Associates

Established in 2021, Cove Park Associates is a membership programme open to all of our former residents, offering ongoing support via fully-funded residencies, paid workshop opportunities, commissions, and public events, discounts on Open Residencies, and invitations to a range of Cove Park events throughout the year. Learn more and join here.

We would like to thank our Founding Associates for their time and advice: Laura Aldridge, Jordan Baseman, Florence Dwyer, Lauren Gault, Ashanti Harris, Ainslie Henderson, Genevieve Herr, Raisa Kabir, Jasleen Kaur, Heiba Lamara, Hope Dickson Leach, Duncan Marquiss, Luke Pell, Ciara Phillips, Oliver Raymond-Barker, James Rigler, David Sherry, Michael Stumpf, and James Thompson.

Associates – stay in touch! Share your news with us by emailing Alex Marrs (Senior Producer) directly and we’re happy to share updates from our Associates on this page and in our monthly Associates Newsletter.

Residencies

Jessica Barnfield

Jessica Barnfield is a fiction writer based in Edinburgh. Her debut novel was Highly Commended in the Bridport Prize Novel Award in 2022, and she has since been shortlisted and longlisted for the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize and the Bath Flash Fiction Award. Her short story ‘Subsidence’ was runner-up in the 2025 Harper’s Bazaar Short […]

Summer Micro Residency

Emily Doolittle

Canadian-born, Glasgow-based composer, researcher, and occasional oboist Emily Doolittle’s music has been described as “masterful” (Musical Toronto), “eloquent and effective,” and “the piece that grabbed me by the heart” (The WholeNote). She has an ongoing interest in zoomusicology—the relationship between animal songs and music—which she explores in both her composition and through interdisciplinary collaboration with […]

Associates Awarded Residency

Bernardo Cubría & Michael John McCarthy

Bernardo Cubría is a Mexican writer. For film, he penned the feature screenplay ‘Copa’ that Eva Longoria is set to direct for SONY and Guerrero which Gina Rodriguez is attached to direct and star in with One Community. He is also currently writing the Untitled Juan Gabriel Biopic that Gaz Alazraki is set to direct […]

Awarded Residency

Jude Barber & Louise Welsh

Jude Barber is an architect and director at Collective Architecture with studios in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee. Together, the team has delivered key projects around the UK that include Glasgow Women’s Library and the City Observatory Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Jude also has specific expertise in strategic planning having co-designed proposals for Granton Waterfront in Edinburgh, […]

Open Residency

Roanna Gonsalves

Roanna Gonsalves is an award-winning writer and educator. She was born and raised in Mumbai, India, and now lives in Sydney, Australia. She was the inaugural recipient of The Bridge Awards’ Varuna – Cove Park Writing Residency 2019. She served on the Board of Writing NSW (2018-2023) and has been a judge / assessor of […]

Open Residency

Susanne Nørregård Nielsen

Susanne Nørregård Nielsen is a Fife-based Danish artist. Susanne is interested in illuminating art works central to the 20th century canon, to provoke new thinking on the impact of artists practice using feminine gendered materiality. Most current work is inspired by the influence of textiles on early 20th century visual art, in particular abstract painting […]

The Bridge Awards Residency

Debjani Banerjee

Debjani Banerjee is an Edinburgh-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans performance, dance, sculpture, textiles, film, and collaborative making. Drawing from her British Bengali heritage, Banerjee explores themes of cultural dissonance, identity, and belonging through a post-colonial lens. Her work reconsiders the complexities of living within and between cultures, interweaving personal narratives with broader questions of […]

Awarded Residency

Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey

Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey are Australian artists who create unexpected situations for listening. They have a long-term highly awarded collaborative practice. Their work is driven by a curiosity about listening in human and non-human ecologies and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences through public and participative interventions. They work with […]

Open Residency

Melissa Joseph

Melissa Joseph is a New York based artist. Her work considers themes of memory, family history, and the politics of how we occupy spaces. She intentionally alludes to the labors of women as well as experiences as a first generation American and the unique juxtapositions of diasporic life. Her work has been shown at the […]

Open Residency

Sumayya Usmani

Sumayya Usmani is a Pakistani author living in Glasgow. She is a Scottish Book Trust Next Chapter Awardee (2021) and the award winning author of two cookbooks, ‘Summers Under the Tamarind Tree’ (2016, Quarto Books) and ‘Mountain Berries and Desert Spice’ (2017, Quarto Books) and one memoir, ‘Andaza: A memoir of food, flavour and finding […]

Open Residency

George Moody

George Moody (they/them) is a Leeds-based artist working across bioart, installation, and sculpture. Their practice is grounded in queer ecology and material-led research, engaging ecological others already in states of collapse. Through foraged plant matter, polluted water, and organic materials prone to decay, they create works that remain entangled with processes of decomposition, mutation, and […]

Open Residency

Natalie Taylor

Natalie Taylor is a Scottish artist currently working with creative landscape interventions, clothing and events to highlight the fragile but vital relationship between our soils, food systems, pollinators and the expanded web of life. Recent exhibitions include: Earth Matters (2026) and Living Soil (2023) both at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh; Earthbound (2025) Bridderhaus, Luxembourg; and […]

Open Residency

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