Current
Featuring Cove Park’s Events, Opportunities, Residencies, and more.
Events

Saturday Studios – Pattern Disrupters

Book Launch – Carrion Crow by Heather Parry

The Bernat Klein Fellowships Symposium

Saturday Studios – Spring Ritual
Opportunities

Awarded Residencies 2025 & 2026

Emerging Visual Artist Residency 2025

Subsidised Winter Residencies 2025

Bridge Awards Residencies 2025

Open Residencies

Space Hire
Winter 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.

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 […]

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). […]

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 […]

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 Creative Residencies for […]

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; […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Melanie Stidolph
Melanie Stidolph has been selected for the first Creative Kernow Associates 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 […]

Moira Nilsson
Moira Nilsson is a textile artist based in Sweden. She explores the details and fibers, the structures and surfaces to find both the tension and the merge between different techniques and materials, such as wool, linen, weave and felt. She goes against or mixes the taught ways of how to use the materials and techniques […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]