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November 2024 Newsletter
The National Lottery Community Award: Project Studio – Youth Voice
New Creative Producers Residency & Commercial Theatre Producing Seminar with Business of Broadway Announced
October 2024 Newsletter
Autumn 2024
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.
Anna McLuckie
Anna McLuckie is a Scottish singer, songwriter and clàrsach player. Raised on classical and traditional music, Anna’s writing draws on her musical beginnings and also takes influence from her love of popular music and more experimental sounds. Her music sits in a world of contemporary folklore; her songs layered with interweaving harmonies, story led lyricism […]
Ayman Hlal
Ayman Hlal was born in As-Suwayda, a city in Syria that is particularly famous for producing artists. A rising star in his homeland, war in Syria resulted in Ayman seeking refuge in Berlin. Trained in both Western and Middle Easten classical music, he started several projects in Germany, which have exposed him to further musical […]
Christian Mohr Levisen
Christian Mohr Levisen is a multi-instrumentalist who was born and raised in the rural area of Vendsyssel in northern Denmark. His main instrument is the rarely seen hurdy gurdy, a mechanical string instrument with roots in the Middle Ages that plays cello-like drones and melodies in the viola register. As the third ever in Scandinavia to […]
Helen Anahita Wilson
Helen Anahita Wilson is an Oram award-winning composer, sound artist, and performer who collaborates with trees, plants, people, and other living beings. As composer-in-residence at Chelsea Physic Garden in London, Helen’s creative relationship with plants has developed into a deep form of collaborative composition. Her unique interpretations of plant biodata and physiological activity readings, combined […]
Kasiva Mutua
While Kasiva Mutua learned drumming inspired by folktales told by her grandmother, she has developed her own knack for powerful beats. One of Kenya’s leading percussionists and drummers, her expressive playing can tell a story on its own, or keep a band perfectly in the pocket. Today, she’s an international touring percussionist, integrating African traditional […]
Nina Harries
Nina Harries is a double-bassist, songwriter, and vocalist. Her debut self-titled solo album was released in 2019 with funding from the PRS Women Make Music fund, while her second record ‘Water’, funded by Arts Council England and recorded entirely by Nina onboard her narrowboat home, was released in February 2022. In addition to her solo […]
Ossi Raippalinna
Ossi Raippalinna is a Finland-based percussionist, producer, researcher, educator, and drum-maker. As part of his recent master’s studies at Sibelus Academy, field trips to Senegal, Mali, Scotland, and Cuba have enriched his understanding of the interplay between rhythm and melody in percussion traditions – particularly within West African drum traditions. Ossi’s repertoire includes the drum […]
Shohret Nur
Shohret Nur is a rawap and dutar player, originally from Xinjiang and currently based in London. An award-winning performer, Shohret specialises in the Uyghur stringed instruments, rawap and dutar. Shohret’s great grandfather was a musician and dutar player from kasghar, Xinjiang, while his grandmother was a dutar player and a professional dancer. Continuing this rich musical lineage and supported by his grandmother […]
p a t s y
p a t s y is a creative entrepreneur, based in Glasgow. She is a multifaceted individual who founded BAMILEK – an independent concept store whose mission is to connect the African Diaspora. She spends a lot of her time capturing life moments through photos, videos and audio, comprising them using mixed media on her […]
Najma Hussein Abukar
Najma Hussein Abukar is a Somali born, Glasgow based photographer documenting cultural and immigrant experiences. Passionate about curating, archiving, and re (focusing) narratives of those underrepresented and marginalised, her practice is concerned with issues of identity, (self) representation and the notion of home and belonging within the Scottish landscape.
Frankie Mulholland
Frankie Mulholland is an artist working with the mediums of movement, visual art and sound. Through these mediums, her work interrogates identity, time, intimacy and dance as a form of healing. She believes in the importance of connection and the shared experience of dance and music we have in club spaces. Clubs as a potential […]
Kialy Tihngang
Kialy Tihngang works in video, sculpture, textiles, animation and photomontage, typically involving elaborate sets, costumes, graphics, props, and collaborations with performers and musicians. As a British-born Cameroonian, her research-based practice focuses on colonial European misrepresentation, extraction, and demonisation of West African cultural practices, but also on her own misremembering, misreading, and romanticisation of said practices, […]
Gaïa
Gaïa (she/they) is a jazz and rnb singer based in Glasgow. Their practice revolves around several collaborative projects within the Neo-jazz scene in Glasgow ranging from rnb to spiritual jazz projects. Their practice has evolved over the past year – now working amongst different scenes and working collaboratively with different musicians, poets, and more.
Tatenda
Tatenda is an artist of the palate. With a background in cheese and wine, she focuses on sustainable ancestral methods of food production and the process that transform flavours within and between food. She uses storytelling approach as an accessible way to share knowledge whilst using our senses to reconnect to our bodies.
Plantainchipps
DJ and Music Producer, Plantainchipps is all about upbeat and fast-paced sounds, music that uplifts and excites. She keeps it energetic, multidimensional, and firmly rooted on the dancefloor with selections including Afrobeats, R’n’B, house and dancehall. Plantainchipps has played a variety of gigs around Glasgow including The Berkley Suite, The Art School and Stereo, and […]
Salma Francoise Faraji
Originally from Tanzania, East Africa, and now based in Glasgow, Salma has taught and performed with multi-generational communities in Scotland. Prior to volunteering in South America as a Human Rights Ambassador, she pursued a career as an Air Traffic Control Assistant. She teaches Aerobics with Soul ® The African Dance Workout, and continues studying British […]
Brooke Robinson
Brooke Robinson is a playwright and novelist from Western Sydney. Her professionally produced plays include Bad Machine (Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2022) and Good Cook. Friendly. Clean (Griffin Theatre, 2018), both published by Currency Press. Her debut novel, The Interpreter, was published in 2023 with Harvill Secker/Penguin Random House in Australia, the UK and Commonwealth, and HarperCollins in the USA. It is […]
Ingrid Glienke
Ingrid Glienke was born in Eckernförde, Germany in 1951. She studied English, Scandinavian Languages and Literature and Creative Writing in Kiel, Canberra and London. She works as an author and translator (English and Danish into German). Her volume of poetry Septemberroad appeared in 2013. Her poetry and short prose have also been published in magazines […]
Wolfgang Butt
Wolfgang Butt, born 1937 in Wuppertal, Germany, is a professor of Scandinavian Studies and lectured at the Universities of Kiel, Munich and Vienna until 2000. He is a short-time publisher of Scandinavian literature (1986-1994) and translator of Scandinavian literature into German (Enquist, Mankell, Stangerup, et al.). Additionally, he writes short fiction and poetry with publications […]
Bonnie Ogilvie
Bonnie Ogilvie (Amsterdam, 1994) is a visual artist who uses Tartan as a means of communication. For each new portrait, she starts with a basic structure and fills it with her visual language. Ogilvie translates her emotions, observations, and environment into unique compositions each time, employing new colours, printing techniques, and scanned objects as means […]
Jo Tomlinson
Sculpture House Residency is a new residency for a visual artist from Paisley (either currently living and working in Paisley or originally from Paisley). Developed by Cove Park in partnership with the town’s Sculpture House, this two-week fully funded residency offers time for self-directed studio work and the development of new ideas and projects. Sculpture House […]
Amy Borezo
Amy Borezo is a US based visual artist from rural Massachusetts who uses the artist’s book form to investigate the production of space. She combines images, text, and book structure to create multi-layered readings of sites that explore the complexities of class, nature, gender, and settler colonialism. Amy is also a bookbinder who designs and […]
Jessica Kerr
Jessica is a cellist and teacher based in Glasgow, with an ongoing commitment to confronting and engaging with the climate crisis through her work. Recent projects include a commission for the Scottish Ecological Design Association, taking birdsong as an indicator of landscape health as the inspiration for a new musical work, and Stories of People […]
Fiona Soe Paing
Fiona Soe Paing is a music producer, singer and sound artist based in Aberdeenshire, and of Scottish/Burmese heritage. She has been creating music since 2007, with a continuing underlying theme of language, place, belonging and identity. Her first solo track, sung in Burmese, was included on an international “World Music” compilation album for Warner music. […]
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 […]
Lana Pheutan
Lana Pheutan is an actor, writer and director from the Isle of Skye. She is a native Gàidhlig speaker and works bilingually across theatre, film, television and radio. She wrote Glan Fhèin (with Hannah McKirdy) and Dad Sam Bith for BBC Alba, both nominated for a Celtic Media Awards (2024). She is the current recipient […]
Thulani Rachia
Thulani Rachia is a South African artist working in performance, moving image, music composition and sculpture. Rachia’s work investigates the built environment as an archive to history and how it shapes social hierarchies. His inquiry Siwaguba kanjani amaphupho ethu agqitjwe kulezindonga?: how do we excavate the dreams laid to rest in these walls? currently acts […]
Clara Fantoni
Clara Fantoni is a British Italian non-binary artist from Brighton. Their practice fuses sculpture, installation and painting to create immersive experiences. Clara has exhibited in multiple group shows in London, Manchester, Brighton, Shanghai, Hastings, Barcelona, Tate Modern and the Saatchi Gallery in London. Clara was awarded the Cass Art Prize 2021 for innovative use of […]
Chloe Charlton, Emily Charlton
Working with the Bolex, sisters Chloe and Emily Charlton use in-camera techniques such as single frame shooting and multiple exposures to explore geological vibrancy and liveliness. They are recipients of the Lateral Lab artists Correspondence collaboration of Autumn ‘22, a project that supported contemporary creative responses to the environment through an ecocentric spirit of exploration […]
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 and one memoir. Sumayya is currently finishing a MLitt in Creative Writing at University of Glasgow followed by the DFA Creative Writing starting October 2024. Sumayya also mentors […]
Rosie Newman
Rosie Newman is a multi-disciplinary artist based in the Highlands of Scotland, working from her studio in The Stables, Cromarty. A graduate of Camberwell School of Art (Sculpture) and UHI Shetland (Social Art Practice), she works across sculpture, photography, performance, painting, and audio to explore mythological themes and the interconnectedness between people and the sea. […]
Lydia Green & Filip Holacky
Lydia Green is a Glasgow based theatre-maker. She writes, directs and produces new work. She is also a lecturer at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is currently directing Into the Woods for Perth Theatre and Noisemaker’s Snow Queen for The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Junior Performance Department. She has worked in South Korea with […]
Julie Kennedy
Julie Kennedy is a writer and teacher, highly commended in the recent 2022 Ledbury Poetry Competition. During her residency at Cove park, she hopes to finishing the final edit of an e-book of her first novel. She received a Scottish Government funded Scottish Publication Award in 2022 for this e-book project.
Laura Lightbody & Kerry McGhee
Laura Lightbody is a ceramic artist based in Glasgow producing bold and contemporary functional ceramic pieces. The items that Laura slip cast are simple, geometric forms with surface pattern that is derived from motifs and graphics from the everyday. Each piece is designed, produced and decorated by hand ensuring each form is individual. Alongside a […]
Paria Goodarzi
Paria Goodarzi is an Iranian-born artist and social art practitioner, a member of UNESCO RILA Affiliated Artist network, and The Young Academy of Scotland. Paria studied BA(Hons) in Textile Design from the University of Science & Culture in Tehran, Sculpture & Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art, and Master of Adult Education, Community Development […]
Haleh Jamali
Haleh Jamali is an Iranian artist, who views video art as a storytelling tool that creates immersive experiences that resonate deeply with viewers’ emotions. Passionate about exploring themes of identity and societal issues, Haleh wants to challenge stereotypes and misconceptions about Iranian culture, while also shedding light on the challenges and complexities faced by individuals […]
Oleksandra Novatska
Oleksandra Novatska is an artist and curator from Lviv, Ukraine, now living in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. She works mainly with watercolor and pencil, adding other materials and techniques where a project requires them. Last year, Oleksandra held a solo exhibition entitled ‘Faraway. From Ukraine to UK – A Tribute‘ in Dumfries, which then travelled to […]
Alison Grant
Alison Grant is a visual artist and community facilitator based in Edinburgh. Her work explores ways to create space for contemplation, introspection, connection and dialogue with our home and our place and relationships with the ecosystems that sustain us. Recent projects include 11,000 miles an Ocean facing research project and Drawing Down the Sun, a […]
Emily Beaney
Emily Beaney is an artist and researcher working with moving image. Her practice-based research seeks to communicate through the filmic body experiences of embodied difference and collective care. Centring upon narratives that may be difficult to articulate, the unseen / unheard, she utilises experimental and collaborative approaches to filmmaking to work with family, communities, artists, […]
Tamsin MacArthur
Tamsin MacArthur is a multi-media artist based in Glasgow and a recent graduate of Sculpture and Environmental art from the Glasgow School of Art. Her work explores dialogues between belief and the ‘actual’, and action and reaction, frequently working in response to spiritual and mythological ideas within the framework of an increasingly nihilistic western modernity. […]
Live Performance Bazaar
‘We, the Landscape Research & Residency Project’, is a new programme from Live Performance Bazaar (Prague, Czech Republic). It brings together artists, arts managers, producers, and scientists with the aim of inspiring creativity and innovation to protect and restore nature, and to connect artistic and scientific communities through conversations across Central Europe and beyond. This […]
Genevieve Dawson
Genevieve Dawson is a songwriter-composer, performer, and community music worker originally from Edinburgh and now based in London. Her work weaves together elements of folk, jazz, choral and electronic textures. Her debut album was championed by BBC 6 Music and Jazz FM, and featured on Guy Garvey’s finest hour. Her most recent release what’s mine […]
Sekai Machache
Sekai Machache (she/they) is a Zimbabwean-Scottish visual artist, film-maker and curator based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self, in which photography plays a crucial role in supporting an exploration of the historical and cultural imaginary. Aspects of her photographic practice are formulated through digital studio-based compositions utilising […]
Callum McSorley
Callum McSorley is a writer based in Glasgow whose short stories have appeared in Gutter Magazine, Monstrous Regiment and New Writing Scotland. His debut novel Squeaky Clean (2023) – inspired by his years working at a car wash in Glasgow’s East End – garnered praise from the likes of Chris Brookmyre, Peter James and Kevin […]
Violaine Barrois
Cove Park’s fourth residency through the partnership programme Magnetic Residencies has been awarded to the Marseille-based artist Violaine Barrois. Violaine Barrois’ practice explores the relationship between humans and nature. Educated at the École Supérieure de Design de Marseille (ESDM), and at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Barrois combines her academic background and experiences from […]
Yambe Tam & Albert Barbu
Yambe Tam and Albert Barbu are a visual artist and creative technologist duo based between London and Paris. They create virtual worlds that speculate on the past, present, and future of consciousness by combining digital technology, gaming, and spiritual practice. Their interdisciplinary approach is inspired by the liminal space between scientific and spiritual, drawing upon […]
Liam Bell
Liam Bell is author of four novels, most recently The Sleepless (2023) and Man at Sea (2022). He is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling and is coming to Cove Park to work on a non-fiction project on rejection across the creative arts, as well as his next fiction project.
Emily Munro
Emily Munro (she/her) is a writer and filmmaker based in Glasgow whose work explores our ambivalent relationship/s to the past and future in the Anthropocene. Thematically, she is often concerned with energy use and extraction, the correspondence and dichotomies between plants, plastics, humans and the cosmos, nostalgic viewpoints on the Pyrocene, archival re-use, and speculative […]
Eva Oosterlaken
Eva Oosterlaken (she/her) is a Rotterdam-based social designer and researcher. In 2020 she founded creative studio Futurall, together with London-based designer and foresight practitioner Finn Strivens. Futurall develops creative approaches to involve more people in shaping the future: whether that’s through bringing diverse voices into decision-making, creating spaces for place-based imagination, or creating meaningful opportunities […]
Peggy Riley
Peggy Riley is a playwright, author and lecturer in creative writing. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for prizes including Bridport and the Costa Short Story Award, and she has written for publications including Elle and The Wall Street Journal. Her first novel is Amity & Sorrow. She was a writer-on-attachment at Soho Theatre, and […]
Stark Holborn
Stark Holborn is a novelist and games writer from Bristol. She is the author of the Factus Sequence, the Triggernometry series, and the groundbreaking digital serial, Nunslinger. Stark’s fiction challenges established genre tropes and has been praised as “splendidly inclusive and innovative sci-fi” by Joanne Harris and “witty and atmospheric” by The Guardian. Stark’s fiction […]
Laima Vincé Sruoginis
Laima Vincė Sruoginis earned a PhD in Humanities from Vilnius University, an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of New Hampshire, a BA in English and German Literature from Rutgers University. She has been awarded two Fulbright grants, a National Endowment for the Arts in Literature, the PEN […]
Katie Hodgetts
Katie Hodgetts FRSA, named the Conduit’s Young Climate Innovator (2023) and a Global Youth Awards Finalist for empowering young people (2018) has extensive experience in how to drive internal and external change. She has coordinated teams of youth and physically mobilised over 80,000 people for climate action during her roles as UK Youth Climate Coalition […]
Lesley Hart
Lesley Hart is a writer and actor with over 20 years experience working in theatre, film, TV and radio drama. In 2023 Lesley’s adaptation of Anna Karenina premiered at the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. Other recent projects include writing for Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Bristol Old Vic theatre, A Play, A Pie & A Pint, and […]
Bartelijntje Buys
Bartelijntje Buys is a field biologist with the University of Ghent, Belgium. Her research – involving bears, wolves, ground squirrels, birds, chimpanzees, cetaceans, and marine nematodes – explores how ecology, behavioural biology, policy and conservation interact with each other. She believes in the resilience of nature, of which humans play a part. She respects the […]
Rema Grace & Dave Crossley
Rema Grace and Dave Crossley are co-founders of Mycelium Thinking CIC, a not-for-profit arts company nurturing an emergent field the ‘mycelial arts and humanities’. Their arts-led inquiry works with the rich metaphors of fungi, incorporating community arts, cross-disciplinary entanglements, and land-based artivism. Their research is particularly inspired by underground mycorrhizal networks — a vast world-wide […]
Carl Gent
Carl Gent is an artist and writer from Bexhill-on-sea. They have exhibited their sculptures, songs, vehicles and printouts at Deptford X, Café Oto, Badischer Kunstverein, Istituto Svizzero, Flatland Projects, the De La Warr Pavilion, ICA, Somerset House, Goldsmiths CCA, Wysing Arts Centre, KELDER, Jupiter Woods and the Museum of English Rural Life. Felon Herb, an […]
Winter 2024
Cat Auburn
Cat Auburn is an artist from Aotearoa New Zealand based in Argyll. Her art practice (sculpture, textile, film, event, and writing) focuses on how cultural heritage is constructed, reinforced, and strategically employed. Artistic ‘making’ is how she explores complex interrelational dynamics between ‘self’ and ‘culture’, local and global, policymaking and those subject to policy. The […]
Rodge Glass
Rodge Glass is the author of eight books published since 2005: three novels (No Fireworks, Hope for Newborns & Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs), one graphic novel (Dougie’s War, with Dave Turbitt), one collection of short stories (Stories for the EasyJet Generation), two biographies (Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography & Michel Faber: The […]
Csilla Toldy
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Csilla Toldy was awarded a 3-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support 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 […]
Matilda Bevan
Matilda Bevan is a painter living in North East England. She studied at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford (1975-1978) and completed a Turps Correspondence Course in 2019. Her new paintings open to possibilities of expression in textures of paint on the surface, and aim to reveal tonal resonance through relationships of colour. […]
Quincy Grant
Quincy Grant is a freelance composer and musician based in Adelaide/Tandanya, South Australia. He has written and performed music for the theatre, working with companies such as Slingsby, Flying Penquin, Circa, Brink Productions, Queensland Theatre, and State Theatre Company South Australia, and has toured extensively to the USA, UK, Japan and Ireland. He writes for […]
Clara & Miranda Gillam Grant
Clara Gillam Grant is an emerging cellist and singer-songwriter from Adelaide/Tandanya, Australia. Clara is interested in intergeneric works, and developing a fluid understanding of classical, folk and contemporary practices. Clara has played cello with the Adelaide and Australian Youth Orchestras, local Australian pop, folk, and improvisation projects, Womad Festival, and in theatre shows in Australia […]
Solasta Lucky McIntyre
Solasta Lucky McIntyre is an interdisciplinary creative, somatic educator and psychotherapist at Sir With Sol Therapy. His current artistic practice is focused on writing memoir and screenplay, researching mixed gaelic-celtic ancestry, and multi-media documentary of their life as an autistic polyamorous bi-gender lesbian recovering from cptsd. He writes the What’s Healing Me Lately weekly on […]
Hadley Hammer
From growing up at the base of the Tetons in Jackson Hole, Wyoming to becoming a professional skier traveling the globe for big mountain expeditions and competitions, Hadley prefers to explore with skis on her feet. Since she debuted in the Freeride World Tour at age 25-‘old’ for most competitors, she’s gone on to star […]
Sarah Robinson
Sarah Robinson is an Irish born, Edinburgh-based visual artist. Her multimedia work encapsulates an intensely personal journey of self exploration. A major catalyst for her recent work has been undertaking full time study and training as an arts psychotherapist. Employing a psychodynamic approach, themes include embracing the process of transition and transformation, delving into both […]
Katie Molyneaux Brooks
Katie Molyneaux Brooks is an artist and potter based in Dunbar, East Lothian. Having grown up on Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland she has a strong connection to the sea. Katie employs a mixed media approach, blending paint and dynamic mark-making techniques to create layered, evocative pieces that reflect Scotland’s scenery. Her work often showcases […]
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 […]
Elle Nash
Elle Nash is the author of the novels Deliver Me (Unnamed Press, 2023 and Verve Books, 2024), Gag Reflex (Clash Books, 2022), and Animals Eat Each Other (Dzanc Books, 2018 and 404 Ink, 2019), which was featured in the 2018 June Reading Room of O – The Oprah Magazine and hailed by Publishers Weekly as a ‘complex, impressive exploration of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Summer 2024
Luis M S Santos
We are delighted to be one of three international residecies hosting awardees of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize. This international prize was created by the City of Porto, Portugal, in tribute to its late Councillor for Culture Paulo Cunha e Silva (1962 – 2015), a central figure for the city’s artistic life. The […]
Sam Kilday
The Argyll Heritage Craft Residency is a new fully funded residency for an Argyll-based maker. Contemporary craft and design have been key aspects of Cove Park’s annual residency programme since 2000 and many of the participating makers have employed traditional craft processes, materials, designs, and techniques in the production of their work. However, this is […]
Jane Keith
The Maker/Designer Residency supports a Scotland-based maker or designer aged 50+ and is made possible with generous support from the Turtleton Charitable Trust. Following a call for applications, the 2024 residency has been awarded to Jane Keith. Originally from Edinburgh, Jane comes from a family of artists and studied printed textiles at Duncan of Jordanstone […]
Nikhil Vettukattil
As part of the Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA) residency exchange programme, NAARCA commissioned artist Nikhil Vettukattil will be in residence at Cove Park for four weeks following residencies at Narsaq International Research Station and Artica Svalbard. While at Cove Park, Nikhil will continue developing ‘Cantina‘ – a new body of […]
Jere Vainio
Finnish artist Jere Vainio is the recipient of the 2024 Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency. This four-month residency is the third in a four year programme developed by the Academy of Fine Arts Uniarts Helsinki, Cove Park and Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW). Each resident has the opportunity to work at Cove Park for 8 weeks […]
Matthew Arthur Williams
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Matthew Arthur Williams was awarded a 6-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support 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 […]
Marcus Richardson
Marcus (they/them) is a theatre maker. Their practice leads them to direct, perform, and write. Their work often centres around autoethnography and autobiography to explore the multiplicity of identities that we as individuals possess. They seek to create work that explores the complex relationships, not just between characters, but also the performer and the audience. […]
Andy Holden
Andy Holden (b. 1982 Bedford, U.K) is an artist whose work comprises large installations, sculpture, painting, pop music, performance, animation, curating and multi-screen-videos. His work is often defined by very personal starting points, used to arrive at more abstract philosophical questions, and is often deliberately disjunctive, employing subtle irony, and using one subject matter as […]
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 […]
Ayisha Malik
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Ayisha Malik was awarded a 3-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support 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 […]
Maria de Lima
Maria de Lima is a Brazilian-British artist currently based in Glasgow, working across video, installation and painting. She approaches video through a feminist lens to explore the many value systems embedded in language. Focusing on translation between Portuguese and English, she explores how the legacy of colonialism and its resistance leaves traces through the words […]
Susan Sanders-Rosenberg
Susan Sanders-Rosenberg is a visual artist and art facilitator based in Dallas, Texas. A graduate of Columbia University, with a post-baccalaureate certificate in painting from The Art Institute of Chicago, she holds an MFA in painting from Meadows School of Art. Working with ideas of transformation and possibility, Susan has an ongoing interest in obliquely […]
Tara Hipwood
Tara Hipwood is a Chartered Architect and an Assistant Professor in Sustainable and Environmental Design in the Department of Architecture at Northumbria University. Tara’s research interests focus around the intersections between occupant wellbeing, the built environment, and the natural environment – and perhaps most importantly where the distinction between these elements breaks down. Tara’s Ph.D. […]
Anna Rhodes
Anna Rhodes is a lecturer in landscape architecture at Edinburgh College of Art, a landscape architect and artist. Through her practice-based research and teaching, Anna promotes the importance of reading a place through immersive fieldwork. Drawing is key to her field research and is a tool to appreciate environmental forces as well as the complex […]
Heather Parry
Heather Parry is a Glasgow-based author and editor. She is the editorial director of Extra Teeth magazine and co-created the Illustrated Freelancer’s Guide with artist Maria Stoian. She has published both fiction and nonfiction, and her next novel, Carrion Crow, will be released in Feb 2025.
Cho Eun Phil
Now in its second year, Cove Park is delighted to partner once again with the Busan Cultural Foundation to provide a four-week residency for a South Korean artist. Following an application process, we are pleased to announce the recipient of this residency is Cho Eun-Phil. After majoring in sculpture in the Department of Fine Arts […]
Loretta Mulholland
Loretta is studying for a PhD in English at Dundee University. Using literary techniques and extracts from Bird’s work she is writing a series of creative non-fiction essays which explore themes such as landscape, solitariness, and creativity; truth, memory and marginal voices, and the literary value of the epistolatory form. Loretta has been published in […]
RCS CPP 2024 Graduates
We are delighted to expand our partnership with The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and offer a special group residency for the 2024 graduates of the Contemporary Performance Practice programme. Every summer since 2021, Cove Park has hosted one recent graduate of the CPP programme including Sally Charlton, Nell O’Hara, and Margot Conde Arenas. This year, […]
Saturn Akin
Saturn Akin is a Glasgow-based multidisciplinary artist, working across performance, adornment making, 3D, and photography. Their art practice revolves around the conjuration of their own identity (NB/Trans) and is driven by the creation, deconstruction, and reconstruction of adornments, 3D objects and still-lifes. Through this intricate and generative process, Saturn Akin explores themes of transness, body […]
Tuna Erdem
Tuna Erdem is a queer artist and writer from Turkey, based in London. She is a founding member of Istanbul Queer Art Collective, where she has been performing since 2012. Her artistic work takes many forms ranging from live art to sound and video art but her practice is always related to text and lived […]
Elisabeth den Boer
Elisabeth den Boer is a visual artist. She was born and raised in the Netherlands and after a long period spent in the Austrian alps, now lives in West Sussex. She graduated with an MA from the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts (2021), specialising in traditional methods and materials. She has previously trained as a […]
Virginia Grose
Virginia Grose is the Head of Fashion at the University of Westminster – School of Arts with a background in fashion and product development in the UK fashion industry. Having worked many years with Courtaulds Testiles on many fashion product times, Virginia developed an interest in cashmere knitwear. She has worked closely with textile and […]
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 […]
Justin Carter
Cove Park’s Associates programme is a membership programme for former residents, offering new fully-funded residencies, events, and networking opportunities to ensure we can continue to support residents over a longer period of time. The Associates Visual Artist Residency is for a visual artist and Cove Park Associate based in Scotland and aged 50+. It is […]
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 […]
Billie Willett
Billie Willett is a queer, autistic playwright, dramaturg, and occasional performer fascinated with horror. Currently based in Stockholm, they started their writing journey in Edinburgh. In 2017, she graduated from Queen Margaret University and immediately went on to co-found the horror company Nevermore Theatre. With them, she wrote the plays EH16: Pyre and Suppose There […]
Lesley McIntyre
Lesley McIntyre is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Northumbria University, Newcastle. She is fascinated by the mystery of ‘what has gone before’ and driven to uncover and map the hidden histories and narratives of the sites she encounters. This has led her to develop a creative practice in exploring fragments of context, people, place, […]
Niamh Gordon
Niamh Gordon (she/her) is a writer and interdisciplinary researcher. She has an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia, and is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing and Narrative Studies at the University of Glasgow, where she has taught courses on poetry and poetics, experimental writing, and writing the body. […]
Zoe Lafferty
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Zoe Lafferty was awarded an 8-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support 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 […]
Articulate
Articulate was established in 2017 to make sure children with care experience can have a positive childhood. Their purpose is to improve the lives of the young people by scaffolding their innate curiosity and creativity. They provide direct support through the arts for well-being, to build skills and give a voice and platform to those […]
Yvonne Hardman
Yvonne Hardman is the Head of Collections & Programmes at Leeds Museums & Galleries, a large local authority-run museum service, which runs eight venues across the city and cares for 1.3 million objects. Part of Yvonne’s role is to manage the organisation’s Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation programme alongside leading a team of subject-specialist […]
Dirck Backer and Maria Myrgård
Dirck Backer and Maria Myrgård are theater makers and performing artists from Denmark. They are working as both directors and actors. In about 40 years they have been producing theatre in their own touring theatre Teater Patrasket, mainly with theatre for children and their adults. They want to create theater from the heart, to touch […]
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 and one memoir. Sumayya is currently finishing a MLitt in Creative Writing at University of Glasgow followed by the DFA Creative Writing starting October 2024. Sumayya also mentors […]
Sarah Kudirka
Sarah Kudirka is a visual artist fascinated by the shapes and edges of things. She paints on linen, instant film and found objects, and draws in pencil and ink. “You know when you find something in your pocket that you’d picked up then forgot? Familiar but unknown, a wee treasure, your fingers feel around its […]
