February 2026 Associates News & Updates
Argyll Beacon Film Commission, Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations, Rachel McBrinn & Alison Scott, 2022
Cove Park’s Associates programme is now comprised of 361 members! Read on for news and updates from members based in Scotland and beyond.
- City as a Spaceship included in group exhibition, Amphibian Aesthetics*, at Ishara House at Kashi Hallegua House in Kochi, Kerala, now – 31 March 2026.
- Sayan Chanda’s solo exhibition, How Many Fires, How Many Suns, How Many Dawns?*, at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea in England, 14 February – 31 May 2026. The 6th Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kochi, now – 31 March 2026.
- Tracy Fahey’s next collection, Queens of the Crone Age*, written at Cove Park last winter will be published by PS Publishing later this year. Her last collection, I Spit Myself Out, won the 2025 Rubery International Book Award.
- Roanna Gonsalves’ The Servants* included in The Australian’s listing of ‘Most Anticipated Books of 2026′

Roanna Gonsalves at Cove Park, 2019 (photography, Alan Dimmick).
- Ilana Halperin’s solo exhibition, What is Us and What is Earth, at Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, 27 February – 17 May 2026.
- Antony Lucchesi’s solo exhibition, Walking Routes, at The Wyllieum in Greenock, 21 February – 31 March 2026.
- Heather Marshall (Writer) of Medusa*, a new show for theatre lovers, ravers, and people searching for queer, disabled community, will play at Summerhall in Edinburgh, 6 – 8 March 2026.

Medusa, Heather Marshall (photography, Tiu Makkonen)
- Rachel McBrinn & Alison Scott’s short film, Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations*, will be included in group exhibition, Where we meet land: environment and ecology in artists’ moving image , at Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, 7 March – 22 March 2026. This work was developed at Cove Park as part of the Argyll Beacon Film Commission.
- Laila Noble appointed as Creative Director, a new role at Ayr Gaiety.
- David Osbaldeston awarded the Abbey Fellowship Award in Painting, British School at Rome, January – March 2026.
- Harriina Räinä’s solo exhibition, Skeletal Earths, Afterlife Waters*, at Galleria G Helsinki, now – 1 March 2026.
- Monya Riachi granted one of the 7 residencies awarded by the Sharjah Art Foundation out of 2,400 submissions.
- David Sherry’s solo exhibition, Sublime review of wrongness: Exhibition of video performance, at Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, now until 15 February 2026.
- Kate Taylor (Producer) and Shonagh Murray (Musical Director) of Ballad Lines*, a new musical playing at Southwark Playhouse Elephant in London until 21 March 2026.

Ballad Lines (photography, Pamela Raith)
If you are an Associate and former resident of Cove Park, you can share your news with us by emailing Alex Marrs (Senior Producer).
*Includes work developed at Cove Park.