Archive

Explore our individual and group residencies from 2000 to the present day. The Archive is a work in progress and we welcome contributions in the form of audio and video documentation, photographs, and testimonials from our former residents. This page features a changing selection of past residencies, and visitors can search for entries via the resident’s name, practice, the type and title of the residency, and the year.

Featured Residencies from the Archive

ektor garcia

ektor garcia lives and works in Mexico City and New York City. Working primarily in sculpture, he has described his practice as ‘An exploration of materials, craft techniques, experiments and failures. Lately, crochet, sewing, ceramics, drawing and welding all factor in and coexist in unusual compositions.’ At Cove Park, ektor will continue to develop these […]

International Visual Arts

Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo was born in 1973 in China and comes from a family of sea lovers. Her grandfather was a fisherman, her father was sent to a labour camp in the 60s because he wanted to paint the sea instead of being a farmer. At 19 she left her hometown and studied at Beijing Film […]

Jerwood Creative Catalysts

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 […]

Emerging Visual Artist Residency

Graham Eatough

Graham Eatough is a writer and theatre director. Recent projects include adapting and directing the cult Scottish novel, This is Memorial Device for The Lyceum Theatre and Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2022 which won a Fringe First, and the multi-disciplinary project, Floating Worlds: Erraid Sound, made on island of Mull during the Covid 19 […]

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Academia Any Artform Architecture Choreography Composition Craft Dance Design Digital Fashion Film Food Interior Architecture/Design Landscape Architecture Literature Moving Image Multidisciplinary Music Participatory Practice Performance Theatre Translation Visual Arts

Artist(s)

Title

Year

Residencies

Artforms

2025

Catherine Simpson

The Bridge Awards Residency

Design Literature

Subsidised Winter Residency

Subsidised Winter Residency

Winter Writers Residency

Literature Theatre

Winter Writers Residency

Kaljeven Singh Lally

Winter Writers Residency

Film Literature

Katherine Buchanan

Subsidised Winter Residency

Subsidised Winter Residency

Literature Visual Arts

Leilani Taneus-Miller

Winter Writers Residency

Literature Theatre

Subsidised Winter Residency

Literature Multidisciplinary Theatre

Subsidised Winter Residency

Subsidised Winter Residency

Meghan Flaherty

Subsidised Winter Residencies

Rebecca Kathryn Sharp

Subsidised Winter Residency

Winter Writers Residency

Film Literature Theatre

Winter Writers Residency

Literature Theatre

Winter Writers Residency

Taiwanese Writer Residency

2024

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Alison Woodhouse

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Creative Residencies for Carers

Associates Residency

Awarded Residency

Brooke Robinson

Cove Park / Varuna Residency Exchange Programme

Callum McSorley

Loch Long Crime Writing Residency

Loch Long Crime Writing Residency

Catrin Kemp & Chitra Ramaswamy

The New Mothers’ Writing Circle Micro Residency

Edinburgh International Book Festival Residency

Awarded Residency

Digital Literature Translation

Autumn Micro Residencies

Film Literature

Winter Subsidised Residencies

From Arthur's Seat

From Arthur’s Seat Residency

Hanna Thomas Uose

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Research Residency

Literature Translation

Rhubaba Residency

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Kirsty Crawford

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Laima Vincé Sruoginis

Autumn Micro Residencies

Loretta Mulholland

Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities

Moria McPartlin

The Bridge Awards Residency

Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities

Academia Literature

Literature Theatre

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Scarlett Sangster

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Taiwanese Writer Residency

Digital Literature

Autumn Micro Residencies

Open Residencies 2024

Literature Translation

2023

Associates Subsidised Residency

Spring Micro Residencies

Associates Artists in Schools

Awarded Residency

Literature Translation

Associates Subsidised Residency

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Annette Weisser

Literature Visual Arts

Caroline Brothers

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Catherine Spencer

Academia Literature

Claudia Berghorn

Spring Micro Residencies

Clementine Burnley

Elmira Elvazova

Farah Abdessamad

Young Gaelic Writer Residency

Spring Micro Residencies

Playwrights’ Studio Scotland

Literature Performance

Awarded Residency

Cove Park / Varuna the National Writers’ House Residency Exchange

Justin Armstrong

Kathryn (Kechi) Nwajiaku-Dahou

Awarded Residency

Literature Translation

Kirsty Crawford

Awarded Residency

Kristina Marie Darling

Literature Translation

Laura Muetzelfeldt

Migration and Racialisation Residency

Academia Literature

NAARCA Residency at Saari Residence

Literature Translation

Migration and Racialisation Residency

Academia Literature Translation

Sarah Krasnostein

Edinburgh International Book Festival Residencies

Associates Early Career Residency

Food Literature

Sophie Cunningham

Edinburgh International Book Festival Residencies

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

Literature Translation

Wang-ling Shieh

Taiwanese Writer Residency

William Keohane

Awarded Residency

2022

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Claire-Louise Bennett

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Eric Chi-Puo Lin

Taiwanese Writers Residency

Farah Abdessamad

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Feminism Art Maintenance

Kitchen Conversations Residency

James Gaywood & Eric Langley

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Associates Residency

Lauren Dyer Amazeen

Research Residency

Cove Park / Varuna Residency Exchange

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Young Gaelic Writer

Cove Park / Varuna Residency Exchange

Awarded Residency

Literature Translation

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Thomas A. Clark

Birkbeck / Sophie Warne Fellowship

Awarded Residency

Taiwanese Writers Residency

Literature Visual Arts

2021

Independent Residency

Scottish Emerging Writer

Scottish Emerging Writer

Independent Residency

Scottish Emerging Writer

Taiwanese Writer

Birkbeck / Sophie Warne Fellowship

Literature Performance

Independent Residency

Laurence Estanove

Independent Residency

Independent Residency

Literature Multidisciplinary

Independent Residency

Independent Residency

Ivan Juritz Prize

Patrick Langley

Independent Residencies

Sarah Urwin Jones

Scottish Emerging Writer

Scottish Emerging Writer

Independent Residency

Scottish Emerging Writer

2020

Lawrence Illsley

Birkbeck / Sophie Warne Fellowship

Scottish Emerging Writer Residency

2019

Catherine Woodward

Ivan Juritz Prize Residency

Women’s Poetry Prize Residency

Roanna Gonsalves

Cove Park / Varuna Residency Exchange

Victoria MacKenzie

Cove Park / Varuna Residency Exchange

2018

Annalena McAfee

Scottish Literature Residency

Shola von Reynolds

Scottish Emerging Writer

2017

BBC Writersroom

BBC Writersroom

Gemma Elwin Harris

Birkbeck/Sophie Warne Fellow

Heather O'Neill

International Literature

Wystke Veersteeg

International Literature

2016

2015

International Literature Residency

Martin MacInnes

Scottish Emerging Writer Residency

Rebecca Loncraine

Literature Residency

UK Emerging Writer Residency

Literature Residency

2014

Royal Holloway Emerging Writer Fellowship

UK Literature Residency

International Literature Residency

Scottish Literature Residency

Laura Tapsfield

Birkbeck / Sophie Warne Fellow at Cove Park

Louise Welsh & Jude Barber

Empire Cafe at Cove Park

UK Literature Residency

Michael Pedersen

Scottish Literature Residency

Millicent Graham

International Literature Residency

Scottish Literature Residency

Vicky MacKenzie

Scottish Emerging Writer Residency

2013

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

Birkbeck Writing Masterclass

Birkbeck Writing Masterclass

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

International Writer Residency

Birkbeck / Sophie Warne Writing Fellowship

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

UK Literature Residency

Scottish Literature Residency

UK Literature Residency

UK Literature Residency

Scottish Literature Residency

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

UK Literature Residency

Jerwood Creative Catalysts

UK Literature Residency

Royal Holloway Writing Fellow

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

UK Literature Residency

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

Jerwood Creative Catalysts

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

Scottish Literature Residency

2012

Alison Turnbull

Alison Turnbull & Phillip Hoare: Research Residency

Literature Visual Arts

Writers of the African Commonwealth Residency

Scottish Writer Residency

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

Ellen Banda-Aaku

Writers of the African Commonwealth Residency

Gerry Cambridge

Scottish Writer Residency

UK Writer Residency

Writers of the African Commonwealth Residency

Jacqueline Saphra

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

Scottish Writer Residency

International Writer Residency

Michael Kavanagh

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

Russel Celyn Jones

UK Writer Residency

Birkbeck/Sophie Warne Fellowship

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

Syl Cheney Coker

International Writer Residency

2011

Scottish Emerging Writer

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

Awarded Partnership

Creative Scotland/Cove Park Muriel Spark Fellowship

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

Scottish Writer Residency

Donny O’Rourke

Scottish Writer Residency

Gerry Cambridge

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

Jerwood Fuel Theatre

Scottish Writer Residency

Jerwood Creative Catalysts

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

Jerwood Creative Catalysts

Literature Visual Arts

Michael Pedersen

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

International Writer Residency

Birkbeck/Sophie Warne Memorial Emerging Writer

Scottish Writer Residency

Scottish Writer Residency

Freeing the Poet’s Voice

Jerwood Creative Catalysts

Film Literature

2010

Scottish Literature

Christos Tsiolkas

International Literature

SAC Literatiure

Jerwood Fuel Theatre

Natasha Soobramanien

Fielding Programme

2009

Caroline Brothers

Fielding Programme

Jerwood Fuel Theatre

Fielding Programme

Patron Residency

Scottish Literature

Jerwood Fuel Theatre

Javier Alvarado

International Literature

Fielding Programme

Fielding Programme

Scottish Literature

Malene Engelund

Fielding Programme

Fielding Programme

Scottish Literature

Fielding Programme

Fielding Programme

Fielding Programme

Suzanne Dracius

International Literature

2008

Anzhelina Polonskaya

International Literature

Aonghas MacNeacail

Poet-to-Poet/Guth Le Guth

Diarmuid Johnson

Poet-to-Poet/Guth Le Guth

George Anderson

Iain S. MacPherson

Poet-to-Poet/Guth Le Guth

Maoilios Caimbeul/Myles Carphell

Poet-to-Poet/Guth Le Guth

Padraig Mac Fhearghusa

Poet-to-Poet/Guth Le Guth

Rob MacilleChiar

Poet-to-Poet/Guth Le Guth

Poet-to-Poet/Guth Le Guth

Scottish Literature

Stephen Thompson

Poet-to-Poet/Guth Le Guth

2007

Poet to Poet Translation

Poet to Poet Translation

Poet to Poet Translation

Debo Oluwatuminu

Jerwood – Conflict Zone Theatre

Geetanjali Shree

SAC International Literature

Jessica Parkinson

SAC Scottish Literature

Poet to Poet Translation

Poet to Poet Translation

Poet to Poet Translation

Poet to Poet Translation

Poet to Poet Translation

2006

Choreographic Development

Margaret Atwood

SAC Muriel Spark International Fellowship

SAC International Literature

2005

SAC International Literature

Poetry in Translation

Poetry in Translation

Poetry in Translation

Poetry in Translation

Poetry in Translation

Poetry in Translation

SAC International Literature

Poetry in Translation

Poetry in Translation

Poetry in Translation

2004

2003

Dundee Contemporary Arts

Scottish Arts Council Literature

2002

Hampstead Theatre

Jerwood Creative & Critical Writer

Hampstead Theatre

Jerwood Creative & Critical Writer

Jerwood Creative & Critical Writer

Stephen Carruthers

Stephen Carruthers

2001

Hampstead Theatre

Janice Galloway

Arts Commentary

Battersea Arts Centre

Battersea Arts Centre

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