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Featuring Cove Park’s Events, Opportunities, Residencies, and more.
Summer 2026
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.
Omid Asadi
Omid Asadi, born in Iran, navigates a diverse journey that intertwines past experiences with creative expression. After growing up in Iran, he ventured into engineering and boxing before embracing art’s calling. In 2007, Omid’s life took an international turn as he immigrated to the United Kingdom. The transition ignited a transformation within him, eventually steering […]
Roy Boswell
Roy Boswell is a sculptor from Helsinki whose work is concerned with the durational qualities of materials. Their work combines objects with music and organised sound, performance traditions, writing, and dramaturgy. Longer lasting materials like stone are placed side by side with fast-paced materials like a song or a beam of light – and the […]
Hillside Projects
Hillside Projects (HP) is an artistic entity formed by Emily Berry Mennerdahl and Jonas Böttern. HP is based in Stockholm (SE). HP’s main interest is in performance and the role of the performer, with an emphasis on the discursive possibilities of telling tales and resisting single narratives. Through a conceptual approach and a performative methodology, […]
Caroline Galderisi
Caroline Galderisi (b. 2000, New York) is a multimedia artist and photographer based in Brooklyn. She received her B.F.A. Fine Arts Parsons School of Design in 2023 and is currently receiving her MA at Hunter College. Her work explores themes of local histories, family and memory utilizing primarily photography, collage, and various printing methods. Caroline […]
Kate Belanger
Kate Belanger is a queer artist and photographer raised in rural Massachusetts, on the border of miles of forest. As a child, some of her strongest memories are of venturing into that place beyond her backyard, into worlds of her own mind and imagination. Her work portrays this love of exploration and fantasy, of escaping […]
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 […]
Sarah Tierney
Sarah Tierney has spent 20 years working in film and television. She began her career as a producer working on international current affairs and documentary, characterised by hard-won access. She has produced work for the BBC, Channel 4, More4, ITN, Creative Scotland and BRITDOC. Her credits include Oscar-nominated, BIFA-nominated and BAFTA Scotland-winning work, and her […]
Sarah Fielding
Sarah Fielding is a theatre director, dramaturg, and writer specialising in devised, interdisciplinary, and experimental performance. Her work spans theatre, circus, immersive experiences, and multimedia storytelling, often exploring innovative ways to engage audiences through physicality, technology, and non-traditional performance spaces. She has directed projects in varied and unconventional locations—cathedrals, car salesrooms, underground tunnels—embracing site-responsive and […]
Kenny Glenaan
Kenny Glenaan is a filmmaker based in Renfrewshire, working across fiction, documentary and theatre. He is currently finishing a PhD looking at the impact of militarism on the village of Garelochhead, out of which he created an ethnographic/autoethnographic documentary film entitled, The Village. Previous work includes the award-winning films: Gas Attack; Summer; Yasmin; Dirt Road […]
Carina NicHaouchine
Carina NicHaouchine is an award-winning Scottish-Algerian filmmaker and writer focused on creative documentary. Her work often explores identity and family as she creates to understand the things that confuse or bring discomfort. Her first short documentary, Ululation, made through Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI), screened internationally and won a John Byrne Award. She is currently in […]
Alicia Storie
Alicia Storie is a climate artist and designer based in Glasgow. Her practice spans installation, spatial design and community-engaged art, exploring the relationship between home and the environment through circular materials and biophilic design. She is the founder of the climate-conscious art and design studio AdesignStorie. Recent installations include House of Wellbeing, a climate-conscious tiny […]
Mairi McGillivray
Mairi McGillivray is a Gaelic singer from the island of Islay off the west coast of Scotland. Mairi comes from a strong gaelic background and uses her heritage along with her dynamic range of musical influences to put her own style on songs from her tradition, performing in Gaelic and other traditional styles. Mairi has […]
Maeva Totolehibe
In partnership with Wysing Arts Centre, we are pleased to host the artist and poet Maeva Totolehibe. Based in France, Maeve is Wysing’s 2026 Magnetic Resident, spending eight weeks in the UK in 2026 as part of Fluxus Art Project’s Franco-UK residency exchange programme. Time in Scotland will enable Maeve to continue her research. Maeva […]
vixnde
This residency is a partnership between the Glasgow-based radio art collective Radiophrenia and the Rotterdam-based arts organisation WORM. The first Radiophrenia radio art residency at WORM was back in 2020 with the artist Cucina Povera and since then Helena Celle, Jim Colquhoun & Jamie McNeill, Murray Collier & Hannan Jones have all spent time tinkering […]
Kate Bowen
Kate Bowen is a Glasgow based writer and producer. Her first full length play, Close Quarters, was put on by Stockroom (previously Out of Joint) in a co-production with Sheffield Theatres in 2018, directed by Kate Wasserberg; and was named by The Observer as one of their top ten theatre productions of that year. Her […]
Spring 2026
Ingrid Bjørnevog Haugnes
Ingrid Bjørnevog Haugnes is a Norwegian textile craft practitioner, artist, and designer based in Oslo. Her practice is grounded in long-term work with Norwegian folk dress and bunad, exploring garments as living structures shaped by labour, care, and repair. Working through making, sewing, and reconstruction, she moves between textile craft, contemporary art, costume, and fashion, […]
Owen Edward Snaith
Owen Edward Snaith is a Scottish designer working across fashion, textile design and mixed media art. Snaith’s work explores traditional Scottish dress, the uniforms of east coast fisherfolk and his own identity. A poetic queer thread weaves throughout his work, which is grounded in craftsmanship, collaboration, and community. These threads inform Snaith’s research and making […]
Hormi
Hormi Chen is the author of the novel Lake Bone, the novella Family in Water, and co-author of 100 Keywords in Literature. Hormi has received the China Times Literary Award, Taipei Literature Award, Jianzhen Environmental Literature Award, New Taipei City Literature Award, Zhong Zhao Zheng Literature Award, and Tainan Literature Award, as well as creative grants […]
Richard McVetis
Richard McVetis is an artist whose practice is inspired by time, geology, and cosmology, explored through textile-based work—particularly hand embroidery, which he describes as ‘rendering with stitch’. His work takes the form of meticulously stitched two- and three-dimensional drawings, shifting between small-scale sculptures and large installations. These pieces visually articulate the passage of time, spatial […]
Bernardo Cubría & Michael John McCarthy
Bernardo Cubría is a Mexican writer. For film, he penned the feature screenplay ‘Copa’ that Eva Longoria is set to direct for SONY and Guerrero which Gina Rodriguez is attached to direct and star in with One Community. He is also currently writing the Untitled Juan Gabriel Biopic that Gaz Alazraki is set to direct […]
NOCTURN
John Darvell is an interactive digital dance artist and Director of NOCTURN, making participatory work with communities, venues and festivals for over 20 years. His practice centres on later-life dancers and interactive immersive technology, creating co-created encounters shaped by the people inside them. Good Enough — supported by Immersive Arts funding — grew out of […]
Gem Kinley
Gem Kinley (she/her) is a recent graduate of BA (Hons) Contemporary Performance Practice from the RCS as part of the Transitions Programme, which looks to bring down barriers that may prevent people from accessing the arts. During her studies, she devised work that combined contemporary performance, music, writing, voice, and community. Gem is a vocalist, […]
Daniel FB Eng
Daniel FB Eng is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work brings together biblical studies, manuscript culture, and paratextual hermeneutics. His research focuses on how marginal texts—titles, hypotheses, annotations, and other paratextual features—function not merely as supplementary material but as active interpretive agents that shape the reading of Scripture. Eng’s work pays particular attention to the Catholic […]
Leo Graf
Leo Graf (born 2000, Switzerland) is a director and VFX artist. He studied Animation at the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art. Leo directs commercials and delivers VFX through his production company Nektar. As a VFX artist, he has collaborated with studios including Scanline VFX, FutureDeluxe, and LuxAeterna, contributing to projects such as Solar […]
Natalie Taylor
Natalie Taylor is a Scottish artist currently working with creative landscape interventions, clothing and events to highlight the fragile but vital relationship between our soils, food systems, pollinators and the expanded web of life. Recent exhibitions include: Earth Matters (2026) and Living Soil (2023) both at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh; Earthbound (2025) Bridderhaus, Luxembourg; and […]
Sophie Frost, Dea Domus
Sophie Frost is the founder and maker of Dea Domus, an interdisciplinary studio based in London working across ceramics, sculptural furniture, and object. Rooted in the traditions of studio pottery, her practice explores the space between art, craft, and design. Her visual language has developed through formal training at the Slade School of Fine Art […]
Bee Hayes
Bee Hayes is a Scottish designer, ceramicist and printmaker based in Fife. Drawing upon her background in Social Anthropology and Fashion Design, Bee approaches her work with a view to creating objects that enhance the daily lived experience with tactility and visual appeal. Working with porcelain to produce functional vessels for the past 10 years, […]
Anna Koutsafti
Anna Koutsafti is a multidisciplinary greek artist. Her works intertwine text and images, form and meaning. Anna delves into dystopian themes, using ‘poor’ images to express themes of generalized anxiety and desire in an uncertain digital age. These images, scavenged online or created with unconventional methods like burner phone cameras, lose their original context to […]
Tom Kelsey
Tom Kelsey is an actor and writer. He trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and has performed in multiple West-End productions – including Olivier Award-Winning comedy ‘The Shark Is Broken’, Ivo Van Hove’s ground-breaking and devastating production of Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘A Little Life’ and most recently in Armando Iannucci’s stage adaptation of Kubrick’s […]
Dirar Kalash
Dirar Kalash is a Palestinian musician and sound artist whose work spans a wide range of musical and sonic practices within a variety of instrumental, compositional and improvisational contexts. He is mostly known for his politically driven soundscape / electro-acoustic project “The Sonic Front”, and the compositions ‘we can’t breathe (for eric garner, george floyd, […]
Mathilde Dewavrin
Mathilde Dewavrin is an artist-architect living in Marseille. After studying architecture in Paris and Rio de Janeiro, she moved to Berlin to work as an architect. Her desire to inscribe her work in a politicised approach to today’s dynamics led her to leave conventional structures and move onto less well-trodden paths. A founding member of […]
felix taylor
felix taylor is an artist and composer from South London. Primarily interested in memory, loss and hauntings. In his installation work, felix explores the different ways music and sound is recorded and reproduced, looking to graphic scores, fm radio and custom built, percussive amplifiers. These explorations often include music composed by felix, alongside speech, performance […]
Jonny Taylor
Jonny Taylor is an emerging furniture maker based in Leith whose practice centres on hand-crafted seating that bridges traditional craftsmanship and contemporary design. Working primarily with wood and natural materials, he is interested in how historic chair forms can be reinterpreted through personal narrative and cultural heritage. His current work explores a hybrid chair that […]
Jack Hunter
Jack Hunter is an award-winning disabled, writer, actor and poet. Originally from Inverness, Jack graduated from Queen Margaret University’s BA Drama & Performance course in 2017. In 2021, Jack wrote One of Two as part of his time on the Playwrights’ Studio and Birds of Paradise Theatre Disabled Playwright Award. Winner of Summerhall’s Mary Dick […]
Sin Park
Sin Park is a painter, researcher, and academic based in Glasgow. Her practice explores the shifting space between abstraction and representation, where memory, gesture, and landscape intertwine. Through intuitive mark-making, erasure, and repetition, she builds layered visual languages that reflect on identity, cultural context, fragmentation, transformation, and the fluid nature of belonging. Her work often […]
Annabel Wright & Helen McCrorie
Annabel Wright is an emerging visual artist with background as a renowned illustrator and musician. She is continuing to expand her illustration practice into visual art projects and collaborations and has experimented with large scale wall-works and installations during a residency with Villa Stuck Museum in Munich. Community is a common focus throughout her practice […]
George Moody
George Moody (they/them) is a Leeds-based artist working across bioart, installation, and sculpture. Their practice is grounded in queer ecology and material-led research, engaging ecological others already in states of collapse. Through foraged plant matter, polluted water, and organic materials prone to decay, they create works that remain entangled with processes of decomposition, mutation, and […]
Harry Josephine Giles
Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, now living in Leith. She has lived on four islands, each larger than the last. She has a MA in Theatre Directing from East 15 Acting School and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. Harry Josephine’s work generally happens in the […]
Letícia Ramos
Letícia Ramos (b. 1976, Santo Antônio da Patrulha, Brazil), lives and works in São Paulo and has shown her work internationally. She explores the limits of the production and exegesis of analogue images through photographic and film works, which she also develops into installations, objects, publications and performances. Her practice is directed towards the aesthetic intersections […]
Licida Vidal
Licida Vidal (b. 1984) lives and works in Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil. She studied Social Sciences at the University of São Paulo (USP). Through performance, photography, video, and installations, her work explores questions of gender and nature within the context of climate emergencies. Her practice weaves together subaltern knowledge, intimate experiences, and academic research in a […]
Roanna Gonsalves
Roanna Gonsalves is an award-winning writer and educator. She was born and raised in Mumbai, India, and now lives in Sydney, Australia. She was the inaugural recipient of The Bridge Awards’ Varuna – Cove Park Writing Residency 2019. She served on the Board of Writing NSW (2018-2023) and has been a judge / assessor of […]
Melissa Joseph
Melissa Joseph is a New York based artist. Her work considers themes of memory, family history, and the politics of how we occupy spaces. She intentionally alludes to the labors of women as well as experiences as a first generation American and the unique juxtapositions of diasporic life. Her work has been shown at the […]
Sumayya Usmani
Sumayya Usmani is a Pakistani author living in Glasgow. She is a Scottish Book Trust Next Chapter Awardee (2021) and the award winning author of two cookbooks, ‘Summers Under the Tamarind Tree’ (2016, Quarto Books) and ‘Mountain Berries and Desert Spice’ (2017, Quarto Books) and one memoir, ‘Andaza: A memoir of food, flavour and finding […]
Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey
Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey are Australian artists who create unexpected situations for listening. They have a long-term highly awarded collaborative practice. Their work is driven by a curiosity about listening in human and non-human ecologies and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences through public and participative interventions. They work with […]
Eleonora Strano
Eleonora Strano is a photographer, filmmaker, and journalist whose work explores the intersections of memory, territory, and ecological transformation. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles and recipient of the EMI-CFD Prize, she has exhibited widely in France and internationally, including the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Photo Vogue Festival […]
Emily Doolittle
Canadian-born, Glasgow-based composer, researcher, and occasional oboist Emily Doolittle’s music has been described as “masterful” (Musical Toronto), “eloquent and effective,” and “the piece that grabbed me by the heart” (The WholeNote). She has an ongoing interest in zoomusicology—the relationship between animal songs and music—which she explores in both her composition and through interdisciplinary collaboration with […]
Carolin Seeliger
Carolin Seeliger explores marine landscapes and the relationship between humans and the nonhuman world. Working with experimental photography, often camera-less, she invites landscapes and non-human agents into a shared creation. By stepping back from the camera and her own human gaze, she works with UV-light sensitive papers and fabrics directly in the landcape, creating space […]
Shona Brown
Shona Brown is a Glasgow-based flautist and music producer whose work explores atmospheric and emotionally resonant sound worlds for flute, voice and electronics. Her solo practice blends contemporary classical, ambient and electronic music with subtle folk influences, creating spacious compositions shaped by breath, texture and stillness. She has released solo work and performed nationally, including […]
Lori Delaney
Lori Delaney is a Scotland‑based theatre maker, performance artist, and researcher with 18 years of professional practice experience facilitating drama workshops across educational and professional settings. She has recently completed a practice‑based SGSAH/AHRC‑funded PhD at the University of Glasgow, where her research uses participatory methods to explore how theatre can disrupt normative breast cancer discourse […]
Jo Clements
Jo Clements is a researcher and writer based near Dingwall. They are interested in all the wonderous ways that people use the past to shape their present, metaphors and cancer, and dandelions. Jo is currently working on a non-fiction, book-length writing project tentatively titled ‘Dandelion’ that intertwines exploration of historical metaphorical and other uses of […]
Susanne Nørregård Nielsen
Susanne Nørregård Nielsen is a Fife-based Danish artist. Susanne is interested in illuminating art works central to the 20th century canon, to provoke new thinking on the impact of artists practice using feminine gendered materiality. Most current work is inspired by the influence of textiles on early 20th century visual art, in particular abstract painting […]
Debjani Banerjee
Debjani Banerjee is an Edinburgh-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans performance, dance, sculpture, textiles, film, and collaborative making. Drawing from her British Bengali heritage, Banerjee explores themes of cultural dissonance, identity, and belonging through a post-colonial lens. Her work reconsiders the complexities of living within and between cultures, interweaving personal narratives with broader questions of […]
Gillian Shirreffs
Gillian Shirreffs has been writing about illness for nearly two decades. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2007, she began writing while on bedrest. What began as a coping mechanism grew into something more—an urgent, unsentimental collection of work about what it means to live in a body that won’t behave. Gillian’s debut novel, Brodie, was […]
Deniz Uster
Deniz Uster is a Scotland-based (b.1981-Istanbul) multidisciplinary artist researcher. Spanning across geological and scientific inquiry, Uster’s art practice is permeated by anthropological and historical research to form pluralistic social narratives, using science fiction as her primary discipline. A fictional shift in nature within these ‘filmic’ narratives forms the foundation for alternative social structures, cultures, economic […]
Jude Barber & Louise Welsh
Jude Barber is an architect and director at Collective Architecture with studios in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee. Together, the team has delivered key projects around the UK that include Glasgow Women’s Library and the City Observatory Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Jude also has specific expertise in strategic planning having co-designed proposals for Granton Waterfront in Edinburgh, […]
Mary Beth Graham
Mary Beth Graham’s background, through education and activism, is in human rights within global supply chains. Her previous research looked specifically at fast fashion manufacturing and its varied damaging impacts on People of the Global Majority, their communities and their environment. Mary Beth is in the final year of her PhD at the University of […]
Adéráyọ̀
Adéráyọ̀ (she/her) is a Nigerian-born, Glasgow-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans music, movement, moving image, and live performance. Her work explores queerness, migration, the mind, memory, and emotional healing, often combining sound, movement, and visual storytelling to create immersive interdisciplinary experiences. Adéráyọ̀ uses her voice not only for lyricism but also as an instrument in […]
Tobe Ellen
Tobe Ellen is a writer and mental health advocate. He is the host of The Barrow Podcast, a show featuring conversations with his mum about divorce, dysfunctional families & mental illness while they attempt to repair their relationship and write a memoir together. In 2026, The Barrow will be developed into a series of live, […]
Alice Langley
Dr Alice Langley is a writer and theatremaker currently based in Glasgow, with expertise in horror, magical realism, fantasy, and speculative fiction, focusing on trauma, reproduction and women’s bodies, memory, and nightmares. She is working on her first play, an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of theatre and circus which uses magical realism to explore […]
Winter 2026
Nasim Luczaj
Nasim Luczaj is a poet and Polish–English translator based between London, Glasgow and the Polish Carpathians. She is the author of HIND MOUTH (Earthbound Press), and her pamphlet responding to Georgia O’Keeffe’s letters to her husband will be out in late 2025 as part of Oblique House’s Diptych series. Her poems have appeared or are […]
Alexandra Papademetriou
Alexandra Papademetriou (b. 1994, Athens) is an artist, researcher, and designer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Working through social engagement and text, her work explores how artistic practices can provide the testing ground for environmental and social change, cultivating a sense of interdependency with the more-than-human. Using shared learning as method, she aims to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogues […]
Tanya Cheadle
Tanya Cheadle is a gender historian based at the University of Glasgow, who specializes in the history of sexually radical and occult subcultures in fin de siecle Scotland. Her current research focuses on masculinity in the Scottish occult revival, and examines the beliefs and practices of male occultists in organizations including the Hermetic Order of […]
Max Alexander
Max Alexander also known as Play Radical is a play worker, artist, writer, educator and all round inclusive play advocate and enthusiast. Max’s work centres play and connection with a particular focus on autistic, neurodivergent and disabled experiences. Max has worked with children and young people (and occasionally adults) with a wide range of interests, needs […]
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 […]
Ellie Griffiths
Ellie Griffiths is the Artistic Director and Co-CEO of Oily Cart, a pioneering UK theatre company specialising in sensory performances for babies, toddlers and children with multiple and complex barriers to access. In 2021 Ellie was awarded the Assitej International award for Artistic Excellence in the field of theatre for young audiences. In 2017 she […]
Phoebe Stuckes
Phoebe Stuckes is a writer from Somerset now living in London. Her pamphlet, Gin & Tonic was published by The Poetry Business and shortlisted for The Michael Marks Award. She has been awarded an Eric Gregory Award and The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. Her first full-length collection, Platinum Blonde was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2020 […]
Two Destination Language
Two Destination Language is the collaborative practice of Katherina Radeva and Alister Lownie – multi award winning interdisciplinary artists traversing dance, performance, theatre, live art and the visual arts. Their projects are bold and ambitious centraling identity and community, difference and joy. They employ innovative artistic forms to cross cultural, social, economic and geographic barriers. […]
Oli Fyne
Oli Fyne is Scottish Actor, Writer, Director & Producer working across Film, Theatre & TV. Next appearing in Season 2 of ‘Bookish’, created by Mark Gatiss (NOW TV). Previously title role in the feature film ‘Stella’ by Jessica Fox (Sky & STV). Director’s Apprentice to Alice Seabright on ‘Amadeus’ (Sky Original) and Scotsman Award Runner-Up […]
Theodore Ereira-Guyer
Theodore Ereira-Guyer (1990, London) lives and works between London, UK and Portugal. Ereira-Guyer’s practice switches between print, sculpture and painting. He studied at Byam Shaw School of Art at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art in London. Ereira-Guyer work is held in private and public collections throughout the world including YALE Centre […]
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 […]
Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh
Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh is a viola player and composer exploring the tones of gut strings and wood in both amplified and acoustic contexts. Influenced by improvised, experimental and early music styles, she has released three solo recordings focused on exploring the instrument – Oreing (Fort Evil Fruit 2017), The Rounds (KRUT 2021) and Live At […]
Claudine O’Sullivan
Claudine O’Sullivan is an artist whose practice is structured around movement and process. Working across painting, drawing and illustration, she uses physical motion as a generative tool within the studio. O’Sullivan is a World Illustration Award–winning artist with over a decade of professional experience. Alongside her independent practice, she has produced commissioned work for organisations […]
Nanna Leth
Nanna Leth is a Swedish curator and artist based in Stockholm. With a background in filmmaking, she studied at the Stockholm Film School and holds a Master’s degree in Film Studies from Stockholm University. For over two decades, she has worked as a curator, exploring how art can serve as a vessel for storytelling and […]
Kenny Farquharson
Kenny Farquharson is a Scottish journalist and photographer. He has been a columnist for The Times since 2015, based in Edinburgh and writing about Scottish politics. Career highs include being embedded with Scottish troops in Afghanistan and reporting on Barack Obama’s presidential election campaign. A veteran of the politics of devolution, he was the first […]
Fiona Templeton
Fiona Templeton writes poetry that is mostly for performance, or plays that are poetry. Her work ranges from citywide to intimate scales, with particular attention to matters of the audience, women and orality. She lives in New York, with a foot still in Scotland. Books include You The City, Cells of Release, and The Medead (Roof […]
Hatty Buchanan
Hatty Buchanan (b. 1967, London) lives and works between the Midlands and London. She returned to visual art after a career in West End and Broadway theatre production and as an early dotcom entrepreneur. Part of her childhood was spent in Bangladesh, and alongside extensive travel in the 1980s and 1990s these experiences continue to […]
Zoë Bullock
Zoë Bullock is a writer and performer from Sheffield, who lives in Glasgow. Her writing for theatre includes: Shō and the Demons of the Deep (Imaginate), The Listening Tree (Imaginate/Eco Drama, Edinburgh International Children’s Festival), Puss in Boots: A Solar Punk Pantomime (Hopscotch Theatre), Island Chains (New Earth Theatre, New Stories Festival) and Octopus (Alpine Fellowship Award finalist). Her short films include: The Air We Breathe (Short […]
Heather Marshall
Heather Marshall (she/her) is a queer, disabled artist, writer and facilitator. She often works under the company name Creative Electric where she creates theatre, live and visual art with and for people that may not traditionally engage in the arts due to social, physical and/or financial barriers. She participated in Cove Park’s carer’s residency in […]
Jess Worsdale
Jess Worsdale is a writer living in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She holds an MA in Prose Fiction from UEA. In 2024 her novel-in-progress, speculative fiction exploring the capitalisation of mental health and climate anxiety, was longlisted for the Discoveries Prize, shortlisted for the Bath Novel Award, and was a finalist in the Mslexia Novel Competition. […]
Abigail Fletcher-Drye
Abigail Fletcher-Drye is a British mixed-media artist working across textiles, paint, ceramics, and digital media to assemble a playful menagerie of stuff that tests the possibilities of material form. Using cartoon-like fragments, disembodied limbs and heightened sensory organs, she explores the physical and metaphysical limits of materials. Influenced by new materialism, her work treats matter […]
Wendy Sara Lap
Wendy Sara Lap is an Edinburgh-based artist who paints atmospheric Scottish landscapes shaped by weather, light, and mood. Working mainly in acrylic, she creates soft, misty scenes where land and sky blend together, often with a single sheep or small flock bringing a quiet sense of presence and individuality. Entirely self-taught, Wendy has built her […]
Aqsa Arif
Aqsa Arif is a Scottish-Pakistani interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of film, photography, sculpture, and poetry. Her practice explores themes of syncretic identity, displacement, and cultural dissonance, often grounded in the narrative structures of folklore, mythology, and cinematic language. Navigating these realms through the lens of her own dual identity and lived experience, she […]
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 artists and arts organisations – as dramaturge, facilitator, writer, researcher – they collaborate in projects and processes that attend to alterity, with hope of effecting embodied change […]
Susan Calverley Parker
Susan Calverley Parker is a practicing artist who works in mixed media, including oil paint, graphite, charcoal, ink and watercolour paint. Using the materiality of these mediums, Susan’s work expresses a visual and emotional response to her environment. A single painting often has many oscillating layers, incorporating subtle changes over weeks or months to achieve […]
Jack Lander
Jack Lander is an artist and researcher with multimedia practice grounded in technical and synthetic image-making, theatre and game design. Jack is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Glasgow, where his research explores the experience of remote militarised spaces in the Scottish landscape through simulations and extended reality. Working between the virtual and […]
Meghan Flaherty
Meghan Flaherty is the author of Tango Lessons (2018, Mariner) and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. She writes lyrical and hybrid nonfiction and fiction. Her essays and reviews have appeared in VQR, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Iowa Review, Psychology Today, Parents, and online at the New York Times, The […]
Alice Langley
Dr Alice Langley is a writer and theatremaker currently based in Glasgow, with expertise in horror, magical realism, fantasy, and speculative fiction, focusing on trauma, reproduction and women’s bodies, memory, and nightmares. She is working on her first play, an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of theatre and circus which uses magical realism to explore […]
Lucy Ribchester
Lucy Ribchester is a novelist and short story writer based in Edinburgh. Her first novel, The Hourglass Factory, was a thriller set during the suffragette movement, and was longlisted for the Historical Writers Association Debut Crown and selected by Waterstones’ Edinburgh branches as their Book of the Year. Her second novel, The Amber Shadows mixed […]
Roxani Krystalli
Dr Roxani Krystalli is a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. A key question animating her work is what sustains life in the face of loss. Roxani co-leads an international research project on how practices of love and care help people imagine lives in the wake of grief, illness, violence, and ecological loss. […]
Kirsty Crawford
Kirsty Crawford lives in Glasgow. She writes fiction and non-fiction. Her writing has appeared in Porridge Magazine, the Glasgow Guardian and Aurelia Magazine among others. She has been awarded residencies from Joya Arte & Ecologíca and Cove Park and her work explores identity in relation to place, memory, and the body. While at Cove Park, she will continue working on her first novel.
Magnus Westwell with Océane Robin
Magnus Westwell is a Scottish artist and director working with choreography, composition and performance. Spanning the euphoric and desolate, Westwell’s work seeks to understand and express states of cathartic transformation through embodied sound. Exploring cycles of liminality, transcendence, and absence, Westwell works within ethereal, dream-like worlds, where decaying and generative processes aim to challenge the […]
Christina Sporrong
Christina Sporrong is an interdisciplinary artist, metal sculptor and welding and blacksmithing teacher. She spent most of her career living and working in Taos, New Mexico, where she had the space and resources in her shop, Spitfire Forge, to build large scale sculpture. She uses size, fire, sound and movement to provoke a reaction and […]
Juliet Henderson
Juliet Henderson studied fine arts at the Ecole Normale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, France in the mid-eighties. Since then, she has been a practising visual artist (main medium oil on canvas), an academic since 2000, and a butoh/dance practitioner since 2016. In 2023, she retired from work in Oxford as a lecturer and […]
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 […]
Tricky Hat Productions
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 […]
Lana Enix
Lana Enix is an artist working in new media, sculpture, and immersive installation art. By employing cutting-edge materials and technologies, Enix seeks to reach new, more poignant expressions of the timeless, inexhaustible themes, and to explore the complexities of human experience characteristic of contemporary reality. Her ongoing sculpture series From Within is created from within […]
JOON
JOON is the electronic solo project of Maltese songwriter, producer, and sound artist Yasmin Kuymizakis. Her debut album Dream Again was released in 2021 on Italians Do It Better, combining cushioned beats, woozy electronic textures, and melodic songwriting with messages of hope and vulnerability. In 2023, JOON expanded her international presence, performing at major festivals […]
Aurora Engine
Aurora Engine (Deborah Shaw) is a composer, harpist, and pianist based in Edinburgh, crafting immersive sound worlds that blend electronics, live instruments, and found sounds. Inspired by the natural world, birdsong, tides, and human voices, she tells stories through sound shaping textures that explore tension and unpredictability. Her debut album, Secret Knock (2024) brought sound […]
Martin Green
Martin Green is an accordion player, writer, and broadcaster based in Midlothian. He is the artistic director of Lepus Arts, who produce music, theatre and radio. In 2019 he won the Ivor Novello Composers Award for Sound Art for his large-scale binaural installation Aeons along the River Tyne. He has made several programmes for BBC […]
Alex Smoke
Alex Smoke is a musician and composer working across various fields of sound, including electronic production, sound installation, and instrumental composition. A Cryptic Artist, his work focuses on creating immersive experiences that engage the listener’s consciousness, blending traditional concepts with contemporary techniques. Initially trained in classical cello, drums and singing, then progressing to electronic production, […]
Aga Paulina Młyńczak
Aga Paulina Młyńczak is an artist with a Polish/Scottish/Danish background. Młyńczak’s work is inquiry-led and often created in response to social histories that explore the interplay between power, intimate narratives, and the evolution of language. Młyńczak’s practice has frequently focused on uncovering or imagining the sonic and spatial properties of migration through installations, participatory art, […]
Saba Aznarashvili
Saba Aznarashvili is a musician and producer based in Kutaisi, Georgia, and a member of the band Izmir. His practice blends post-punk and darkwave with Turkish and Persian melodic traditions. His experience includes composition and sound design for inclusive dance projects such as Tune Space and Cities Move. He recently curated the participatory workshop You […]
Konx-om-Pax
Konx-om-Pax is the moniker of Glasgow artist Tom Scholefield, whose multidisciplinary practice spans more than 15 years across electronic music, real time animation, and immersive audiovisual performance. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, he blends conceptual design with technical precision, developing generative systems in TouchDesigner and modular synthesis. His album Caramel was named […]
SHHE
SHHE is the alias of Scottish-Portuguese sound artist, musician and producer, Su Shaw. Based in Dundee, her work explores themes of identity and connection at the intersection of sound and space, environment and ecology, and research and performance. Sound works, performances and installations have been presented at V&A Dundee co-commissioned by MSCTY Tokyo, Sonica Glasgow, […]
Tatsuru Arai
Tatsuru Arai is an artist who fuses classical and contemporary music with AI and computer technology. His work explores cosmic and natural phenomena through sound and visuals, aiming to express a universal beauty beyond emotion and culture. His project Face of Universe links Earth’s ecosystem with solar nuclear fusion, tracing the evolution of life and […]
Daira Ronzoni
Daira Ronzoni is a multidisciplinary artist based in Glasgow, born in Buenos Aires and raised in the UK. Her practice spans immersive installation, moving image, film, sound, painting, sculpture and video games, exploring ritual, ecology, ancestral memory and queer-Indigenous worldbuilding. Influenced by her Indigenous Patagonian heritage and experiences of migration, her work combines physical objects […]
Veronica Petukhov
Veronica Petukhov is a digital artist and VJ working at the intersection of live visuals, 3D rendering and contemporary performance. They studied Contemporary Art Practice at Gray’s School of Art, where their work expanded into electronic music culture and audio-reactive visual systems, leading to performances in club and festival contexts. Their visuals have been presented […]
Shankar Saanthakumar
Shankar Saanthakumar is an artist who makes sound sculptures. His creations explore themes of perception, embodiment, and digital–analogue hybridity, asking what non-human systems might reveal about the human condition. Shankar approaches storytelling in his work with a spatial sensibility; blurring the line between the visual and the sonic, his works emerge as installations and live […]
JIUN Collective
JIUN Collective is a multidisciplinary art collective formed of three sisters, Kharis Wong, Verity Wong and Stephanie Wong. Their work centres on ideas of memory, home and place informed by their history of migration and cross cultural identities. Together they use art as a way to connect, working across a range of mediums including printmaking, […]
Darcie Springall
Darcie Springall is a poet, writer, journalist, and editor based in Edinburgh. She writes poetry that explores love, loss, and transformation, capturing the tension between yearning, acceptance, and deliverance. Her work gives voice to hidden emotions, celebrates lived experiences, and chronicles compassion, reverence, and awe within the human journey. An award-winning amateur photographer (2025 European […]
Simon Bayliss
In collaboration with Cornish cultural organisation Creative Kernow, we are delighted to announce that the second Creative Kernow Associate Residency has been awarded to Simon Bayliss. Simon is a potter, with a background in contemporary art and dance music. His ceramics are mainly made using a wheel in the slipware tradition. Within exhibitions, these have sometimes […]
Taylor Walle
Taylor Walle is a writer whose work explores the dark, the strange, and the surreal. A former English professor, she draws heavily on 18th- and 19th-century British fiction in her own writing, especially the Gothic. She is also the author of an occasional newsletter called Night Hag. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia […]
Anne Milne
Anne Milne is a filmmaker, educator, and writer, based in Glasgow. As well as directing and producing documentaries, she is a co-founder of DocKlub and the DOCMA Collective. Her films have screened widely at film festivals and she is an alum of Berlinale Talents, and a European Film Award nominee. She has also worked with […]
Bede Yolland
Bede Yolland is a writer, researcher and educator based in London. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from UEA and is currently working on her debut novel as part of an AHRC-funded PhD in Creative Writing.
Jess Murrain
Jess Murrain (she/they) is a queer, interdisciplinary creative of British-Caribbean heritage working across live art, performance, film, and poetry. This year, she’s resident poet and writer in residence at Bethlem Gallery in association with Creative Future. Jess is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of Art Wife, an experimental live art company whose most recent […]
Jeff Frost
Jeff Frost is a contemporary artist working to rewild time itself by reconnecting humans to inner and outer worlds through work that is both rooted in nature and inspired by science fiction and art history. He explores nonlinearity, time scale manipulations, and hidden realities as strategic methodologies to create a better timeline through shared ritual […]
Parel Joy
Parel Joy is a poet, literary translator and zine maker based in Amsterdam, working in the Netherlands and Scotland. Her pamphlet The Queen of Cups and Other Poems was published by SPAM in 2022 and she runs DykeHouse Press, which has published 3 zines of queer poetics so far. Parel has translated writing by Bryan […]
Alexandra Farias
Alexandra Farias is an American filmmaker and photographer who hails from the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Los Angeles. She got her start on indie film sets and came up through the camera department. She now works extensively in the Los Angeles music scene, shooting and designing album covers. She has directed several short […]
Beth Morton
Beth Morton is a critically acclaimed director, theatre-maker, and dramaturg. She was Artistic Director of Mull Theatre in 2020/21, and later Associate Director. She has worked most notably with Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Tron Theatre, Beacon Arts Centre, Scissor Kick, A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Royal Shakespeare Company, Manchester Royal Exchange, Theatre Royal Stratford […]
Bridget Smith
Bridget Smith is a London-based artist working with photography, video and site-specific installations to explore the relationship between the real and the imagined within social and architectural spaces. Her artwork addresses our conflicted desire to feel both connected and transported: within society, the landscape and the wider universe. Smith’s approach to photography interweaves multiple positions: […]
Janis MacKay
Janis Mackay is an award-winning author, winning the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2013 with her novel The Accidental Time Traveller. With eleven books for children she has recently made the shift into writing for adults. Her first published novel, which came out in 2025, is On a Northern Shore, by Luath Press. It is described […]
Aqsa Arif
Aqsa Arif is a Scottish-Pakistani interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of film, photography, sculpture, and poetry. Her practice explores themes of syncretic identity, displacement, and cultural dissonance, often grounded in the narrative structures of folklore, mythology, and cinematic language. Navigating these realms through the lens of her own dual identity and lived experience, she […]
