This two-week residency, has been created through the generous support of an anonymous donor, specifically to support a crafts person in the design and creation of new work.

Josh Bitelli is a product designer and a recent graduate from the Design & Craft BA at University of Brighton. He makes research based work which responds to a place and the resources and skills that he finds there.

At Cove Park Bitelli intends to use the location, its history, industries and materials to be the catalyst for a new body of work.

Born 1989, in Leeds, Josh Bitelli lives and works in London & Wiltshire. He received a BA (Hons) in Design & Craft from the University of Brighton in 2012. Since graduating he has been awarded the Freshair Apprenticeship  Bursary and an internship with furniture designer Fred Baier. He is represented by Gallery FUMI.

His practice centres around the translation of research gathered from a given site into crafted objects. The history or provenance of a place becomes the foundations for an experimental de-coding, a type of story telling that narrates how things work, the people involved and the materiality of things.