one of the John Kinross […]
Alison Clifford
Alison Clifford is a Glasgow-based artist whose work investigates the interstitial—or in-between—through digital art. She is interested in processes of translation between different forms of media, considering the new creative possibilities that result from what is lost or gained through such interpretation. Her recent work explores how natural phenomena can influence the relationship between sound […]
Diane Devlin
Diane Devlin was born in Leith, Edinburgh, in 1956 and grew up in a working class family with a love for music and storytelling. A former nurse, she is passionate about amplifying marginalised voices, especially older women. She has worked on community driven film projects tackling health stigma around smear tests and mammogram uptake. A […]
Catherine Simpson
Catherine Simpson is the author of one novel and two memoirs. Her third memoir Hold Fast: Motherhood, My Autistic Daughter and Me is due for publication later in 2025. Her first memoir When I Had a Little Sister: The Story of a Farming Family Who Never Spoke, was described as: ‘Superb’ (Sunday Times) ‘Riveting’ (The […]
Winter 2025
Luke Pell
Luke Pell is a maker, living in Scotland, tending to space. For possibility, for re-remembering, for careful conversation, imagination & emergence. Often a companion in practice to other dance artists and arts organisations – as dramaturg, facilitator, writer, researcher – they collaborate in projects and processes that attend to alterity, with hope of effecting embodied […]
Rachel McBrinn & Alison Scott
Rachel McBrinn’s practice encompasses film, sculpture and writing. Her work is concerned with how spaces are designed, experienced, and how we think about them. Her filmmaking practice is rooted in conversation and relationship building, and in much of her work she looks to make visible the mechanisms of filmmaking, making her own presence felt in […]
Demelza Kingston
Demelza Kingston is a Glasgow-based artist working in photography and moving image with processes that span the analogue, digital and cameraless. Her work considers how humans of the ancient past, the present and the future are dis/connected with the more-than-human. Informed by research, from archive to fieldwork, her work can be seen as a kind […]
Lois Maher
Lois Maher is a multi disciplinary artist, who focuses on responding to natural forms to create abstract narratives with a particular interest in land formations, rocks and found objects. Photography and writing is also part of her practice since graduating from Falmouth University. She now hopes to combine her passion for varied mediums through an […]
Adam Vaughn
Adam Vaughn (AV) is an Edinburgh-based writer, screenwriter, and teacher from Connecticut. They completed their Creative Writing MSc in 2021, serving as the Head Prose Editor for the From Arthur’s Seat anthology. They have placed in numerous screenwriting contests, notably as a short-listed finalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition in 2020. AV is currently undertaking a Creative […]
Sammy Lopez
Sammy Lopez (he/him) is a Tony Award-winning theatre producer and co-founder of P3 Productions, a company dedicated to building productions from the ground up with artists to support new voices and communities. P3 recently produced HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO and JOB on Broadway, with the upcoming Broadway-bound musical GUN & POWDER in development. His […]
Erica Rotstein
Erica Rotstein is a Tony Award-winning theatre producer, talent manager, and educator. Her work is driven by a passion for music, and a desire to nurture creative collaborations built on transparency and mutual respect. Erica is a co-founder of The Business of Broadway, offering classes designed to democratize knowledge and examine the theatrical business model. […]
Rachel Sussman
Rachel Sussman is a Tony Award-winning creative producer, educator, and entrepreneur who believes deeply in elevating human stories that challenge existing systems and create more space for inquiry, empathy, and action. She is a co-founder of The Business of Broadway and a partner at Soto Productions, overseeing all theatrical development. Broadway producing credits: Suffs (Outer […]
Heather Shields
Heather Shields is a Tony-nominated producer and general manager. She received undergraduate degrees at the University of Richmond and later graduated from Columbia University with her Masters in Arts Administration. Her Broadway producing credits include Cabaret with Eddie Redmayne, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Tony nomination), A Christmas Carol (record breaking 5 out of […]
Cally Shine
Cally Shine is a theatre producer from Seattle, WA, based in Dublin. She holds a BA in Theatre and a Minor in Irish Studies from the University of Montana and a Graduate Diploma in Cultural Policy and Arts Management from University College Dublin. Her producing credits include: for Fishamble: Outrage by Deirdre Kinahan (World Premier […]
Jasmyn Fisher-Ryner
Jasmyn Fisher-Ryner is a two-time Olivier nominated producer. She is an independent Theatre and Digital Producer, and Events and Outreach Consultant from East London. She is the company director for her production company JFR Productions Ltd. She worked as a producer for the Royal Court Theatre and was nominated for the Best Producer Award at […]
Maryann Wright
Maryann Wright is a London-based and Australian-born theatre producer of musicals and plays, with a particular passion for new musical development and dramaturgy. Her background as an arts journalist and theatre publicist inform her passion for the commercial theatre sector and its ability to tell the underrepresented stories of our generation. Maryann is particularly passionate […]
Kate Taylor
Kate Taylor is the recipient of the fully funded bursary for an independent or freelance creative producer based in Scotland. Kate Taylor is an award-winning, independent producer of music-led theatre projects. She is producer of A Giant on the Bridge (Made in Scotland Showcase 2024). She is co-producer of A Mother’s Song, a new folk […]
Munya Redman-Bayasi
Munya Redman-Bayasi is the Senior Programmer at Capital Theatres, leading on the programming for two of Edinburgh’s iconic venues, the Festival Theatre and the King’s Theatre. She collaborates with producers across the UK to bring the biggest productions to Edinburgh, including the UK tours of Hamilton, War Horse, and Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. Munya is […]
Nassy Konan
Nassy is an independent Creative Producer based in Kings Heath, Birmingham, with roots in London. She works across Live Art, Dance, Theatre, and Outdoor Arts, focusing on delivering impactful and collaborative projects for diverse audiences. Nassy’s expertise includes producing, programming, artist development, and fostering international exchanges. Her recent work spans mid-scale touring productions, festivals, and […]
Nicola Lawton
Nicola Lawton (she/her) is a Scotland-based producer working across artform with a specialism in circus. From managing festival stages to intimate theatre performances and small to mid-scale touring her work covers an array of activity over the past decade. She is now a company director at Scissor Kick Ltd a Glasgow based production company which […]
Robyn Cabaret
Robyn Cabaret is a dynamic producer and curator dedicated to fostering innovation and collaboration in the arts. As Producer at ArtHouse Jersey, she champions interdisciplinary projects spanning theatre, dance, music, and beyond, exploring liveness in diverse contexts. Her work supports local and international artists in developing groundbreaking projects that resonate with Jersey’s community while reaching […]
Rafia Hussain
Rafia Hussain is a socially engaged theatre producer with a particular focus on racialised artists and producers. She is currently developing a number of new shows with exciting Black and Brown artists from across Britain. Previous work includes projects with Fifth Word, One Tenth Human and Derby Theatre. This year she co-authored ‘Producing Producers’ – […]
Lisette Auton
Lisette Auton is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, predominantly making work as a writer, performer and film and theatre maker. Her focus is on process, creative access and place: creating stories that reflect her northern, disabled and neurodivergent experiences. She is a children’s author published by Puffin: The Secret Of Haven Point (2022); The Stickleback Catchers […]
Natalie Nicolaïdes
Natalie Nicolaïdes is a freelance curator with a compelling portfolio of projects that intersect art, activism, and critical discourse. Holding a BA(Hons) in History of Art, Design, and Film, and an MLitt in Curatorial Practice, Nicolaïdes brings a robust academic foundation to her curatorial endeavors. Nicolaïdes has curated notable exhibitions, including ‘Hosting Stillness’ with disabled […]
Lisa Moffitt
Dr. Lisa Moffitt is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of Graduate Programs at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada, and design editor of Technology|Architecture + Design journal. From 2010-2020, she was Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, where she also completed her PhD Architecture by Design. Her research uses physical models, prototypes, and […]
Emma Musty
Emma Musty is a writer who grew up in the wild beauty of Dumfries and Galloway but these days finds herself most often in the city of Athens, Greece. It was while on a residency at Cove Park that she first heard from Lauren Parsons of Legend Press who would go on to become her […]
Jennifer Porteous
Jennifer Porteous is an interdisciplinary theatre maker. She works with landscape, documentary and archival materials to create intimate stories grounded in people and place. Jennifer’s work has a particular interest in social history, folk traditions and the forgotten stories from marginalised voices. Her previous work includes The Secret Agent, The Alpha Project, The Turing Project, […]
James Ross
James Ross is a pianist and composer who pushes the boundaries of Scottish traditional music. James released his debut album on the Greentrax label, a mix of his piano arrangements of traditional and original material. Chasing the Sun, Ross’s second recording, is a seven-movement suite, evoking a day’s and a year’s westward journey along Scotland’s north […]
Janine Mitchell
Janine Mitchell is a final year Doctoral Researcher. She has a Master of Research in Humanities from the University of Stirling. Her practice-led doctoral research project is focused on Central and Southern Africa and the creation of biographical narratives. She received the Scottish Universities Research Collection Associate Scheme Award for the development of the Mackay […]
Elizabeth Gold
Elizabeth Gold is the author of the memoir, Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity, published by Tarcher/Penguin USA. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Field, Willow Springs, Post Road, Meridian, Guernica and other journals. A native New Yorker, she now lives in Bristol, U.K. She will be working on a novel while […]
Tim Murray-Browne
Tim Murray-Browne is a computational artist, creative coder and AI engineer. His work connects AI, dance and algorithmically generated image and sound to explore new forms of human-machine relations that foster human wildness, autonomy and embodied thinking. It includes conversing with AI through dance, interactive audio-visual sculptures and an ensemble of new musical instruments that […]
Elizabeth Kwant
Elizabeth Kwant’s practice is research based, working across film, performance, installation and printmaking, often making work in collaboration with artists and communities. Her work gives voice to socio-political issues facing contemporary society which have historical roots, seeking to unearth hidden histories, remembering and giving voice through performance for film. Ongoing research interests include: legacies of […]
The Flames
Tricky Hat Productions is a company that makes multi-art form theatre with and about people who live on the margins of our society. They work with people to find a creative and credible voice through participation in high quality, collaborative, cross-arts events alongside high calibre artists. They work in collaboration with agencies, artists and areas […]
Kirsty Russell
Kirsty Russell is an artist living in Aberdeen. Her work is concerned with support, and structures that underpin and maintain. With reference to the women in her family who work in positions of care, she often returns to the physical and emotional weight of the work that they do and to the repetitive nature of […]
Hannah Lavery
Hannah Lavery is a poet and playwright from Edinburgh. Her debut poetry collection Blood Salt Spring (Polygon) was nominated for a Saltire Prize in 2022, her second collection Unwritten Woman was published by Polygon in August 2024. Hannah is the former Makar (poet laureate) for the City of Edinburgh, co-host of feminist arts podcast QuineCast […]
Tracy Fahey
Tracy Fahey is the Irish author of six books and the 2024 winner of The Paul Cave Prize For Literature. She has been a British Fantasy Award finalist in 2017, 2022, and 2024. Fahey has been shortlisted for the London Independent Story Prize (2024) and the Leicester Short Story Prize (2021). She was granted a […]
Jackie Taylor
Jackie Taylor is a Cornwall-based writer of short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and hybrid forms. She is interested in our contested rural edgelands, ageing and care, and approaches to writing climate crisis. Her work has appeared in Mslexia, Inkfish, Spelt, and other journals and anthologies. Her collection of interlinked short stories, Strange Waters, was published […]
Kaljeven Singh Lally
Kaljeven Singh Lally is a writer and director based in Glasgow. As a writer, he focuses on stories specific to his voice and lived experiences as a Sikh person raised in Scotland; combined with his love of cinema. As a writer he has a feature film, Five Thieves, in early development with Screen Scotland/Short Circuit. […]
Robert Rae
Robert Rae is a theatre and film director and writer. He chooses to develop work through socially engaged practice that aligns with his own political and activist commitments. His expertise has taken him all over the world sharing and developing his methodology. His career spans over 30 years, beginning as Producer for 7:84 England and […]
Leilani Taneus-Miller
Leilani Taneus-Miller is a Haitian-American writer based in Edinburgh. An Alexander Dixon Scholar at University of Glasgow’s creative writing programme, she writes in a variety of genres, integrating her academic and professional experience to create literature that elevates underrepresented communities. Her work has appeared in public campaigns, bookshops and anthologies. She is drawn to research […]
Tina West
Tina West is a theatre maker, writer and yogi based in Fife. Her practice includes vocal and sound production, ethnography and visual poetry. Current projects explore and investigate how absence informs presence where glimpses of past and present cultures, identities, and natural phenomena—embedded in sea scraps washed up on shorelines—can be woven together to reveal […]
Jo McGonigal
Jo McGonigal is an artist and Fine Art lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. McGonigal’s Ph.D. is in painting as a post-medium practice and its intersection with architecture. McGonigal has gallery representation with Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow, co-curator of Real Painting: Castlefield Gallery; […]
Hannah Cornish
Hannah Cornish predominantly draws and paints interior spaces from memory, however she is also exploring other mediums in which to work, such as print, installation and dance. She is curious about space and tends to work abstractly. Hannah is also beginning to make figurative work that work alongside her abstract pieces. Graduating from Glasgow School […]
Moira Nilsson
Moira Nilsson is a textile artist based in Sweden. She explores in detail fibres, structures, and surfaces to find both the tension and the ‘merge’ between different techniques and materials, such as wool, linen, weave and felt. She challenges traditional techniques and conventional ways of using materials to find their hidden possibilities. Nilsson often creates […]
Mariam Syed
Mariam Syed is a textile designer, weaver and digital/craft researcher committed to developing an advanced practice that combines craft with digital. Mariam’s tacit knowledge and craft experience in both Pakistan and Scotland empowers her to take charge of the ever advancing technologies to research and reinterpret traditional techniques and weave structures. She designs and weaves […]
Alaya Ang
Alaya Ang is a visual artist whose practice is grounded in material exploration, sound, and collective participation, with a focus on maritime trade, migration, and the intersections of colonial histories and environmental concerns. At the core of their work is storytelling through materials, uncovering how materials carry histories and connect to personal and collective narratives. […]
Rebecca Kathryn Sharp
Rebecca Kathryn Sharp is a British writer currently based in Cumbria but soon emigrating to Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. She recently graduated with a master’s in creative writing from Queen’s University Belfast. Her work is mostly creative nonfiction and lighter fiction influenced by her own experiences with themes of queerness, journey, and belonging. BBC […]
Chloe Austin
Chloe Austin (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist working with text, performance and installation. She is currently a PhD Researcher at Belfast School of Art, Ulster University. Chloe completed her MFA at BSOA in 2020, after receiving her BA in Fine Art and Design at Crawford College in Cork in 2017. Her current practice takes performative […]
Jane Deasy
Jane Deasy is a composer and performer of experimental music. Deasy’s music is typically subtle, slow-moving, deep. Her rich, droning pieces are constructed through layers of analogue and digital synthesis, as well as abstracted field recordings and samples, and make use of unique microtonal tuning systems to create intricate textures and harmonies. The overall effect […]
Vicki Painting
Vicki Painting is a photographic artist who works across film, installation, and sound. She is currently gathering research for a site specific project which has emerged from her practice-based doctoral research at the University of Brighton. This saw her investigate the experience of domiciliary care as experienced by her mother and the resulting creeping institutionalisation […]
Lucy Holland
Lucy Holland is an author working across the fields of history, mythology and fantasy. Her current interest lies in re-imagining folktales and Celtic myth, with a view to re-situating the stories of queer people, and uncovering the complex regional histories of early medieval Britain. Her first historical fantasy novel, Sistersong, a reimagining of the folk […]
Katie Schwab
Katie Schwab works with textiles and installation to explore personal, social and material histories of craft, design and education. Her research focuses on twentieth century domestic interiors, civic architecture and play environments. Embedded in the communities and contexts in which she works, Katie’s long-term projects incorporate collaborative workshops, archival research and craft- based learning. Katie […]
Katie Fraser
Katie Fraser is a Scottish playwright. She collaborated with Framework Theatre to produce Play Pretend (Traverse, October 2023). She has worked with Strange Town to write plays for their youth theatre, Dungeons and Flagons (2022) and I Was Here (2023) as well as their Young Company, You Don’t Know This Yet (2024, Scottish Storytelling Centre). […]
Amandine Vincent
Amandine Vincent is a writer, storyteller, voice actress, performer and theatre-maker originally from France. She is the founder and artistic director of theatre and production company La Banshee. Her work reflects a fascination for audio and location-based experiences, with a deep interest in women-centric stories, folklore, mythology, history and nature. She strongly believes in the […]
Haris Yuliyanto
The Bali-Glasgow Filmmaker Exchange is a residency program for Indonesian and Scottish filmmakers that is made possible with the support of Connections Through Culture (CTC), a grant scheme run by the British Council in the UK and East Asia to foster international collaborations through arts and culture. This program fosters creative dialogue around environmental sustainability, […]
Ebun Sodipo
Ebun Sodipo is an artist and writer who makes work for Black Trans people of the future. Guided by Black feminist study and a methodology of collage and fabulation, her work locates and produces real and imaginable narratives of Black Trans women’s presence, embodiment, and interiority across the past, present, and future. In doing this, […]
Melanie Stidolph
Melanie Stidolph has been selected for the first Creative Kernow Associate residency. Melanie will spend two weeks at Cove Park in March 2025, a period which marks the beginning of a year-long sabbatical to focus on her practice. Melanie’s work is rooted in photography, exploring her relationship to grief and longing in relation to childlessness. Her photos pay attention […]
Ayo Akingbade
This new residency is offered in partnership with the Glasgow-based visual arts organisation The Common Guild and is made possible with support from Mārama Consulting. Ayo Akingbade is an artist, writer and director. She works predominantly with film and installation to address themes of power, urbanism and stance. Much of Akingbade’s work has documented experiences […]
Anna Considine
Anna Considine is an Edinburgh-based photographer working in both digital and 35 mm film photography. She has spent most of her career photographing independent brands all over the UK, starting her photography business in Northamptonshire. Her passion for travel photography emerged on a post-pandemic trip to Scotland, where she decided to make her home. The […]
Katherine Buchanan
Katherine Buchanan is an Australian poet, children’s writer and artist. Her work is inspired by the landscape and environment, as well as global environmental issues.Katherine’s first collection, ‘Leylines’, was published in 2019 by Ginninderra Press. Her second collection, ‘Sanctuary’, was completed during her writers’ residency at Varuna: The Writers House in Katoomba, NSW. Katherine completed […]
Dr Hilary Wason
Dr Hilary Wason is the Head of Curriculum and Academic Development at Kingston University with 30 years of experience in business, education, and research. Her research focuses on curriculum development, the third space in curriculum change, critical thinking, and dialogic education. She holds a Doctorate in Education for her thesis on teaching critical thinking in […]
Titus Davies
Titus Davies is a visual artist whose practice spans sculpture, photography and collage. She is especially drawn to making site specific installations; responding to the history, geography, politics and spirit of a location. Over the last three years at Cove Park, Davies has been making works in response to Loch Long, its connection with Trident […]
Danielle Chavrimootoo
Danielle Chavrimootoo is Director of Dorcas Inclusive Education Consultancy supporting organisations in advancing equality, diversity and inclusion. With over twenty years’ experience in a variety of roles both academic and professional services in Further and Higher Education. Danielle’s background is teaching Health and Social Care in Further Education. Danielle moved into higher education and taught […]
Lora Eli Smith
Lora Eli Smith is a writer from Appalachian Kentucky. Lora’s family has been in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky for seven generations and she comes from a background of social justice organizing and community building that informs her writing. Smith is currently working on a series of essays on climate disaster and radical hope in […]
Aisha Farr
Aisha Farr is an artist and writer who works in adult education and community outreach in London. Some of her writing has appeared in Zarf, Project Self Detective, Try To Be Better, The People’s House and she was shortlisted for The Prototype Prize 2024. She also makes weavings and paintings. Aisha is currently working on […]
Imogen Stirling
Imogen Stirling is a playwright, poet and producer. Her show Love The Sinner (‘a 70-minute ecstasy of words, sounds, light and brilliant design’ The Scotsman), produced by Vanishing Point toured Scotland supported by Creative Scotland. It was nominated for three CATS Awards inc. Best New Play. Her debut play Starving (‘a brilliant watch’ Broadway World) […]
Claire Tindale
Claire Tindale is a visual artist working primarily with sculpture and installation. She uses the miniature, and variations in scale, as a conceptual framework, to explore physical and psychological spaces, responding to environments and those who occupy them. A hospital, empty office building and library, are some of the spaces that Claire has been commissioned […]
Beverley Hood
Beverley Hood is an Edinburgh-based artist, working in digital media, performance art, painting, collage and writing. Her work delves into the impact of technology and science on the body, relationships, and human experience. She collaborates with a range of interdisciplinary practitioners, including medical researchers, scientists, writers, technologists, dancers, actors, and composers. Beverley’s work has been […]
Jo Lennie
Jo Lennie is an early career playwright based in South Lanarkshire. She was the recipient of the Tron Theatre’s Progressive Playwright Award in 2017 and was mentored by Lynda Radley through the Playwrights’ Studio Scotland Mentoring Programme. She was shortlisted for the Scotland Short Play Award (2017) and developed her play Lily with In Motion […]
Jonathan Johnson
Jonathan Johnson is a photographer and filmmaker whose work examines the idea of place and the shifting relationships between humans and the natural world. His practice weaves together autobiography and landscape, drawing from his mixed-heritage background, travel, and backcountry exploration. Through still and moving images, he reflects on how personal and collective histories shape our […]
Laura Haynes
Laura Haynes is a writer, editor and academic based in Glasgow. She was co-director of MAP magazine (2012-2024) and at The Glasgow School of Art is leader of the studio-based interdisciplinary Master of Letters Art Writing postgraduate programme, where she also edits The Yellow Paper: Journal for Art Writing. Laura’s writing and research is concerned with […]
