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 made possible with generous support from the Turtleton Charitable Trust. The 2024 residency has been awarded to the Glasgow-based artist Justin Carter.

Justin’s work explores place, landscape and the potential impacts of the climate crisis. He has exhibited work and developed projects throughout the UK and Europe, as well as in Japan, China, Australia and the United States. His research is an attempt to understand the natural environment we are part of. The resulting artworks are an attempt to make this connection tangible. Justin is interested in exploring the extent to which the artist can work with the landscape moving towards a non-human perspective.

Justin has been awarded numerous international residencies including Arteleku (Spain), Grizedale, Tate Liverpool, Berwick Gymnasium, Outlandia and Joya (Spain). Within Higher Education he has over twenty years’ experience in different areas of teaching and research. In his current role as Reader in Contemporary Practice; Art & Environment at Glasgow School of Art, he has supported student projects at undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD level.

Reflecting on his experience of Cove Park, Justin writes:

‘I was fortunate enough to be among the first group of artists and writers to be awarded a residency at Cove Park in 2000. It was a fantastic experience being part of a small creative community, sharing perspectives and creating new work in response to a very unique landscape and environment. Now, almost 25 years later I‘m excited to return to Cove Park once again, to see how much things have changed.

Whilst remaining open to fresh possibilities and stimuli I’m keen to extend my current approach to making which is deeply connected to the landscape. I envisage spending half of my time pursuing known methods and materials, and the other half allowing myself to be more open and speculative in my approach.’

Image: Justin Carter, ‘Beings without a world’ (2021), Broken Hill, Australia. Digital prints on cotton. (Image credit Allan Giddy).