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

Catrin Kemp

Catrin Kemp (she/her) is an emerging writer and award-winning creative producer. Her writing intersects matrescence, identity, grief and midlife, aiming to give voice to modern-day interior experiences seen through a darkly comic female lens. Her short fiction and poetry have been published by Speculative Books and Motherlore Magazine and she regularly performs her work to […]

Associates Autumn Micro Residency

Jo Birch

Jo Birch is unfolding and developing as a photographer and videographer. As a psychotherapist, Jo has supported many people to navigate the challenges of life through the therapeutic use of visual imagery. She recently found her own delight in creating images, especially monochrome photography, and storytelling through street photography and film. This residency will strip […]

Associates Open Residency

David Osbaldeston

David Osbaldeston is a British artist who works across properties of collage, painting and fine print to produce a material outcome best termed collectively as ‘flat sculpture’. His work is often made to interfere with relationships between images and the poetic variables associated with language used to describe them. This is done through a thematic […]

Associates Autumn Micro Residency

Julie Kennedy

Julie Kennedy is a writer and teacher. She writes poetry and fiction. Her poems have been published in poetry magazines including Propel. Poetry Society Newsletter and Causeway Cabhsair. Her work was been commended in the Poetry Society Stanza Competition and the Ledbury Poetry Competition. During this residency, Julie will continue to work on her second […]

Open Residencies

Demelza Kingston

Demelza Kingston is a Glasgow-based artist working in photography and moving image. Reactivating expired and obsolete materials and working with low-toxicity methods including plant-based photographic developers, Demelza works in the (un)natural landscape around her, considering themes of human – more-than-human relationships, time and traces and politics of land, botany and medicine. Having worked with homegrown […]

Associates Open Residency

Elaine Webster

Elaine Webster is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work centres on the ways in which human rights-based thinking can influence the way we understand, talk about, and act in ways that protect dignity and promote relationships of care. Her work explores the journey from interpreting legal human rights standards to implementing them in practice from diverse […]

Open Residency

Claire Cunningham

Claire Cunningham  is a performer and creator of multi-disciplinary performances, based in Glasgow. One of the UK’s most acclaimed and internationally renowned disabled artists, her work is rooted in the study of Crip & disabled experience, practices of care and questioning societal ideas of knowledge and value. She is the Einstein Professor of “Choreography, Dance […]

Open Residency

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

Aaron Goddard

Aaron Goddard is an artist born in Romford, Essex. Now based in Glasgow, Scotland. His current PhD research asks how critical attunements to the unseen and unheard can present holes in dominant forms of representation and legibility. These questions form the basis of a sustained engagement with writing and filmmaking practices which situate the proximal […]

Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities

Barbara Crawford

Virginia artist, Barbara Crawford, has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her current work includes one-day, site specific installations that result in individual videos. The series of world amphitheatres includes Teatro Andromeda, Sicily, The Ancient Roman Theatre, Orange France, Red Rocks, Denver, Colorado and Crawick Multiverse, Scotland. Another series of world genebanks includes the Svalbard Global […]

Open 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 […]

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