
Melanie Counsell
The Visual Arts Creative Development programme, funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation supported established visual artists, makers, designers, curators and critical writers. Each individual was awarded a six-week residency and the opportunity to develop new work at Cove Park.
In 2009, residencies under this programme were awarded to visual artists Melanie Counsell, Kit Craig, Gemma Holt and Ciara Phillips and curators/art writers Bart van der Heide, Moira Jeffrey and Mark Sladen.
Melanie Counsell (born 1964), lives and works in London and has been exhibiting work nationally and internationally for twenty years. She makes sculpture, much of it site-specific or site-generated, and often incorporating film. Her intention is to produce a new body of work within the environment at Cove Park and use the opportunity to pursue some particular Scottish areas of interest, such as the work of film maker Margaret Tait.