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

Niamh Gordon

Niamh Gordon is a writer and interdisciplinary researcher from Manchester, based in Glasgow. She has an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia, and is in the final year of a PhD in Creative Writing and Narrative Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her research is funded by the AHRC and explores […]

Summer Micro Residency

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

Gem Kinley

Gem Kinley (she/her) is a recent graduate of BA (Hons) Contemporary Performance Practice from the RCS as part of the Transitions Programme, which looks to bring down barriers that may prevent people from accessing the arts. During her studies, she devised work that combined contemporary performance, music, writing, voice, and community. Gem is a vocalist, […]

Music Space 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

Hormi

Hormi Chen is the author of the novel Lake Bone, the novella Family in Water, and co-author of 100 Keywords in Literature. Hormi has received the China Times Literary Award, Taipei Literature Award, Jianzhen Environmental Literature Award, New Taipei City Literature Award, Zhong Zhao Zheng Literature Award, and Tainan Literature Award, as well as creative grants […]

Taiwanese Writer 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

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