Emily Beaney is an artist and researcher working with moving image. Her practice-based research seeks to communicate through the filmic body experiences of embodied difference and collective care. Centring upon narratives that may be difficult to articulate, the unseen / unheard, she utilises experimental and collaborative approaches to filmmaking to work with family, communities, artists, […]
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Csilla Toldy was awarded a 3-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and […]
Katie Schwab works with textiles and installation to explore personal, social and material histories of craft, design and education. Her research focuses on twentieth century domestic interiors, civic architecture and play environments. Embedded in the communities and contexts in which she works, Katie’s long-term projects incorporate collaborative workshops, archival research and craft- based learning. Katie […]
Callum McSorley is a writer based in Glasgow whose short stories have appeared in Gutter Magazine, Monstrous Regiment and New Writing Scotland. His debut novel Squeaky Clean (2023) – inspired by his years working at a car wash in Glasgow’s East End – garnered praise from the likes of Chris Brookmyre, Peter James and Kevin […]
Tamsin MacArthur is a multi-media artist based in Glasgow and a recent graduate of Sculpture and Environmental art from the Glasgow School of Art. Her work explores dialogues between belief and the ‘actual’, and action and reaction, frequently working in response to spiritual and mythological ideas within the framework of an increasingly nihilistic western modernity. […]
Saturn Akin is a Glasgow-based multidisciplinary artist, working across performance, adornment making, 3D, and photography. Their art practice revolves around the conjuration of their own identity (NB/Trans) and is driven by the creation, deconstruction, and reconstruction of adornments, 3D objects and still-lifes. Through this intricate and generative process, Saturn Akin explores themes of transness, body […]
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Zoe Lafferty was awarded an 8-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and […]
Cove Park’s Associates programme is a membership programme for former residents, offering new fully-funded residencies, events, and networking opportunities to ensure we can continue to support residents over a longer period of time. The Associates Visual Artist Residency is for a visual artist and Cove Park Associate based in Scotland and aged 50+. It is […]
The Maker/Designer Residency supports a Scotland-based maker or designer aged 50+ and is made possible with generous support from the Turtleton Charitable Trust. Following a call for applications, the 2024 residency has been awarded to Jane Keith. Originally from Edinburgh, Jane comes from a family of artists and studied printed textiles at Duncan of Jordanstone […]
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Ayisha Malik was awarded a 3-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and […]
The Argyll Heritage Craft Residency is a new fully funded residency for an Argyll-based maker. Contemporary craft and design have been key aspects of Cove Park’s annual residency programme since 2000 and many of the participating makers have employed traditional craft processes, materials, designs, and techniques in the production of their work. However, this is […]
Jian Yi is a multidisciplinary artist working in performance art, contemporary dance and new genres. Their practice is rooted in an ongoing enquiry into the ambiguities of emotional experience.
Krissy Stewart was born and raised in California and attended California State University Long Beach, where she developed an interest in art and design. Krissy earned a Design and Applied Arts degree from Edinburgh College of Art, where she honed her printmaking skills, primarily focusing on interior architecture. Recently completing her MSc in Art Psychotherapy, […]
Abbey Craig is a creative practitioner, teacher, and facilitator, passionate about people, community, and lifelong learning. Abbey’s professional practice and choice of work has recently been influenced by her own need to be well and the health and well-being needs expressed by the families, individuals, and professionals she meets when working in educational settings, residential […]
Ros Borland worked in film production for many years, moving up the ranks from runner to producer. Her first feature film as producer (with Catherine Aitken), Afterlife, starring Kevin McKidd, won the Standard Life Audience Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2003 and was released theatrically in the UK in 2004. Her second […]
Moira McPartlin has been writing for over twenty-five years. Her debut novel The Incomers, published by Fledgling Press in 2012, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award. Over the next seven years Moira wrote her speculative fiction Sun Song Trilogy novels (also published by Fledgling Press). The novels, set in […]
We are pleased to welcome the artist Paula Thompson to Cove Park for a one-week residency in 2024. Paula is a visual artist based in Edinburgh. She works mainly to commission on public art projects, where her work responds to the history of the site, its environs and its users. She uses a wide variety […]
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Andrew Rubens was awarded a 4-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and […]
Hannah Sabapathy is a British–Indian designer based in Dundee, Scotland. As part of the Cove Park residency, she will research and examine the impact of colonialism on Indian textile design whilst exploring themes of hybridity and appropriation. Her commissioned work will be permanently acquired by The Harris Museum, Preston, in autumn 2023.
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Matthew Arthur Williams was awarded a 6-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually […]
Material Futures is a new programne for visual artists working with or developing sustainable materials and approaches as a key aspect of their work. Following an open call for applications, we are delighted to announce that the inaugural Material Futures Residencies have been awarded to the UK-based artists Niamh Schmidtke and Monya Riachi. Material Futures […]
Coby Sey is an artist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Lewisham, London. Coby has developed a truly singular voice as both a producer and performer, weaving together threads from jazz fusion, hip-hop, post-punk and club music to create something wholly new. Though his output almost seems collaborative by nature – frequently seen working alongside acclaimed artists Tirzah, Mica […]
The Bowmaker Residency is a new residency designed to support a visual artist based in Scotland and in the earlier stages of their careers. The recipient of the 2024 residency is Morwenna Kearsley, a Glasgow-based artist working predominantly with photography, text and moving-image. Her practice is shaped by two main areas of activity: studio-based solo […]
The recipient of Cove Park’s first Loch Long Crime Writing Residency is Caro Carver. This new fully funded residency is aimed at Scotland-based writers developing new work in crime fiction. Caro Carver lives in Inverclyde, Scotland with her husband and four children. She is Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, teaches for […]
Heather Marshall (she/her) is a queer, disabled artist, writer and facilitator. She often works under the company name Creative Electric where she creates theatre, live art and tape art with and for people that may not traditionally engage in the arts due to social, physical and/or financial barriers. She is the only professionally practising Tape […]
Fiona Soe Paing is a music producer, singer and sound artist based in Aberdeenshire, and of Scottish/Burmese heritage. She has been creating music since 2007, with a continuing underlying theme of language, place, belonging and identity. Her first solo track, sung in Burmese, was included on an international “World Music” compilation album for Warner music. […]
Ann Greer is a Glasgow born Writer, based in Argyll. Ann’s Poetry has been published in Poetry Scotland; Spare Rib; Harpies and Quines plus Anthologies and other publications. This residency will offer Ann the opportunity to develop her own creative work as she has supported others, on a paid and unpaid basis, for decades.
Lucy Beth is an emerging performer and theatre-maker, hailing from Inverurie Aberdeenshire. In December 2023, Lucy graduated with distinction from the University of Glasgow’s MLitt Theatre and Performance Practices Course. She was awarded a PGT Excellence Scholarship by the University. Prior to postgraduate study, Lucy served as a visiting drama lecturer at the North East […]
Joanna Kinnersly-Taylor is a printed textile artist and designer based in Glasgow. She specialises in one-off works on linen, for exhibition, interiors and site-specific commissions for public and private spaces. She is the author of ‘Dyeing and Screen-Printing on Textiles’ (Bloomsbury), which is being expanded for a third edition, and does occasional lecturing as well […]
Fiona Percy is a visual, mixed media textile storyteller from Forres, Moray. She identifies as a queer, menopausal, disabled, neurodivergent, care giver, her work reflecting the intersectional nature of self. Her methodology cycles through continual creative loops; gather, create, destroy, repeat. She graduated from UHI with a BA(Hons) Fine Art Textiles in 2018 and PG […]
Material Futures is a new programne for visual artists working with or developing sustainable materials and approaches as a key aspect of their work. Following an open call for applications, we are delighted to announce that the inaugural Material Futures Residencies have been awarded to the UK-based artists Niamh Schmidtke and Monya Riachi. Niamh Schmidtke […]
Material Futures is a new programne for visual artists working with or developing sustainable materials and approaches as a key aspect of their work. Following an open call for applications, we are delighted to announce that the inaugural Material Futures Residencies have been awarded to the UK-based artists Niamh Schmidtke and Monya Riachi. Monya Riachi […]
Dhelia Snoussi is an artist, researcher and curator with a background in arts education and youth work. She is currently Youth Culture Curator at the Museum of London, working on the museum’s contemporary collecting project, Curating London. Previously, she authored a report with the Runnymede Trust and the Centre for Labour and Social Studies entitled ‘We Are Ghosts’: […]
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Amit Noy was awarded an 3-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and […]
Amber Lee Dodd is an award-winning children’s author and short-story writer. Her work includes the critically acclaimed novels We Are Giants, Lightning Chase Me Home and The Thirteenth Home of Noah Bradley. Her debut novel, We Are Giants, was nominated for over ten awards, winning the Calderdale Book of the Year award and shortlisting for the prestigious Branford Boase […]
Isabelle Moore is an award-winning furniture designer-maker with an abiding passion for chair design. Her Edinburgh-based studio practice incorporates woven fibre techniques and timber construction to produce functional, minimal furniture pieces. Over the decades her work has been strongly influenced by skill-sharing during residency programmes and teaching positions, held both at home and further afield. […]
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Coby Sey was awarded a 2-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and […]
Mohamed-Zain Dada is a playwright, researcher and cultural producer. Mohamed-Zain’s directing credits include 2019 Outspoken Prize winning short visual poem, ‘The Moon is a Meme’, and 2020 Outspoken Prize-nominated animation short, ‘Otherstani.’ Mohamed-Zain is a Winston Churchill Fellow after publishing his research on ‘The Future of Community Arts.’ His first theatre credit, ‘Emily (GLITCHED) in Paris’ […]
Cove Park’s Associates Programme is a membership programme for our former residents. It offers new opportunities, events, and residency exchanges on an annual basis for those wishing to continue to work at and with Cove Park. From an open call application process, the inaugural Associates in Collaboration residency has been awarded to former resident and […]
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Kathryn (Kechi) Nwajiaku-Dahou was awarded a 2-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually […]
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Hannah Sabapathy was awarded a 4-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and […]
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 investigates the influence of textiles on early 20th century visual art, in particular abstract painting with a […]
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Matthew Arthur Williams was awarded a 6-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually […]
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Zoe Lafferty was awarded an 8-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and […]
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Andrew Rubens was awarded a 4-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and […]
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Kirsty Crawford was awarded a 4-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and […]
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, bare minimum collective was awarded a 4-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually […]
William Keohane is a writer from Limerick. His essays have been published in British GQ, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, and The Tangerine. In 2021, he was longlisted for Canongate’s Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing and was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions series. William is the current writer-in-residence at Ormston House. William says: “I […]
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Kuppuswamy Ganesan was awarded an 8-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and […]
This micro residency supports recent graduates Cosmo Wezenbeek and Michael Becker. Cosmo is a recent graduate from Architecture at the Edinburgh University with an interest in applying a multidisciplinary approach to architectural discourse to interrogate experiences and other modes of understanding our environment. This is leading to a practice investigating and scrutinising how we perceive […]
Lizzy Leech is a set and costume designer and theatre maker from Cumbria. She works collaboratively and predominantly in new writing and devised theatre, with an interest in work that interrogates form and enhances the liveness of sharing a space. Whilst at Cove Park Lizzy plans to develop her work as a lead artist. She […]
Jian Yi is a multidisciplinary artist working in performance art, contemporary dance and new genres. Their practice is rooted in an ongoing enquiry into the ambiguities of emotional experience. Their work has been performed and exhibited internationally in major venues such as New Museum, The Kitchen NYC, Summerhall, Dance Base Edinburgh, Tramway and CCA Glasgow, […]
Andy Holden (b. 1982 Bedford, U.K) is an artist whose work comprises large installations, sculpture, painting, pop music, performance, animation, curating and multi-screen-videos. His work is often defined by very personal starting points, used to arrive at more abstract philosophical questions, and is often deliberately disjunctive, employing subtle irony, and using one subject matter as […]
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Erin McQuarrie was awarded a 3-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and […]
Bonnie MacRae is an award-winning writer and director with a drive to create work that gives platforms loud, pertinent, socially-fuelled Scottish stories head on. Bonnie is particularly interested in celebrating strong female characters, shining a light on the stories not always shown on screen. Her work has picked up accolades including Best Short Film and […]
Miranda Bellamy (she/her) and Amanda Fauteux (she/her) are partners and artistic collaborators who extend the stories of wild plants through site-specific research and experimentation. By listening to plants and responding through interdisciplinary projects, they queer the constructs that separate human beings from non-human beings and make space for the critical revision of human histories. Since their […]
Hatty Nestor is a cultural critic, poet and writer. She has been writer-in-residence at the Jerwood Space in London (2017) and critic-in-residence at Studio Das Weisse Haus in Vienna (2019). Her writing has been supported by the Arts Council, and appears in Frieze, Art in America, The Times Literary Supplement, Granta, The White Review, and […]
Mele Broomes’ work embodies stories from the collective voice, creating visceral and sensory collaborations. Her work GRIN was presented at Battersea Art Centre, London, alongside the film production which was also screened at Theatre Centre Canada and part of Cultura Inglesa Festival in Brazil. In 2021 Mele was commissioned by Scottish Dance Theatre, where she […]
Nic Green is an award-winning performance maker based in Scotland, known for her works Cock and Bull, TURN, Fatherland, Slowlo, Trilogy, Vivarium. Her work is varied in style and method, spanning dance, theatre, site-specific, sonic and sculptural works, with forms often ‘found’ through collaborative and relational practices with communities, place and material. Her work has […]
Mariam Syed is a weaver and a current Master of Research student (graduating December 2022) at the Glasgow School of Art. Her research explores the rigid dichotomy between traditional craft and the ever advancing digital technologies in making. She is interested in understanding the growing usage of digital technology and how that shapes the definition […]
Michael Stumpf is a visual artist working primarily with sculptural installation. He was born in Mannheim (GER) and currently lives and works between Glasgow (UK), Bergen (NO) and Lingbo (SWE). In addition to his own practice he worked collaboratively as a member of the artist group Poster Club. He was a co-founder and curator of […]
Soizig Carey is a Glasgow-based artist and designer-maker specialising in contemporary jewellery. Her practice is rooted in slow design and making, feminism and anti-capitalist consumer culture. She is acutely conscious of the impact her work has on human labour, supply chains and the environment. Using both ancient and new making processes, she is drawn towards […]
Hannah Ayre is a participatory artist, educator and creative producer. She works with audiences to create socially engaged artwork, ranging from small-scale crafts to large-scale installations and events.
Heiba Lamara is an artist-researcher exploring independent print, publishing and archival practices as a creative practice for social change. She is the Assistant Editor of OOMK Zine since 2013 and co-founder of Rabbits Road Press, a community-focused Risograph studio in London. Self-directed project-based research around print, oral histories, archives and coloniality, are translated into zines, […]
Jennie Temple is an artist and lecturer based in Edinburgh. Since having children in 2006 and 2010, and until fairly recently, her work has predominantly centred around an exploration of what an art practice might look like in the space of being a parent and a full-time worker in art education. The majority of the […]
Edward Gwyn Jones is an artist based in Glasgow, working primarily with moving image. His work appropriates artefacts such as archival printed matter; historicised objects or images; and pop-cultural audio-visual material. In 2021, Edward graduated with an MFA from Glasgow School of Art and his work Genesis (What Can’t Light See?) was awarded the Ivan […]
Kirsty Logan is a professional daydreamer. Her first story collection, The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales, won the Scott Prize, the Polari First Book Prize, and the Saboteur Award. Her first novel, The Gracekeepers, won a Lambda Literary Award and was selected for the Radio 2 Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club. A Portable Shelter won the Gavin […]
Siôn Parkinson is a sound artist, composer, performer and writer. Animals and other non-human subjects have frequently featured in Siôn’s art and music, but for the last three years his work has focussed on one species of mushroom in particular, the stinkhorn. Recent works include a short puppet animation for the BBC, a perfume score for […]
Mathilde N’Doye is an interdisciplinary artist and chef whose work incorporates community arts, installation and social sculpture. Their current practice investigates food and commensality, exploring the heritage of food and its link to cultural identity and history. Through sharing food within curated environments, their work tells stories of embodied knowledge and social actions, engaging others […]
Languid Hands is a London-based artistic and curatorial collaboration between DJ, filmmaker and curator Rabz Lansiquot, and interdisciplinary writer and artist Imani Mason Jordan (fka Imani Robinson). Their practice explores collaboration, curation, black study and experimentation across exhibitions, moving image, text, performance, publications and public programming, alongside peer-led artists development and residencies. They began collaborating […]
Amanda Verlaqueis a writer for stage, screen and VR. The MAC, Belfast produced her critically acclaimed debut play Distortion, and her radio play Lolly, which featured in their On the Street Where We Live audio series (which she also executive produced). She’s just made her debut as a director for VR with her short film Egg, produced by RETìníZE. Amanda’s career in […]
Sekai Machache (she/her) is a Zimbabwean-Scottish visual artist and curator based in Glasgow. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self. She is interested in the relationship between spirituality, imagination, and the role of the artist in disseminating symbolic imagery to provide a space for healing. Sekai works with a wide range […]
Daniyal Ahmed is a musician, anthropologist, curator, and producer; researching and practicing at the intersection of sound and culture. He currently teaches courses in Sound, Music, and Anthropology at the Habib University, in Karachi, where he has lived most of his life. Although he began his musical journey as a self–taught singer and guitar player, he later became a disciple of Ustad […]
Ufuoma Essi is a filmmaker and artist from Lewisham, south-east London whose work spans film, moving image, photography and sound. Using the archive as an essential medium, her work revolves around Black feminist epistemology and the configuration of displaced histories, with the aim of interrogating and disrupting the silences and gaps of political and historical narratives. She […]
Nilam Sari is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Their research and art practice focus on grief and technology–specifically the way we grieve through technology, as well as the way we grieve the technology itself. By using woodworking and electronic arts as their primary mediums, they explore these topics by creating work ranging from […]
Dandelion Day Camp is a pilot project within Cove Park’s engagement programme. We will welcome 20 children between 8 – 12 years of age for a week long-programme of creative activity at Cove Park during the school holidays. Taking place from Monday 25th – Friday 29th July, the activities will be devised and led by […]
Cove Park’s European Residency Programme began in 2019. Devised in response to Brexit, and our wish to continue to develop collaborations and partnerships with artists and organisations based in EU nations, this programme has to date welcomed 13 artists based in 8 European countries. The residencies are devised and programmed in collaboration with 11 partners […]
Hope Strickland is a researcher and artist filmmaker from Manchester, UK, with current interests in postcolonial ecologies, queer, diasporic assemblages and the bonds between resource extraction and racial violence. Recent work has explored black metamorphosis alongside taxonomies of imperial control; working across 16mm, digital and archival formats to question and disrupt the distances between myth, […]
Dylan Bonnar is a Writer, Performer, Composer and Lyricist based in the West Coast of Scotland. His training includes an HND in Music and a Bachelor’s degree with Honours in Performing Arts. Dylan has performed in many different shows ranging from musicals like Rock of Ages and Rent to pantomimes and short films. His most recent professional credits are Elves […]
Polly Barton is a writer and translator of Japanese literature and nonfiction. Her essays and translations have been published by The White Review, Words Without Borders, Granta, and Monkey. Full-length translations include Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki (Pushkin Press, 2017), Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (Tilted Axis Press/Soft Skull Press, 2020), There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura (Bloomsbury, […]
City As A Spaceship (CAAS) is a new way of thinking about humans and their relationships with their habitats, transporters and their environment, an intelligent way of designing future cities, such that each city can be composed of small, spaceship like closed-loop eco-systems where most resources the city consumes, are produced locally, in-situ, leveraging the […]
Tim Fab-Eme is an engineer and poet who experiments with poetic forms on the themes of environmental and social justice. He is the Issue 7 poetry editor of Reckoning: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, and Fall 2022 poetry candidate of the University of Notre Dame’s MFA programme. Tim loves exploring the wonders of Nature, gardening, […]
Edd Carr is an experimental artist from North Yorkshire, UK, working primarily with moving image and sustainable processes to explore our anxieties around the ecological crisis and the mass extinction of life. He manipulates his own experiences to understand wider societal trauma surrounding the climate crisis. Edd’s moving image work has been exhibited worldwide, including Holland, Australia, […]
Antony Lucchesi is an artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. He Graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 2021 where he studied Sculpture and Environmental Art. His practice forms around the act of processing and reprocessing recurring motifs and imagery through a variety of digital techniques to interrogate the way digital imaging technology can augment, […]
Deirdre Nelson a maker creating textiles which explore humour, place and social history. She partners traditional techniques with contemporary processes such as digital print in creating work not only to be exhibited in galleries but on artist residencies, within education and community projects. Resulting works cross over art, design and craft. She enables the communities […]
Rachel Briscoe is co-founder lead artist for digital story studio Fast Familiar. Fast Familiar make artworks which are participatory, playful and political. We are an award-winning interdisciplinary collaboration comprising expertise in theatre, game design, digital technology and neuroscience and psychology. For us, art is a space to explore questions which are too complex for daily […]
Vittoria’s latest play is with Kabosh, exploring the experiences of female combatants in the FARC & the Troubles in NI. This was produced in late Spring 2021 online and returns to the Lyric theatre & tours Ireland in June 2022. In December 2020 she was selected to be part of the Abbey Theatre’s Engine Room […]
Amy Conway is a Theatre Maker, Actor, Facilitator, Playwright, Director, Clown and Civil Celebrant based in Glasgow who experiments with form and collaborates with a variety of interdisciplinary theatre makers and community groups. She is an Associate Director at Loop Theatre, who make inclusive performance work with learning disabled adults. As a theatre maker, Amy’s […]
John Darvell creates thought-provoking, darkly cinematic, twisted scenarios which are firmly rooted in the here and now. His choreography explores human realities, laying bare individual vulnerabilities, so often wounded and unseen in the new world order of mega-corporate faceless forces. John’s professional journey into dance began in his late 30’s when he took the courageous […]
Laura Edwards is the artistic director of Loop Theatre an inclusive physical theatre company who present devised site-specific and street theatre. A huge focus of Loops work is community-based, empowering participants to make bold choices and feel comfortable in their own skin and to allow themselves to see and be seen. Prior to founding Loop […]
Carys D. Coburn is a trans writer from Dublin. Their work is political, playful, funny, angry, strange. They were the winner of the Verity Bargate Award 2017 for Citysong — co-produced by Soho Theatre, the Abbey Theatre, and Galway International Arts Festival. Other plays include Absent The Wrong (Best Production at Dublin Fringe 2022) and […]
Andrea Ling is an interdisciplinary artist (director, writer, dramaturg & practitioner) who advocates for social change and connection through art. Her work falls within theatre, installation, film and visual arts. Andrea was a recent recipient of the Jerwood Live Work award, 2020. Currently her practice explores de-colonial approaches to environmentalism developing co-created/ co-curated art projects […]
Glasgow-based Saffy Setohy is a dance artist working across choreography, performance, participatory work, facilitation, mentoring and movement direction in an expanded field. Interdisciplinary collaboration is at the heart of her work. A deep interest in people, place and ecological practice threads through all of her activities, aiming to perceive and relate to the world through […]
Hannah Brackston is a socially engaged artist based in Glasgow, creating site specific artworks responding to the relationships between people and their environment. Born in Leeds, Hannah studied Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art. She graduated in 2011, receiving the David Harding Public Art prize. Since then Hannah has undertaken a wide range of […]
This residency supports an early-career artist based in Scotland. We are grateful to The Bridge Awards for their ongoing support for this programme. Aman Sandhu (born Toronto, Canada, 1984) is based in Glasgow. His practice includes sculpture, drawing, and performance. He collaborates frequently with other artists, activists, writers and academics. His work explores the complexities […]
Rabiya Choudhry is a visual artist based in Edinburgh. Her paintings vary from miniatures to large scale canvases and murals and her practice also includes painted sculptures, fabrics and text-based artworks. She describes her work as exploring ‘… the complicated coupling of eastern and western cultures in richly vibrant portrayals of the different autobiographical factors […]
Ben Rivers’ work mostly takes the form of films. He is often drawn to people who live outside of urban society and those he describes as having found ‘… ways of being in the world in a more self-sufficient way, up to a point, and who attempt to have less of an impact on the […]
Artist-curator Katherine Ka Yi Liu’s current research draws attention to the generational trauma her home city, Hong Kong, has been facing since 1841. Her research became witness to the political transformation of Hong Kong from a British colony to a post-colonial state and has focused in particular on the nexus of power relations between the West and China. Ceramics is […]
Devised in response to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, this new series of residencies is designed to support early career visual artists based in Scotland. The crisis has had a devastating impact upon artists. Many have lost work and access to studio space in addition having planned projects, exhibitions and commissions postponed. Recognising that this is […]
Thomas Abercromby is a visual artist and curator based in the north of Glasgow. His practice involves long-term collaborations with other creative practitioners and community partners in his local area that share his commitment to positive social and cultural change. Working directly with artists, activists, architects, school children, poets, civil servants and teachers, Thomas has […]
Natsumi Sakamoto is a visual artist based in Glasgow. Her practice involves film, drawing, printmaking, performance and photography. Recent work, such as ‘A Rowan Wards off Witches’ (mixed media installation, 2o2o) and the film, shot on the Isle of Bute in Argyll, ‘She casts a curse into the sea’ (2019), have developed through the artist’s […]
Hang Linton is a self taught, interdisciplinary artist, working in music, performance, dance, video and installation. Community and collaboration are integral to their work. Personal practice explores otherness through sound and trickster characters. Hang creates ambient sound, electronic music and visuals for dance, performance and live art. Creative freedom and expression of those who are […]
As a designer/maker Natalie is inspired by everyday culture of use. Focusing on functional objects that play into our lives on a daily basis. Natalie specialises in bringing colour to clay, inspired minimalism and colour theory. Through her work she examines the place of craft in contemporary society and the connection between cultural identity and […]
Alkmini Gkousiari is a Greek artist living and working in Glasgow. She works with a variety of mediums and predominantly in spaces outside of the white cube, collaborating with artists, landscapes and communities. Gkousiari’s visual and written work occupies a purely mythological space. With theatricality, the subject is always something not quite of our global […]
Tessa MacKenzie is a glazier and illustrator based in Glasgow. She is interested in research-led projects, material focus in the built environment and storytelling. Her practice centres around how stained glass can enhance the way we experience architecture and the role it has to play in telling the stories of people that occupy a space. […]
Camara Taylor (b.1627, London) is an artist and – – – based in Glasgow. They work with their various selves, collaborators and organisations to produce still and moving images, texts and other things // Recent projects depart from rumour, gossip and ambivalent readings of historical matter | the work tends towards the excesses of dominant […]
Enkaryon Ang is a poet based in Taipei, Taiwan. Since 2009 he has published several collections of poetry and essays. He was selected by the literary magazine, Unitas, as one of the top three poets born in the 1980s in Taiwan. He also works as a literature curator and art critic, mainly for world literature […]
Corin Sworn is a visual artist based in Glasgow. For the past three years she has been producing large scale installations through collaborative choreography, live feed cameras and complex architectural augmentation. These works have offered spaces for viewers to move through and explore histories of image capture for performance assessment, it’s invention for the factory […]
Sean Wai Keung is a Glasgow-based poet, interdisciplinary and community artist with research interests in food and migration. He is currently working on a series of poems exploring food as a connective device between both people and artforms, and he hopes to encourage communal conversations between artists around how food can be used to explore […]
Tim Craven is a poet based in Edinburgh. During his time at Cove Park, Tim intends to complete a manuscript which he hopes will become his debut collection. Using the time and distance provided by the residency, Tim will select and revise the poems for inclusion, arranging them into a coherent whole. The poems, which […]
Darren Appiagyei is a London-based woodturner. He graduated from University of the Arts London/Camberwell College of Arts in 2016 where he studied 3D Design. His practise embraces the intrinsic beauty of the wood, be it a knot, crack, bark or grain. Darren is an awardee of the Cockpit Arts/Turners Award (2017) through which he received his […]
Anthea Hamilton’s practice comprises installation, sculpture and performance. Her work is executed with the most visually economical means of communicating a body of research, sensation or personal experience. It is normally produced upon commission and responds to the nature of the invitation, meaning it is always made site-specifically and with consideration to the location, the […]
Patrick Langley is a novelist based in London. His debut novel Arkady, a coming-of-age story set during a time of protest, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2018. During his residency at Cove Park he intends to complete the manuscript for his second novel, The Variations, which tells the story of several generations of a musical family […]
Amy Jones is a visual artist based in Dundee. Her predominantly print based practice is concerned with an exploration of relationships between ourselves, each other, space and material. In relation to her approach to her work she has stated, ‘By considering actions and narratives, everyday encounters, instinct and intuition, I use these experiences as material […]
Maiko Tsutsumi’s creative practice explores the potential of inherent material qualities and the power and the nature of human skills and ingenuity that reconfigure such qualities to create affective quality. Inspired by the power of ethnological objects, folk objects and tales, and ancient architectural details that speak of the nature of humanity, she engages with […]
Belinda Zhawi (MA.MOYO), based in South East London, is a literary and sound artist whose work grapples with diaspora identity & heritage through the mediums of poetry & sound. During her residency at Cove Park, Belinda aims to continue developing her creative practice and working on ‘Viva Voce’ – a poetry project that aims to […]
Renèe Helèna Browne is an Irish artist based between Glasgow and Donegal. Browne makes essay films, vocal soundscapes, and angsty drawings. They are 2021-2023 Talbot Rice Resident Artist with ECA at the University of Edinburgh. In 2021 Browne is commissioned by the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, to make ‘Rebuilding Urania’, a new film work that they […]
Beth Cochrane is a writer and poet based in Edinburgh. She is currently working on her first novel – set in a not-unimaginable dystopian future – and will be working on completing a second draft during her residency. Beth will be using this residency to explore isolation and loneliness, which are key themes of her […]
Cove Park is pleased to offer residencies to literary translators as part of our Funded Literature Summer Programme in 2020. Annie Rutherford is based in Edinburgh, albeit with frequent stints in Germany, where, as she describes it, ‘she makes things with words, and champions poetry and translates literature in all its guises’. Annie works as […]
Aoife Lyall is an Irish poet living and working in the Scottish Highlands. This residency will enable her to complete her debut collection, Mother, Nature (Bloodaxe Books, 2021), specifically through a final in-depth critical analysis of each poem contained therein, followed by a review of the collection’s overall ordering and structure. Beyond this, she will divide […]
Patrick Davison studied at Glasgow School of Art and Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School, Florence, and is currently based in Kent. His work has at its core an essential interest in metal and the various qualities that this material offers, qualities he has explored during extensive periods of research and experimentation. This research has variously focussed […]
Based in Dundee, Rhona Jack is a multi-disciplinary artist working primarily with sculpture, printmaking and fibre art. She has a particular interest craft processes and describes her work as often ‘… blurring the lines between art, craft and design.’ This interest stems in part from her research into industrialisation and mass production processes, which served […]
Cecilia is a Glasgow based designer and maker. Inspired by abstract forms from Modernist architecture, packaging and the man-made, she creates graphic, contemporary jewellery with an understated palette. Combining traditional craft processes including vitreous enamel, resin, wax carving and silversmithing, allows Cecilia to translate these source materials into tactile, wearable objects with a focus on […]
Cal Mac graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2020. Working between sculpture and video, he develops an emotional inquiry into how systemic addiction profits from dependency, shame and love. After graduating, he received a short film commission from Film and Video Umbrella, where he used a combination of archival footage, poetry and interviews to […]
Caitlin Dick is a visual artist and curator based in Aberdeen. Her practice includes video, sculpture, installation, sound and photography and expresses her strong interest in the environment. The artist’s current research focusses specifically upon how plant life responds to an intense exposure to plastics. Her work is often playful and curious, and is underpinned […]
Jen Calleja is a writer and literary translator based in Hastings, East Sussex currently focusing on memoir and poetry translation. While at Cove Park she will be working towards translating German author Marion Poschmann’s multi-award-winning poetry collection Nimbus. Her translation of Poschmann’s novel The Pine Islands was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019, […]
Jane Alexander is a novelist and short story writer based in Edinburgh. During her residency she will work on her third novel, developing her longstanding interest in uncanny fiction in an ambitious project that encompasses multiple timelines and protagonists. The novel will explore intersections of dreams and reality alongside different kinds of marginalisation, through secret […]
Jenny Steele is a Scottish artist currently based in Manchester. Her practice is motivated by the restorative and uplifting qualities of coastal environments and interwar architecture. This architectural period emphasised social wellbeing, and she revives its optimism and hope through textiles, site-specific artwork, textiles, sculpture and printmaking. Jenny is simultaneously interested in exploring the fluid […]
Juliana Capes is an award-winning multidisciplinary visual artist. Growing up in coastal Lincolnshire, she continues to live by the sea at Portobello, Edinburgh. She has worked in the arts in Scotland for the last 23 years, exhibiting most recently at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery, Royal Scottish Academy and Edinburgh Art Festival. Current projects are influenced by […]
Attua Aparicio Torinos is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of design, craft and art. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2011 (MA Design Products) and at the core of her practice lays a very experimental approach to understanding and working with materials. She is interested in sustainability, material hybridisation […]
Saoirse Amira Anis is a Dundee-based visual artist and curator. Her work includes photography, sculpture, installation, performance and publications and she describes her creative process as one through which she can explore ‘… the fascinating and beautiful relationships between materials and memories.’ The artist is interested in her personal ancestry and responsibilities surrounding the continuation […]
Ellen Renton is a poet, performer, and theatre maker from Edinburgh. The project that she will be working on while in residence at Cove Park is an exploration of the culture around sight. Much of her previous work has been influenced by her experience of living with a visual impairment, but with this project, she […]
Working across sculpture, video, sound, text and performance, Aniara Omann describes her practice as: ‘… an exploration of the boundaries of individual objects, and the seeming paradox of simultaneous interconnectedness and individuality.’ She often draws upon the aesthetic language of science fiction and employs casting techniques to produce objects with life-like qualities and varying degrees […]
Alison Scott is an artist and writer based in Glasgow working in writing, performance and video. She works frequently in collaboration with other practitioners and views the dialogue this allows for as a key aspect of her work. She is currently Reviews Co-Editor for MAP magazine and Associate Producer at Collective Edinburgh, as part of […]
Katie Schwab works with textiles, furniture and moving image within a practice that spans exhibition making, workshops community projects and design commissions. She is interested in underrepresented histories of domestic and civic design and interweaves personal, social and craft-based histories, often drawing from marginalised and overlooked traditions of living, making and working collectively. Working frequently […]
Laia Jufresa is a Mexican author based in Scotland, focussing primarily upon fiction. During her residency at Cove Park she will work on her second novel WISHBONE. This is an ambitious project requiring research on a broad spectrum of themes such as: forced disappearances in Mexico, colour theory and chromatics, common expressions in German, pet octopuses, […]
Sarah Urwin Jones is a writer and critic based in Edinburgh. She studied History and French and Mediaeval Art History at universities in Edinburgh, Paris and St. Andrews, and now works as a classical music and visual art critic. In 2016 she received a New Writers Award (Narrative Non-Fiction) from the Scottish Book Trust and […]
Alexis Kyle Mitchell works primarily in moving image. Her work deals with the formation of spatial imaginaries through history, politics and acts of belonging. These works include a musical documentary about Jewish summer camp made in collaboration with Stephanie Markowitz; an experimental film that uses colour and sound to explore the sensory perceptions of surveillance; […]
Mathew Wayne Parkin is an artist, writer and home cook mainly working in moving image with family and friends. They are particularly interested in autobiography, accent, intimacy, and speech acts in public. Their work is like an armpit, personal and intimate, of the body and relationships – smelling earthy. Mathew tries to resist dominant forms […]
Samantha Clark is an artist and writer based in Orkney. Her first book The Clearing: A Memoir of Art, Family and Mental Health was published by Little, Brown in March 2020. Sam’s writing has emerged gradually out of her visual art practice and explores similiar concerns. During her residency at Cove Park she plans to work […]
Ross Little is a painter and filmmaker based in Glasgow. The 2020 digital video ‘This Is Where The Spirits Tend To Hang Out’ (presented during the artist’s recent solo exhibition at CCA Glasgow) reflects the artist’s longstanding interest in how the land, body and mind are shaped through their relationship to forms of control, both material […]
Francis Dosoo is a multidisciplinary artist with a practice centered around embodied observation. Grounded in a multifaceted research process Francis utilises sound, prose, photography, movement and the moving image, to de- and re-construct artifacts within specific cultural memories. Francis’s recent work has included What is Behind the Saint’s Eyes… (2021), a large scale public photography and prose […]
Adebusola Ramsay is a visual artist based in East Renfrewshire. Her painting and printmaking practice has developed over the last two decades. She works primarily with acrylics and employs evocative colour contrasts, textural details and different forms of mark making to create new perspectives in irregular line and colour patterns. Her work is often inspired […]
Kerrianne Flett is a visual artist based in Orkney. To date, her sculptural works have variously involved metalworking, casting, ceramics, CAD (computer aided design) and 3D printing. She describes her practice as one that is material led, developed through a process of experimentation and learning new skills in a wide range of disciplines. Kerrianne is […]
Polly Atkin is a poet and essayist based in Grasmere, Cumbria. During her residency, Polly will be working on her second poetry collection Much With Body, taking time to edit and redraft as well as work on new poems. Much With Body revolves around key themes of location and dislocation, contemporary rural life, and living with chronic illness, exploring what it […]
Hrafnhildur Halldorsdottir creates installations using drawings and sculptural objects made by using textile materials in a repetitive, abstract way. At Cove Park she wishes to develop a new body of work focusing upon the combination of her drawing and painting practice with her sculptural practice. Based in Glasgow, Halldorsdottir is working towards a two-person exhibition […]
Cove Park’s programme of Early Career Residencies supports UK-based artists in the process of establishing their careers, providing an opportunity for research and the development of new work at this crucial stage. We are pleased this year to offer four residencies to artists specialising in composition/music, crafts/design, literature and visual art. This year, the crafts/design […]
Cove Park’s programme of Early Career Residencies supports UK-based artists in the process of establishing their careers, providing an opportunity for research and the development of new work at this crucial stage. We are pleased this year to offer four residencies to artists specialising in composition/music, crafts/design, literature and visual art. This year, the music/composition […]
Cove Park’s programme of Early Career Residencies supports UK-based artists in the process of establishing their careers, providing an opportunity for research and the development of new work at this crucial stage. We are pleased this year to offer four residencies to artists specialising in composition/music, crafts/design, literature and visual art. This year, the literature […]
Cove Park’s programme of Early Career Residencies supports UK-based artists in the process of establishing their careers, providing an opportunity for research and the development of new work at this crucial stage. We are pleased this year to offer four residencies to artists specialising in composition/music, crafts/design, literature and visual art. This year, the visual […]
This residency is offered to a writer based in Scotland who may not yet have published a work but demonstrates exceptional promise. Rebecca Raeburn is an Edinburgh-based writer and reviewer. She is a graduate of the MSc in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Her work has been published in several magazines, most recently […]
The UK Crafts & Design Residency supports an established designer/maker at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Previous residents on this programme include Linda Brothwell, Linda Florence, Charlotte […]
Annie Crabtree is an artist and researcher based in Glasgow. She makes moving image work exploring political, social and cultural narratives about women, drawing upon feminist theory to inform both concept and method. Annie also works at LUX Scotland. Whilst at Cove Park she will progress a new work, currently titled Pain, which aims to rewrite the history of women’s […]
Operating across disciplines, from architecture, ceramics, design, print and typography, Giles Round’s work engages a variety of materials, processes and collaborators to address the relationship between art, design and functionality. As such the work is populated with citation and appropriation and, over the last decade, Round has built an extensive catalogue of references to early […]
An artist from Puerto Rico’s diaspora, Emilia Beatriz is based in Scotland. Beatriz’s interdisciplinary practice moves between lens-based media, text, sound, and performance; nourished and underpinned by workshops, shared research, collaborations, access work and other relational elements. Most recently, they have collaborated and exhibited in Bogotá, Colombia, Ferrara, Italy and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Since […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
Mark Briggs works with film and video, performance, sound and the written word. He produces individual and collaborative work under the alias of Gas-tower. He is part of an artist Collective OaPaO with Sarah Forrest, Amelia Bywater and Rebecca Wilcox. In October 2018 Mark co-programmed the Artist Moving Image Festival produced by Lux Scotland and […]
This residency supports an early-career artist based in Scotland. We are grateful to The Bridge Awards for their ongoing support for this programme. Ashanti Harris’s work takes the form of performative installations and participatory dance and movement workshops or performances. Trained in sculpture, Harris graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2011 and completed a […]
This residency is offered to a writer based in Scotland who may not yet have published a work but demonstrates exceptional promise. It is an opportunity to develop a work in progress and to meet and work alongside established artists across all disciplines. Jeda Pearl is a Scottish writer & poet. Inspired by her Jamaican […]
Cove Park’s International Crafts programme expresses our commitment to supporting emerging and established international designer/makers and creating ways in which these individuals can engage with artists, organisations and audiences in Scotland. Previous international craft residents include Marie O’Connor, Erno Langenberg, Hannah Waldron, Nick Ross, Hilda Hellstrom, Carolina Apolonia, Johannes Nagel Anja Lapatsch and Annika Unge, […]
Alec Finlay‘s work focuses on cultural and political relationships with wild nature, in particular, place-awareness, ecopoetics, hutopianism and rewilding. Finlay recently concluded a five-year programme of research-based projects with Hauser and Wirth, NTS Mar Lodge and Trees for Life. This work is woven together wit installations and books relating to illness, the body and landscape. […]
The UK Craft Residency supports an established designer/maker at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Previous residents on this programme include Linda Brothwell, Linda Florence, Charlotte Linton, Lina […]
This residency is offered to a writer based in Scotland who may not yet have published a work but demonstrates exceptional promise. It is an opportunity to develop a work in progress and to meet and work alongside established artists across all disciplines. Conor Cleary is a writer from Tralee, Co. Kerry and lives in […]
Duncan Marquiss is based in Glasgow and known for his video works and drawings. He was the recipient of the Margaret Tait Award in 2015/16. A Cove Park Visual Arts resident in 2008 – and a tutor for the Hands-On programme – he will use this residency to research and develop his next film, a […]
Introduced this year and made possible with support from The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the Participatory Arts Residency supports artists based in the UK and working in participatory arts. This three-week residency was awarded to Clare Charles and Becca Thomas, two artists based in Cardiff. Clare and Becca combine their own artistic practice with running creative spaces in Wales. […]
This residency is offered to a writer based in Scotland who may not yet have published a work but demonstrates exceptional promise. It is an opportunity to develop a work in progress and to meet and work alongside established artists across all disciplines. Anna Stewart is a recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers […]
With this one-month residency Cove Park aims to provide designers and makers based in Scotland with the support required to develop new work at a crucial stage in their careers. Heather Woof is a jewellery designer based in Edinburgh. She creates distinctive contemporary jewellery with a focus on craftsmanship and detail. She describes herself as a […]
Adam Lewis-Jacob has been awarded the Vivid Projects/Animate WORK commission to create a new moving image work focusing on worker’s rights, work based activism, campaigning and legislation. As part of this project he is working with and researching the Trade Union Resource Centre (TURC) moving image archive. His interest in how to reinterpret archival material and reactivate […]
This residency is offered to a writer based in Scotland who may not yet have published a work but demonstrates exceptional promise. It is an opportunity to develop a work in progress and to meet and work alongside established artists across all disciplines. Garry MacKenzie is a poet and non-fiction writer based in Fife. His […]
The Glasgow-based visual artist Raydale Dower will be based at Cove Park for six weeks during the summer of 2019. The treatment of space through the lens of cultural, social and sonic signifiers is a continuing component of Raydale Dower’s practice. His work can be understood as sculptural, combining elements to create installations that include […]
With this one-month residency Cove Park aims to provide designers and makers based in Scotland with the support required to develop new work at a crucial stage in their careers. Oliver Pitt is a designer, illustrator and musician. His work exists in the overlap between Graphic design, visual art and music. He is interested in […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
Cove Park’s programme of Early Career Residencies support UK-based artists in the process of establishing their careers, providing an opportunity for research and the development of new work at this crucial stage. We are pleased this year to offer four residencies to artists specialising in composition/music, crafts/design, literature and visual art. This year, the residency […]
Cove Park’s programme of Early Career Residencies support UK-based artists in the process of establishing their careers, providing an opportunity for research and the development of new work at this crucial stage. We are pleased this year to offer four residencies to artists specialising in composition/music, crafts/design, literature and visual art. This year, the literature […]
Cove Park’s programme of Early Career Residencies support UK-based artists in the process of establishing their careers, providing an opportunity for research and the development of new work at this crucial stage. We are pleased this year to offer four residencies to artists specialising in composition/music, crafts/design, literature and visual art. This year, the visual […]
Cove Park’s programme of Early Career Residencies supports UK-based artists in the process of establishing their careers, providing an opportunity for research and the development of new work at this crucial stage. We are pleased this year to offer four residencies to artists specialising in composition/music, crafts/design, literature and visual art. This year, the crafts/design […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
Cove Park’s International Literature Residency supports an international writer at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, career stages and nationalities. Previous […]
This new programme has been introduced for 2018. Cove Park is committed to supporting film and artists’ moving image in all of its forms and sees the partnership with LUX Scotland and the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival as a significant development. Whilst at Cove Park Kimberley O’Neill will work on a new moving […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
With this one-month residency Cove Park aims to provide designers and makers based in Scotland with the support required to develop new work at a crucial stage in their careers. Emer Tumilty is an artist and illustrator from Co. Down, Northern Ireland, now based in Glasgow. Emer studied both Architecture and Visual Communication at Glasgow School […]
This new programme has been introduced for 2018. Cove Park is committed to supporting film and artists’ moving image in all of its forms and sees the partnership with LUX Scotland and the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival as a significant development. Andrew Black is an artist, organiser and cook from the North of […]
Krista Belle Stewart lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is known for her ability to draw out the complexities of archival material that allow for both intimacy, coincidence, and an atemporal meeting of histories across time. Working with video, photography, design, ephemera and textiles, Stewart straddles the gaps between personal and institutional histories through transparent mediation. […]
This residency supports an emerging visual artist based in Scotland and is generously supported by The Bridge Awards. Rhona Mühlebach received her first degree (a BA in Cinema) from the University of Art and Design in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2014. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art’s Master of Fine Art course in 2017. Describing the […]
The UK Craft Residency supports an established designer/maker at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Previous residents on this programme include Linda Brothwell, Linda Florence, Charlotte Linton, Lina […]
Charlie Prodger works with video, printed matter, sculpture and performance, exploring the intertextual relationships between each of these materials. Narrative fragments gleaned from different places and points of her life are shown in parallel, revealing an ongoing enquiry into the intimate contingency of materials. Much of her work looks at what happens to speech – […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
Cove Park’s International Crafts programme expresses our commitment to supporting emerging and established international designer/makers and creating ways in which these individuals can engage with artists, organisations and audiences in Scotland. Previous international craft residents include Erno Langenberg, Hannah Waldron, Nick Ross, Hilda Hellstrom, Carolina Apolonia, Johannes Nagel, Anja Lapatsch and Annika Unger and Tilleke […]
Grace Schwindt lives and works in London. Her work draws on the fields of theatre, dance, film, sculpture and music. Typically, she takes singular events, individuals, objects or stories as points of departure. Her process often originates from specific research and conversations with activists, politicians or family members. She states that ‘Each work is part […]
ektor garcia lives and works in Mexico City and New York City. Working primarily in sculpture, he has described his practice as ‘An exploration of materials, craft techniques, experiments and failures. Lately, crochet, sewing, ceramics, drawing and welding all factor in and coexist in unusual compositions.’ At Cove Park, ektor will continue to develop these […]
This residency supports an established designer/maker based in Scotland. Its aim is to provide the artist with the time and space to explore new ideas and ways of working within Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Without the requirement of a final project or presentation, this residency is intended to promote the development of new […]
This new programme has been introduced for 2018. Cove Park is committed to supporting film and artists’ moving image in all of its forms and sees the partnership with LUX Scotland and the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival as a significant development. Stina Wirfelt lives and works in Glasgow. She will use her time […]
Rose Ruane was originally a visual artist working in performance, sculpture, drawing and video. Stories and language were always part of her art practice, but as the written word crept further and further into her art and gradually edged out making and performing, she had to admit it that she had become a writer instead. […]
Cove Park’s International Crafts programme expresses our commitment to supporting emerging and established international designer/makers and creating ways in which these individuals can engage with artists, organisations and audiences in Scotland. Previous international craft residents include Erno Langenberg, Hannah Waldron, Nick Ross, Hilda Hellstrom, Carolina Apolonia, Johannes Nagel Anja Lapatsch and Annika Unge, and Tilleke […]
Lotte Gertz’s studio-based practice involves painting, printmaking and collage. She works on various types of unprimed fabric and linen, typically by-passing the stretcher by attaching the fabric straight to the wall. Often using mono-printing to begin these works, she then develops the painting by using watercolour, acrylic and collage. In this way her work alludes […]
David Sherry’s work includes performance, drawing, painting, video, sculpture and sound. He has stated that ‘Many of my ideas uncover thoughts and opinions that underlie the public face of etiquette or small talk. I often reflect on cultural codes, asking questions of basic learned behaviours… Central to my approach is ‘play’. I use the different processes […]
This four week residency is offered to a writer based in Scotland who may not yet have published a work but demonstrates exceptional promise. It is an opportunity to develop a work in progress and to meet and work alongside established artists across all disciplines. This year’s residency has been awarded to Shola von Reynolds. Shola […]
This new programme was launched in 2018. Cove Park is committed to supporting film and artists’ moving image in all of its forms and sees the partnership with LUX Scotland and the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival as a significant development. Jamie Crewe is an artist, a singer and a vicious changeling who lives in Glasgow. They […]
Rosanna Irvine is an artist and choreographer working in performance, installation, digital media and writing – including written choreographic scores. Her work is presented in theatre, gallery and public spaces as well as on the page and online. Rosanna’s approach involves working with relational and material processes through specific qualities of attention and perception. This […]
Amang Hung was born and raised on the east coast of Taiwan. She is the author of four volumes of verse: On/Off: Selected Poems of Amang, 1995-2002 (2003), No Daddy (2008), Chariots of Women (2016) and As We Embrace Thousands Are Dying (2016). Her work has appeared in various print and online journals in Asia and the USA. An avid blogger and mountaineer, Amang makes video documentaries and […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in the development of their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a […]
With this one-month residency Cove Park aims to provide designers and makers based in Scotland with the support required to develop new work at a crucial stage in their careers. Scarlett’s work draws inspiration from the rich diversity of Chaos theory. Exploring imagery with experimental video work such as optical feedback loops Scarlett then transfers […]
Janice Parker returns to Cove Park in November for a one week residency and to facilitate a Dance and Movement Workshop developed as part of our Hands-On Engagement programme. This workshop will take place on Wednesday 8 November 2017 and is for anyone over 50 and interested in dance. For further information, and to reserve […]
The Fenton Arts Trust Early Career residencies, provide the opportunity for an emerging designer/maker based in the UK to spend three weeks at Cove Park working in parallel with artists specialising in visual arts and literature. The participating residents will also benefit from being part of a changing group of national and international artists working […]
Louise Giovanelli’s residency is part of a new programme for early-career writers, makers/designers and visual artists based throughout the UK. The artists will work in parallel on site for three weeks on their own projects during Cove Park’s summer programme and will also have the opportunity to work alongside other national and international artists at […]
This four week residency is offered to a writer based in Scotland who may not yet have published a work but demonstrates exceptional promise. It is an opportunity to develop a work in progress and to meet and work alongside established artists across all disciplines. This year’s residency has been awarded to Heather Parry. Heather is […]
Rebecca Tamas is a London based poet, soon to complete a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at The University of East Anglia. Rebecca was the joint winner of the 2016 Manchester Poetry Prize, and she has most recently had work in The White Review, Best British Poetry 2015, A Poem for Every Year and The Suburban Review. Rebecca’s poetry […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
Cove Park has invited the Glasgow-based visual artist Louise Hopkins to take part in this year’s summer programme. This residency will support the development of a new project and enable Louise to focus upon the research and studio work required to take this to the next stage. Louise makes paintings and drawings directly onto surfaces […]
Jordan Baseman is a visual artist and filmmaker. His work adopts some of the strategies (specifically the recorded interview) used by journalists, oral historians, anthropologists, criminologists, social scientists and other academics, and combines this approach with the literary device of creative non-fiction. At Cove Park, Baseman will focus on writing and recording a screenplay for […]
The UK Craft Residency supports an established designer/maker at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Previous residents on this programme include Linda Brothwell, Linda Florence, Charlotte Linton, Lina […]
The UK Craft Residency supports an established designer/maker at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Previous residents on this programme include Linda Brothwell, Linda Florence, Charlotte Linton, Lina […]
Cove Park’s International Literature Residency supports an international writer at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, career stages and nationalities. Previous […]
Cove Park’s International Literature Residency supports an international writer at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, career stages and nationalities. Previous […]
Cove Park’s One-to-One programme was established in 2012 and is designed to support artists working in collaboration. To date, One-to-One residencies have been awarded to Matt Keegan & James Richards, Kelly Dobson & Ilana Halperin, Ruth Beale & Amy Feneck, Shireen Taylor & Sandra Ross, Victor & Hester (Amelia Bywater & Emma Fitts), Sam Watson […]
Cove Park’s International Crafts programme expresses our commitment to supporting emerging and established international designer/makers and creating ways in which these individuals can engage with artists, organisations and audiences in Scotland. Previous international craft residents include Erno Langenberg, Hannah Waldron, Nick Ross, Hilda Hellstrom, Carolina Apolonia, Johannes Nagel and Tilleke Schwartz. Anja Lapatsch and Annika […]
Katrina Palmer’s research uses words, histories and other found entities, in publications, live storytelling and elaborated audio environments. With a particular interest in an expanded conceptualisation of sculpture, she aims to use writing as a means of generating sculptural works. Here sculpture is interpreted as an activity, a way of thinking as opposed to any […]
Film directing was a simple choice for Lou McLoughlan as the only way of joining speech to images without sacrificing either. After ten years of practising and learning her craft she found her film-voice under world-renowned tutor, Emma Davie, at Edinburgh College of Art. Other inspiration came from documentary maker Perjo Honkasalo who once said, […]
This residency supports an emerging artist based in Scotland and is generously supported by the Bridge Awards. Florrie James is a painter and film-maker based in Glasgow. She has been working with experimental film and loosely defined narrative for several years, occasionally working alone but often in the context of collaborative projects with other writers […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
Anne-Marie Copestake’s work includes film, video, text, performance and sculpture. Collaboration has also been a key part of her practice since 2000 and she is a founder member of both Poster Club (working with other visual artists and using the medium of print as a site for experimental collaborative practice) and the band Muscles of […]
Robin Haig is a writer/director from the Scottish Highlands. Her stories, both fiction and documentary, focus on human connectedness and examine our relationship with self, each other and the land. Her recent film Hula, starring Blyth Duff, won a BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award for Drama, has been nominated for a Celtic Media Award and […]
With this one-month residency Cove Park aims to provide designers and makers based in Scotland with the support required to develop new work at a crucial stage in their careers. Florence Dwyer is a designer/maker interested in the design of domestic settings and alternative models of living and uses materials such as ceramics, textiles and […]
This residency will support an established designer/maker based in Scotland. Its aim is to provide the artist with the time and space to explore new ideas and ways of working within Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Without the requirement of a final project or presentation, this residency is intended to promote the development of […]
Scott Myles’ practice is both conceptually-based and strongly gestural. He expresses his ideas in varied materials and in many mediums including sculpture, printmaking, painting, text, drawing, photography and performance. He often combines different artistic processes within single artworks or as part of gallery based installations. Furthermore, his works may take shape as print-based paintings, for […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
Although primarily located in sound, Mark Vernon’s practice has developed from the visual arts and he situates his work in a contemporary art context rather than any other sphere. His practice is very varied and is made up of numerous strands taking in radio broadcasts, live performance, field recording, composed works for fixed media, soundtracks […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
Jess Wiesner works primarily in performance, video, image making and sculpture. Her work evolves from the relationship between structures and subjectivity, representation, abstraction and ‘reading’. She often focuses on things that occur by accident whilst the planned ‘thing’ is happening – of making and of history, including the private space of the individual. She hones in […]
This residency, supported for the first time this year by The Bridge Awards, enables an emerging visual artist based in Scotland to develop new work at an important point in their career. This year a four-week residency has been awarded to the Glasgow-based artist Sarah Wright. Sarah’s work focuses upon printmaking and ideas relating to the […]
The UK Craft Residency supports an established designer/maker at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Previous residents on this programme include Will Shannon, James Thompson, Linda Florence, Charlotte […]
Cove Park’s International Literature Residency supports an international writer at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, career stages and nationalities. Previous […]
Laura Aldridge works with a wide range of media and materials – incorporating both craft and sculptural practices – in order to present ideas through different voices and situations. She is interested in the tensions created between works and the dialogue that this produces. She describes her current work as ‘an attempt to draw out […]
This four week residency is offered to a writer based in Scotland who may not yet have published a work but demonstrates exceptional promise. It is an opportunity to develop a work in progress and to meet and work alongside established artists across all disciplines. 2015’s Scottish Emerging Writer was Martin MacInnes, whose debut novel […]
Cove Park’s One-to-One programme was established in 2012 and is designed to support artists working in collaboration. To date, One-to-One residencies have been awarded to Matt Keegan & James Richards, Kelly Dobson & Ilana Halperin, Ruth Beale & Amy Feneck, Shireen Taylor & Sandra Ross, Victor & Hester (Amelia Bywater & Emma Fitts) and Sam […]
Based in London, Simon Bedwell has been exhibiting his work nationally and internationally since the mid 1990s. For the past five years, his practice has focussed upon ceramic sculpture. This began with the artist making his own ‘ornaments’ to accompany other found objects ,in a series of exhibitions (from 2006 – 2009) based partly upon […]
The UK Craft Residency supports an established designer/maker at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Previous residents on this programme include Will Shannon, James Thompson, Linda Florence, Charlotte […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
Dane Mitchell’s practice — which involves installation and sculpture — explores ephemeral phenomena on the threshold of perceptibility. In particular the work investigates a form of ‘plastic invisibility’, exploring territories of transformation between physical states, and seeks to frame, invoke or reify material and sensory qualities which are marginal, unstable, dynamic or transitional. One material […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
Cove Park’s International Crafts programme expresses our commitment to supporting established international designer/makers and creating ways in which these individuals can engage with artists, organisations and audiences in Scotland. Previous international craft residents include Hannah Waldron, Nick Ross, Hilda Hellstrom, Carolina Apolonia, Johannes Nagel and Tilleke Schwartz. Erno Langenberg is the founder of ELstudio an […]
Douglas Morland works across a broad range of media including sculpture, installation, printmaking, video and sound. The transmission and reception of information and the ability (or lack thereof) of a material to mediate between these poles is crucial to his practice. The objects, films and other works he creates often involve repetition, corruption and distortion, […]
With this one-month residency Cove Park aims to provide designers and makers based in Scotland with the support required to develop new work at a crucial stage in their careers. Jennifer Kent is a knitwear designer inspired by the heritage, integrity and expertise found within the Scottish textiles industry, and is particularly interested in how interactions from the […]
Cove Park’s first Film Residency will take place this May 2016. It seeks to support a mid-career screenwriter / director, based in Scotland, making self-authored work, and has been awarded to Ainslie Henderson. Ainslie is a writer/director/animator/who in 2012 was awarded a BAFTA for his co-writing of ‘The Making of Longbird’. Ainslie’s films “I Am […]
Cove Park’s One-to-One programme was established in 2012 and is designed to support artists working in collaboration. To date, One-to-One residencies have been awarded to Matt Keegan & James Richards, Kelly Dobson & Ilana Halperin, Ruth Beale & Amy Feneck, Shireen Taylor & Sandra Ross and Victor & Hester (Amelia Bywater & Emma Fitts). This […]
This year’s Emerging Visual Arts residency has been awarded to the Glasgow-based artist Lauren Printy Currie. Currie makes sculptural objects and installations that explore experience and perception. Often using purposefully unpredictable casting and relief processes, she assembles sculptures, imagery, light projections and writing to create layers of material and colour into groups that emphasise the […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
Cove Park’s International Literature Residency supports a significant international writer at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, career stages and nationalities. […]
Cove Park’s International Crafts programme expresses our commitment to supporting established international designer/makers and creating ways in which these individuals can engage with artists, organizations and audiences in Scotland. Previous international craft residents include Nick Ross, Hilda Hellstrom, Carolina Apolonia, Johannes Nagel and Tilleke Schwartz. Hannah Waldron is a weaver based in both Stockholm and […]
This residency will support an established designer/maker from Scotland. Its aim is to provide the artist with the time and space to explore new ideas and ways of working within Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Without the requirement of a final project or presentation, this residency is intended to promote the development of new […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
With this one-month residency Cove Park aims to provide designers and makers based in Scotland with the support required to develop new work at a crucial stage in their careers. Laura Lightbody is a ceramic designer working in Glasgow. Her current practice involves the collection and reuse of stickers, labels and signage found on consumer goods […]
The Jerwood Residencies 2015 support the creation of new work and new ways of working by Scottish artists working collaboratively. Generously funded by the Jerwood charitable trust since 2002, four residencies of two weeks each focus on research and experiment rather than development of a specific project and take place within the interdisciplinary setting of […]
The Jerwood Residencies support the creation of new work and new ways of working by Scottish artists working collaboratively. Generously funded by the Jerwood charitable trust since 2002, four residencies of two weeks each focus on research and experiment rather than development of a specific project and take place within the interdisciplinary setting of Cove […]
Paul P. (born Canda, 1977) lives and works between Paris, New York and Toronto. He is known for paintings and works on paper engaged primarily with portraiture, and with the production of an archive of male faces culled from photographs found in gay magazines dating from the late 1960s to the early 1980s; specifically, the […]
Margaret Salmon makes film based installations and shorts combining her interests in historical film methods, human and animal behavior, social relationships, realist storytelling and observational filmmaking. She looks to explore the hinterlands of traditional film language and technique while engaging with and critiquing everyday themes and notions in Western culture, presenting audiences with carefully rendered […]
This residency will support an established designer/maker from Scotland. Its aim is to provide the artist with the time and space to explore new ideas and ways of working within Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Without the requirement of a final project or presentation, this residency is intended to promote the development of new […]
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]
Jenna Watt is an award winning director and theatre maker. Her works include the fringe first award winning Flâneurs (Battersea Arts Centre, Play Pieces, Contact, Traverse Theatre, Mayfest, Woodend Barn, Tron Theatre, Big Burns Supper, Cumbernauld Theatre) Little Vikings are Never Lost (The Arches, National Review of Live Art) and It’s OK, It’s Only Temporary; […]
Kathryn Elkin works predominantly with performance, writing and video. She is interested in memory, nostalgia, abstraction and in the trauma of the performing body, or a traumatic split between body and mind, with particular focus on the roles of language, sex and gender. The subject matter in the content of the writing/script element of her […]
The UK Emerging Writer residency is a new addition to the programme for 2015. The writer comes to Cove Park for two weeks and is given space and time to develop their ideas in a community of artists, along with the opportunity to make new contacts and meet others in the arts. Sarah Shapiro was […]
Cove Park’s Scottish Emerging Writer supports a new writer who shows exceptional promise at a critical juncture in their writing life. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, within the context of a professional residency. The residency also offers […]
Toby Paterson is known for his gallery-based installations of painting and sculpture and the numerous commissions he has undertaken for indoor and outdoor public spaces. The forms and ideas inherent in architecture inspire his work, yet architecture is not explicitly its subject. Although he is currently particularly interested in the post-war reinvention of cities under […]
The UK Craft Residency supports an established designer/maker at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Previous residents on this programme include James Thompson, Linda Florence, Charlotte Linton, Lina […]
Visual artist Alison Turnbull returns to Cove Park to develop her ongoing project with the Rosneath peninsula’s Linn Botanic Gardens. This involves the creation of temporary public art work for the gardens and an artist publication produced in collaboration with the writer Philip Hoare.
This residency offers an international writer the opportunity to develop their interdisciplinary projects and ideas in Cove Park’s supportive environment and to make useful contacts across the artforms in Scotland, the UK and further afield. This year the residency has been awarded to Lizhen Liang. A poet, translator, curator and graduate of the Slade, Lizhen […]
Following an intense period of production and presentation, Cara Tolmie’s four-week residency will enable the artist to reflect upon recent performance and moving image projects, such as ‘Pley’ and ‘Otiumfold’ (both 2013), and to develop a strategy and score for a new moving image work in 2014. Cove Park’s UK Visual Arts Residencies support established […]
Sarah Forrest’s videos and installations reflect the central importance of literature to her practice. The influence of fiction, theory and philosophy manifests itself in her work both visually and through written components (usually spoken word narration). Her recent video installation ‘I Left it on Page 32’ (for her solo exhibition at Glasgow’s CCA in 2013) […]
The Scottish Emerging Writer residency offers an outstanding writer at the beginning of their career a period of four weeks to develop their craft in the supportive atmosphere of Cove Park, alongside professional artists across all disciplines. This residency is a rare opportunity for a new writer to experience Cove Park and all it offers, […]
Irish artist Martin Healy works primarily through the mediums of film, photography and installation. His practice explores the connection between belief systems, mythology and the phenomena of perception and how these intersect through recorded imagery or sound. Recent films by the artist, such as ‘Facsimile’, ‘Fugue’ and ‘Last man’, reference popular culture, early science fiction […]
Tyler Coburn is a visual artist and writer based in New York. His practice, which includes writing, readings, performance, installation and video, focuses on modes of sociality and subjectivity facilitated by technology. One recent project, ‘I’m that angel’ (2012/2013), surveys data centres, co-location facilities and server farms: the sites that store ‘the cloud’. This project […]
Malika Booker is a writer, spoken word and multidisciplinary artist, whose work spans literature, education and cross-arts. She has appeared world-wide both independently and with the British Council. She is an experienced creative writing course leader and has run courses for various organisations including the Arvon Foundation, the Royal National Theatre and the Young Vic. She jointly runs […]
Millicent A. A. Graham was born 1974 in Kingston, Jamaica. She is the author of the poetry collection The Damp In Things, published by Peepal Tree Press in 2009. Millicent was a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference in 2010 and one of 15 writers selected for the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program […]
The International Literature Residency offers an established writer based outside the UK a period of at least six weeks at Cove Park during the summer programme. The International Writer works on their own projects in the supportive environment of Cove Park, and also has the opportunity to make new contacts with writers and artists in […]
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 was the 2013 Jacobs Ladder resident. Mirka Janeckova is a jeweller and a recent graduate from the Silversmithing and Jewellery department at Glasgow School of […]
This six week residency aims to support an established designer/maker based in Scotland. It provides the artist with the time and space to explore new ideas and ways of working within Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Without the requirement of a final project or presentation, this residency is intended to promote the development of […]
Cove Park’s One-to-One programme was established in 2012 and is designed to support artists working in collaboration. This year, the residency has been awarded to Victor & Hester, an ongoing collaborative project between visual artists Amelia Bywater and Emma Fitts. Launched in 2010, Victor & Hester work collaboratively with both Scotland-based and international artists to […]
Ruth Claxton is known for her large scale, site responsive installations and public sculptures which often use reflective and mirrored surfaces to create complex, interconnecting visual ‘worlds’ inhabited by smaller figurative works. Referencing display systems and architecture, and drawing on languages of art, craft and design, these works usually consist of a series of evolving […]
Cove Park’s International Crafts programme expresses our commitment to supporting established international designer/makers and creating ways in which these individuals can engage with artists, organizations and audiences in Scotland. Previous international craft residents include Hilda Hellstrom, Carolina Apolonia, Johannes Nagel and Tilleke Schwartz. Nick Ross is a product designer based in Sweden. His work focuses […]
Typographer, writer and curator Will Holder will be based at Cove Park for three weeks this summer, producing a formal analysis of the commentary that three twentieth century calligraphers wrote alongside their work. Cove Park has a long history of supporting national and international art writers and curators through its visual arts programme. Former residents […]
The Scottish Literature Residency offers a writer based in Scotland a period of up to six weeks to develop their own work in the supportive atmosphere of Cove Park, and the opportunity to broaden their practice by making new contacts with artists and writers from Scotland and beyond. In 2014 our Scottish Writers are Michael […]
This year’s Emerging Visual Arts residency has been awarded to the Glasgow-based artist Lauren Gault. Working primarily in sculptural installation, her work features made and found objects, elemental materials and process based works, all of which are selected for their specific histories and component properties. Gault is interested in how an object may be inhabited […]
The Scottish Literature Residency offers a writer based in Scotland a period of up to six weeks to develop their own work in the supportive atmosphere of Cove Park, and the opportunity to broaden their practice by making new contacts with artists and writers from Scotland and beyond. In 2014 our Scottish Writers are Michael […]
The Scottish Literature Residency offers a writer based in Scotland a period of at up to six weeks to develop their own work in the supportive atmosphere of Cove Park, and the opportunity to broaden their practice by making new contacts with artists and writers from Scotland and beyond. In 2014 our Scottish Writers are […]
The UK Literature Residency offers an established writer based in the UK a period of unfettered time to work on their own projects as part of Cove Park’s summer programme. This year’s UK Writer is Ellen Aaku. Recent UK Literature Residents include Joe Dunthorne, Rachel Cusk, Russell Celyn Jones, Helen Cross. Ellen Banda-Aaku was born […]
With this one-month residency Cove Park aims to provide designers and makers based in Scotland with the support required to develop new work at a crucial stage in their careers. Maeve Redmond is an independent, Glasgow based designer. Redmond’s practice is research driven and often draws upon social and historical references. She works across print, […]
This eight-week residency supports an established designer/maker at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Previous residents on this programme include Linda Florence, Charlotte Linton, Lina Peterson, Joe Pipal, […]
The Scottish Literature residency offers a writer resident in Scotland the opportunity to work on their own project whilst in the company of artists across other artforms. The residency, of up to six weeks in length, can be for writers in any genre, including poetry, memoir and fiction. Previous Scottish Writer residents include Jen Hadfield, […]
Glasgow-based artist Alex Frost will be based at Cove Park for two weeks this September. This residency will enable the artist to research and develop new work that we hope to present on site at Cove Park in 2014. He will return to Cove Park in the spring next year for a second residency. Alex […]
This residency supports an established visual artist based in Scotland at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Based in Glasgow, Roderick Buchanan has shown widely throughout the UK […]
The UK Literature residency offers a writer resident anywhere in Britain the opportunity to work on their own project whilst in the company of artists across other artforms. The residency, of up to six weeks in length, can be for writers in any genre, including poetry, memoir and fiction. Previous UK Writer residents include Brian […]
The Scottish Literature residency offers a writer resident in Scotland the opportunity to work on their own project whilst in the company of artists across other artforms. The residency, of up to six weeks in length, can be for writers in any genre, including poetry, memoir and fiction. Previous Scottish Writer residents include Jen Hadfield, […]
The UK Literature residency offers a writer resident anywhere in Britain the opportunity to work on their own project whilst in the company of artists across other artforms. The residency, of up to six weeks in length, can be for writers in any genre, including poetry, memoir and fiction. Previous UK Writer residents include Brian […]
This residency aims to support a Scottish emerging or established designer/maker. It provides the artist with the time and space to explore new ideas and ways of working within Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Without the requirement of a final project or presentation, this residency is intended to promote the development of new ideas […]
The UK Literature residency offers a writer resident anywhere in Britain the opportunity to work on their own project whilst in the company of artists across other artforms. The residency, of up to six weeks in length, can be for writers in any genre, including poetry, memoir and fiction. Previous UK Writer residents include Brian […]
This six-week residency supports an established designer/maker at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Previous residents on this programme include Charlotte Linton, Lina Peterson, Joe Pipal, Pottinger and […]
A continuing relationship with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation underpins Cove Park’s performing arts residencies. They are run in partnership with Fuel Theatre Services and Trigger through whom high-profile artists make critically-acclaimed work at Cove Park, whether destined for the Edinburgh Festival or across the UK.
Cove Park’s UK Visual Arts Residencies support established visual artists based in the United Kingdom. These residencies enable artists to develop new work and, in many cases for the first time, to spend a prolonged period living and working in Scotland. Recent residents include Adam Chodzko, Mike Cooter, Chris Evans, Ruth Ewan, Anja Kirschner, Olivia […]
The UK Literature residency offers a writer resident anywhere in Britain the opportunity to work on their own project whilst in the company of artists across other artforms. The residency, of up to six weeks in length, can be for writers in any genre, including poetry, memoir and fiction. Previous UK Writer residents include Brian Chikwava, […]
This two-month residency aims to support a Scottish emerging or established designer/maker. It provides the artist with the time and space to explore new ideas and ways of working within Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Without the requirement of a final project or presentation, this residency is intended to promote the development of new […]
The Craignish Trust has now supported Cove Park for eight years. This year the Trust’s generosity has made possible a six-week residency for the Glasgow-based visual artist Lorna Macintyre. Cove Park’s Emerging Artists programme provides artists with the support required to develop new work at a key stage in their careers. Previous residents on this […]
Visual artist Alison Turnbull returns to Cove Park to develop her ongoing project with Linn Botanic Gardens. This involves the creation of temporary public art work for the gardens and an artist publication produced in collaboration with the writer Philip Hoare.
Cove Park’s International Crafts programme expresses our commitment to supporting established international designer/makers and creating ways in which these individuals can engage with artists, organizations and audiences in Scotland. Previous international craft residents include Carolina Apolonia, Johannes Nagel and Tilleke Schwartz. Hilda Hellstrom is a Swedish product designer. Since graduating from the RCA in 2012 […]
This residency of up to three months offers an established international writer the opportunity to develop their current project whilst in the company of other artists from across the artforms. Previous International Writers include Yang Lian, Christos Tsiolkas and Caine Prize winner Olufemi Terry. Our International writer in 2013 is Chika Unigwe. Chika was born […]
The Scottish Literature residency offers a writer resident in Scotland the opportunity to work on their own project whilst in the company of artists across other artforms. The residency, of up to six weeks in length, can be for writers in any genre, including poetry, memoir and fiction. Previous Scottish Writer residents include Jen Hadfield, […]
The Jerwood Charitable Foundation fund a series of residencies at Cove Park for performing artists. Composer Pippa Murphy joins us in May. As a composer Pippa has been involved in performances, recordings, collaborations, installations and multimedia work in the UK and abroad. She has written music for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, Scottish Opera, […]
Cove Park is committed to supporting established international artists and creating ways in which these individuals can engage with artists, organizations and audiences in Scotland. Previous international visual arts residents include Jumana Abboud, Bik van der Pol, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Mariana Castillo Deball, Takahiro Iwasaki, Matt Keegan, Matts Leiderstam, Sean Lynch and Jan Verwoert. Our 2013 […]
The UK Literature residency offers a writer resident anywhere in Britain the opportunity to work on their own project whilst in the company of artists across other artforms. The residency, of up to six weeks in length, can be for writers in any genre, including poetry, memoir and fiction. Previous UK Writer residents include Brian […]
With this one-month residency Cove Park aims to provide designers and makers based in Scotland with the support required to develop new work at a crucial stage in their careers. Naomi McIntosh is an applied artist working in Aberdeenshire. With a background in architecture her practice as a jeweller investigates the perception of space and […]
The UK Literature residency offers a writer resident anywhere in Britain the opportunity to work on their own project whilst in the company of artists across other artforms. The residency, of up to six weeks in length, can be for writers in any genre, including poetry, memoir and fiction. Previous UK Writer residents include Brian […]
Our 2013 Creative Catalyst programme focuses on Cove Park’s natural landscape and is generously funded by the Big Lottery. Architect Robin Webster will bring together ecologists, landscape architects, stonemasons, urban designers, geologists, poets and visual artists to look at the nature and potential of the Argyll coastline, possible scenarios and consequences and to apply their collective expertise to […]
This two-month residency supports a visual artist based in Scotland at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Previous residents on this programme include Roderick Buchanan, Melanie Carvalho, Henry […]
One-to-One is a new programme designed to support artists working collaboratively. Following a call for applications earlier this year, Cove Park has awarded four one-week residencies to enable visual artists to develop their collaborative practices and projects. Matt Keegan and James Richards have worked together for two years on collaborative art works and curatorial projects. […]
Visual artist Alison Turnbull and writer Phillip Hoare came together on a one-week residency at Cove Park in 2011 to initiate a collaborative publication inspired by a visit Alison made to the Rosneath peninsula’s Linn Botanical Gardens in 2011. This second one-week residency will enable the artists to develop the publication further and continue their […]
This series of residencies, running this year during July and August is for writers from anywhere in the UK to develop their own projects within the supportive interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park. This year two novelists have been awarded a residency and are coming for between two weeks and one month. The UK residencies are […]
This residency supports an established visual artist based in Scotland at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Based in Glasgow, Roderick Buchanan has shown widely throughout the UK […]
One-to-One is a new programme designed to support artists working collaboratively. Following a call for applications earlier this year, Cove Park has awarded four one-week residencies to enable visual artists to develop their collaborative practices and projects. Kelly Dobson is a visual artist based in Cambridge, Massachusets, USA; Ilana Halperin is a visual artist based […]
Cove Park’s international programme expresses our commitment to supporting established international artists and creating ways in which these individuals can engage with artists, organizations and audiences in Scotland. Previous international visual arts residents include Jumana Abboud, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Takahiro Iwasaki, Matts Leiderstam and Jan Verwoert. Based in County Limerick, Ireland, Sean Lynch works in a […]
Cove Park’s international crafts programme expresses our commitment to supporting established international designer makers and creating ways in which these individuals can engage with artists, organizations and audiences in Scotland. Previous international craft residents include Johannes Nagel and Tilleke Schwartz. Based in the Netherlands, Carolina Apolonia studied silversmithing and contemporary jewellery. Working individually and as […]
One-to-One is a new programme designed to support artists working collaboratively. Following a call for applications earlier this year, Cove Park has awarded four one-week residencies to enable artists to develop their collaborative practices and projects. Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck are both visual artists based in London. They are collaborating together for the first […]
This series of residencies, running this year during July and August is for writers from anywhere in the UK to develop their own projects within the supportive interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park. This year two novelists have been awarded a residency and are coming for between two weeks and one month. The UK residencies are […]
This series of residencies starts in May and runs through until August 2012 and is for writers to spend time on their own projects in the supportive interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park. Writers based in Scotland are eligible, and this year the three writers come from the fields of both prose and poetry and are […]
This six-week residency supports an established maker/designer at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Previous residents on this programme include Joe Pipal, Pottinger and Cole and Lucian Taylor. […]
The exchange of ideas and inspiration is at the heart of the Cove Park experience. To develop this further, Cove Park with the help of Jerwood launched the Creative Catalysts programme in 2011. Creative Catalysts are people of distinction from the arts, science, academia, or more generally from public life, who are invited to Cove […]
This series of residencies starts in May and runs through until August 2012 and is for writers to spend time on their own projects in the supportive interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park. Writers based in Scotland are eligible, and this year the three writers come from the fields of both prose and poetry and are […]
The Craignish Trust has now supported Cove Park for seven years and this year has made possible a one-month residency for the Glasgow-based visual artist Ross Hamilton Frew. Cove Park’s Emerging Visual Artists programme provides artists with the support required to develop new work at a crucial stage in their careers. Previous residents on this […]
Cove Park’s UK Visual Arts Residencies support established visual artists based in the United Kingdom. These residencies enable artists to develop new work and, in many cases for the first time, to spend a prolonged period living and working in Scotland. Mike Cooter is based in London. His work – in sculpture, installation and video […]
This residency supports an established visual artist based in Scotland at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Previous residents on this programme include Henry Coombes, Luke Fowler, Fiona […]
This six-week residency supports an established maker/designer at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Previous residents on this programme include Joe Pipal, Pottinger and Cole and Lucian Taylor. […]
One-to-One is a new residency programme designed to support artists working collaboratively. Following a call for applications earlier this year, Cove Park has awarded four one-week residencies to enable visual artists to develop their collaborative practices and projects. Sandra Ross and Shireen Taylor are curators/visual artists based in London and Glasgow respectively. In January 2012 […]
This series of residencies starts in May and runs through until August 2012 and is for writers to spend time on their own projects in the supportive interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park. Writers based in Scotland are eligible, and this year the three writers come from the fields of both prose and poetry and are […]
This two-month residency aims to support a Scottish emerging or established designer/maker. It provides the artist with the time and space to explore new ideas and ways of working within Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Without the requirement of a final project or presentation, this residency is intended to promote the development of new […]
This residency places professional artists in special educational needs departments of schools in the Argyll & Bute region. It is supported by the Robertson Trust, St James Place Foundation, J N Marshall Island of Bute Trust and Argyll & Bute Trust. Artists are based at Cove Park for four weeks, during which time they can concentrate on […]
These two week residencies are run by Cove Park in collaboration with HI-Arts Craft Development. The residencies provide the time and space for makers/designers to focus exclusively on their own practice and ideas and is specifically aimed at supporting individuals living in the Highland Council area. Following on from the residencies, the successful makers will […]
This three-week residency supports the work of an international artist working in a craft medium. It has been developed in collaboration with Deveron Arts: an artist residency organisation in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, and is the result of a Creative Scotland funded Craft Curator’s research trip to India in 2010. Priya Ravish Mehra is a textile artist […]
This residency is for a writer of international renown who comes to Cove Park for up to four weeks. During their stay the resident is the guest of honour at events in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and also has time at Cove Park to work on their own projects. During her residency Anne Carson will be […]
The creative writing programme at University College London’s Birkbeck is a leader in the field and has partnered with Cove Park to establish a residency for their outstanding graduate of 2011. The resident is the winner of Birkbeck’s Sophie Warne Memorial Essay Prize. This four-week residency gives an emerging writer their first taste of a […]
These residencies of up to six weeks each are awarded to writers based in Scotland. They offer support to an established writer of poetry, fiction or drama at a critical point in their career, providing opportunities for networking and building connections with other artists and writers, as well as undisturbed and unstructured solitude. Rodge is […]
These residencies of up to six weeks each are awarded to writers based in Scotland. They offer support to an established writer of poetry, fiction or drama at a critical point in their career, providing opportunities for networking and building connections with other artists and writers, as well as undisturbed and unstructured solitude. Clare Wigfall […]
These residencies of up to six weeks each are awarded to writers based in Scotland. They offer support to an established writer of poetry, fiction or drama at a critical point in their career, providing opportunities for networking and building connections with other artists and writers, as well as undisturbed and unstructured solitude. At Cove […]
Cove Park is committed to supporting and promoting work in specialist art forms and this two-month residency supports an established UK based artist working in ceramics. The residency is supported by the G & E Pollitzer Charitable Settlement, the Craignish Trust and the London Talks Series. Its purpose to provide the artist with time and […]
This two-month residency supports an established designer/maker based in the UK. It enables them at a key stage in their career to take time out to explore new ideas and ways of working within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Lina Peterson is a jeweller based in London. She is interested in […]
This three-month residency brings an established writer from abroad to Cove Park. The residency supports a writer for a significant period, giving the opportunity to finish important projects and to research and explore new directions in the writer’s work, as well as to experience fully the life and setting of Cove Park. Additionally the residency […]
This six-week residency supports an emerging or established designer/maker based in Scotland. The aim is to provide the artist with the time and space to explore new ideas and ways of working within Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Without the requirement for solutions or end results, this period is intended to encourage the possibilities […]
This residency of up to six weeks is offered to a talented new writer who would benefit from time to write, as well as networking opportunities with other writers, artists and arts professionals. The emerging writer is resident alongside professional artists and writers and takes part equally in the life of Cove Park. Alan Gillespie […]
These residencies of up to six weeks each are awarded to writers based in Scotland. They offer support to an established writer of poetry, fiction or drama at a critical point in their career, providing opportunities for networking and building connections with other artists and writers, as well as undisturbed and unstructured solitude. Donny O’Rourke […]
This three-week residency supports the work of an international artist working in a craft medium. It provides valuable time and space in which to explore new ideas and approaches to practice in the rural context of Cove Park. International artists and designers form an integral part of our programme. In addition to focusing on the […]
Cove Park’s UK Visual Arts Residencies support leading visual artists based in the United Kingdom. These residencies enable established artists to develop new work and make significant developments in their practice. Chris Evans is based in London and Brussels. His projects evolve through conversations with people from diverse walks of life, selected in relation to […]
Cove Park’s UK Visual Arts Residencies support established visual artists based in the United Kingdom. These residencies enable artists to develop new work and, in many cases for the first time, to spend a prolonged period living and working in Scotland. Alison Turnbull is based in London and her paintings and drawings have been shown […]
Cove Park, with generous support from the Craignish Trust, continues to support the development of emerging visual artists from Scotland and throughout the UK. Previous residents on this programme include Pio Abad, Giles Bailey, Sara Barker, Lucy Clout, Nick Evans and Charlotte Prodger. Artists are provided with the support required to develop new work at […]
This two-month residency supports an established visual artist, based in Scotland, at a key stage in their career. It enables the artist to undertake research, explore new ideas and make significant developments in their practice within the context of Cove Park’s international and cross-disciplinary programme. Previous residents on this programme include Luke Fowler, Fiona Jardine […]
These residencies of up to six weeks each are awarded to writers based in Scotland. They offer support to an established writer of poetry, fiction or drama at a critical point in their career, providing opportunities for networking and building connections with other artists and writers, as well as undisturbed and unstructured solitude. At Cove […]
Supported by the Craignish Trust, Cove Park’s Emerging Visual Artists programme provides artists with the support required to develop new work at a crucial stage in their careers. Previous residents on this programme include Pio Abad, Giles Bailey, Sara Barker, Lucy Clout and Nick Evans. Charlie Prodger is a visual artist based in Glasgow. Working […]
Cove Park is committed to supporting and promoting work in specialist art forms and this one month residency supports an established UK based artist working in ceramics. The residency is supported by the G & E Pollitzer Charitable Settlement, the Craignish Trust and the London Talks Series. Its purpose to provide the artist with time […]
Born Stoke on Trent, 1964, lives and works in Glasgow. Alan Currall studied Fine Art and Staffordshire University and received an MFA from Glasgow School of Art in 1995. Currall makes video and computer-based works, often depicting himself or other protagonists talking directly to the camera. A recurring theme within this body of work has […]
Panel, established by curators Catriona Duffy & Lucy McEachan in 2009, is an independent creative consultancy based in Glasgow, aims to promote contemporary design practice locally and internationally through exhibitions, events and cultural projects. Panel collaborates with a network of creative individuals and organisations. In March 2010 Panel were selected as one of the first […]
James McLardy studied Architecture from 1994 to 1996 and went on to study Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art from 1996 to 1999. By subverting the values of both modern objects and the techniques of the artisan, McLardy’s work collages the fake and the real nature of materials. Whether sand blasting a bronze casted […]
Working in print, performance and installation, Ruth Ewan’s practice begins in a period of independent research and results in conceptually led but socially realised projects. She is interested in creating an altered state of historical or cultural engagement for the viewer, often considering overlooked or invisible threads of radical histories, their failings and potentials.
Cove Park’s 2010 UK Visual Arts Residency was awarded to Adam Chodzko. Born in London in 1965, Chodzko lives and works in Whitstable, Kent. Since 1991 he has exhibited extensively in national and international solo and group exhibitions. His one month residency at Cove Park in 2010 enabled the artist to develop new work for two forthcoming […]
The 2010 Scottish Crafts Residency was awarded to the Glasgow-based textile artist Deirdre Nelson.
The 2010 Scottish Visual Arts Residency was awarded to the Glasgow-based visual artist Luke Fowler. This three-month residency enabled the artist to embark on a large scale, research-based film project, concentrating on the ideas of the Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing. This work brought together two discrete tendencies that embody Fowler’s practice: the construction of ‘truth’ […]
Born Blackpool, 1977, lives and works in London. Gemma’s work crosses the boundaries between art and design. After a degree in Interactive Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, she studied Design Products at the Royal College of Art, London. Her practice combines conceptual and functional concerns, engaging with everyday objects such as biros, rulers and sheets […]
Moira Jeffrey has written extensively about Scottish art for national newspapers and magazines over the past decade. As a journalist and broadcaster she investigates the space where expertise and specialism meets a wider public sphere. At Cove Park, Moira intends to focus on developing a full-length publication on recent contemporary Scottish art.
Born in Ottawa, Canada, Ciara Phillips is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art’s MFA programme. She works across a wide range of media, combining three and two dimensional work. The residency at Cove Park allowed Ciara the time to develop new work for a solo exhibition at Washington Garcia, Glasgow, in 2009.
Mark Sladen is a curator. During his time as Director of Exhibitions at the ICA, London, his projects included ‘Nought to Sixty’, a six month season which featured 60 projects by emerging British-based artists. His forthcoming projects include a solo exhibition by Rosalind Nashashibi this autumn. Mark intends to spend his time at Cove Park […]
The Scottish Visual Arts Residency supports an established artists based in Scotland, providing space and time for the research and development of new work. The 2009 residency was awarded to the Glasgow-based visual artist and writer Sarah Tripp. Tripp’s current practice is based on a curiosity about human behaviour and a sensitivity to the coercive aspects […]
Cove Park’s Scottish Crafts Residency supports established and emerging Designers and makers based in Scotland. This three month residency enables makers to research and develop new work without the pressure of exhibiting an outcome. Based in Glasgow, Dawn Youll currently works in slip cast ceramics. By looking at form, colour, surface and arrangement as individual […]
Cove Park’s UK Visual Arts Residencies support established visual artists based in the United Kingdom. These residencies enable artists to develop new work and, in many cases for the first time, to spend a prolonged period living and working in Scotland. Based in London, Gail Pickering’s practice involves performance, installation and video, collaborating with professional […]
Duncan Marquiss is a visual artist, musician and filmmaker. His residency follows a particularly busy period of production and his time at Cove Park will enable uninterrupted research and intensive practical experimentation. Specifically, in terms of his practice as a filmmaker, he will concentrate on the development of script narratives.
Simon Starling’s works often consist of ‘journeys’ that reveal hidden relationships and histories in the process of transforming one object or substance into another. In 2004 he accepted the first Cove Park Commission and developed Autoxylopyrocycloboros: a major project launched in the summer of 2006 that focused on the history and geography of the Clyde […]
Glasgow-based visual artist Stephen Sutcliffe (born Harrogate, 1968) is currently showing work at Talbot Rice Gallery as part of Edinburgh Art Festival. The exhibition, ‘Sex Symbols in Sandwich Signs’, is one of the Festival’s highlights and runs until 27 August 2017. In collaboration with Glasgow-based Director Graham Eatough, Stephen is also showing new work at […]
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 […]
A Dutch curator resident in London, Bart van der Heide has been curating exhibitions at the Cubitt gallery in London for the past year and a half. He has previously worked with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Witte de With, Rotterdam as well as contributing writing to many international art magazines and catalogues. During his […]
The SAC International Crafts residency supports the work of an international artist working in a craft medium. In 2009 it has been awarded to ceramicist Johannes Nagel. Johannes Nagel worked as an apprentice potter with Kinya Ishikawa in Val-David PQ, Canada before studying in the ceramics department of the University of Art & Design Burg Giebichenstein […]
Panel, established by curators Catriona Duffy & Lucy McEachan in 2009, is an independent creative consultancy based in Glasgow, aims to promote contemporary design practice locally and internationally through exhibitions, events and cultural projects. Panel collaborates with a network of creative individuals and organisations. In March 2010 Panel were selected as one of the first […]
Born 1980, Oxfordshire, lives and works in London. Kit Craig’s work has recently expanded from a focus on drawing to the way in which these drawings can be displayed, incorporating sculptural support structures which are echoed in the drawings themselves, setting up a complex set of tensions. He is based in London and is a […]
A continuing relationship with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation underpins Cove Park’s performing arts residencies. They are run in partnership with Fuel Theatre Services and Trigger through whom high-profile artists make critically-acclaimed work at Cove Park, whether destined for the Edinburgh Festival or across the UK.
A continuing relationship with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation underpins Cove Park’s performing arts residencies. They are run in partnership with Fuel Theatre Services and Trigger through whom high-profile artists make critically-acclaimed work at Cove Park, whether destined for the Edinburgh Festival or across the UK.
A continuing relationship with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation underpins Cove Park’s performing arts residencies. They are run in partnership with Fuel Theatre Services and Trigger through whom high-profile artists make critically-acclaimed work at Cove Park, whether destined for the Edinburgh Festival or across the UK. Glen Neath is a writer, artist and theatre-maker. Collaborations include Ring with David […]
A continuing relationship with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation underpins Cove Park’s performing arts residencies. They are run in partnership with Fuel Theatre Services and Trigger through whom high-profile artists make critically-acclaimed work at Cove Park, whether destined for the Edinburgh Festival or across the UK.
A continuing relationship with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation underpins Cove Park’s performing arts residencies. They are run in partnership with Fuel Theatre Services and Trigger through whom high-profile artists make critically-acclaimed work at Cove Park, whether destined for the Edinburgh Festival or across the UK.
A continuing relationship with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation underpins Cove Park’s performing arts residencies. They are run in partnership with Fuel Theatre Services and Trigger through whom high-profile artists make critically-acclaimed work at Cove Park, whether destined for the Edinburgh Festival or across the UK.
A continuing relationship with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation underpins Cove Park’s performing arts residencies. They are run in partnership with Fuel Theatre through whom high-profile artists make critically-acclaimed work at Cove Park, whether destined for the Edinburgh Festival or across the UK. Sound&Fury is a collaborative theatre company directed by Mark Espiner, Tom Espiner and […]
A continuing relationship with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation underpins Cove Park’s performing arts residencies. They are run in partnership with Fuel Theatre through whom high-profile artists make critically-acclaimed work at Cove Park, whether destined for the Edinburgh Festival or across the UK. Sound&Fury is a collaborative theatre company directed by Mark Espiner, Tom Espiner and […]
Sound&Fury is a collaborative theatre company directed by Mark Espiner, Tom Espiner and Dan Jones. It draws on the disciplines of theatre, Foley work (the art of creating sound effects for cinema), sound design, music and storytelling. Its key artistic interest is in developing the sound space of theatre and presenting its audience with new […]
Zeynep Arman is a graphic designer. Originally from Istanbul, she is currently based in Glasgow. After graduating from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art, London, in 1998 with BA Graphic Design, she went on to study for an MFA at Edinburgh College of Art in 2006. She designs and makes artists’ books as commissions and […]
In 2011 the composer Shiori Usui was commissioned jointly by Cove Park and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to write a new piece. This work, Digested Resonance, was produced during a three-week residency at Cove Park and was performed as part of a public workshop with BBC SSO in February 2011. The piece is now in […]
Josie Long is a stand up comedian and writer. In 2006 she won the Best Newcomer award at the Edinburgh Fringe with her debut show Kindness and Exuberance and her most recent show, Be Honourable!, was nominated for the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award. She has written for Skins and Radio Four, and her Radio Four series […]
Since 2005, work under the artistic direction of Nic Green has spanned solo and group theatre performance, community and public art projects, pedagogical and holistic learning experiences and interactive web-based endeavours. She works regularly with individuals and groups of all ages and backgrounds to facilitate transformative and experiential learning processes, using performance and creativity as […]
Clod Ensemble make performance happen in many different contexts, unleashing the extraordinary potential of music and movement for a broad range of audiences and participants. Founded in 1995 by composer Paul Clark and director Suzy Willson, Clod Ensemble produce performances for both traditional performance spaces and unconventional settings, creating work that ‘defies simple classification.’ (The […]
Clod Ensemble make performance happen in many different contexts, unleashing the extraordinary potential of music and movement for a broad range of audiences and participants. Founded in 1995 by composer Paul Clark and director Suzy Willson, Clod Ensemble produce performances for both traditional performance spaces and unconventional settings, creating work that ‘defies simple classification.’ (The […]
Jessica Hemmings writes about textiles. She also writes about fiction that contains textiles, materials that remind us of textiles and other things. She studied Textile Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a BFA (Honors) in 1999 and Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, […]
Fevered Sleep creates new work in performance, visual art and publication, for children and for adults. Whether in theatres, galleries or other places, Fevered Sleep’s work provides exciting and intimate experiences for audiences and encourages people to see the world in new and unexpected ways. Artistic Director David Harradine and his team are working on […]
Inua Ellams is a word and graphic artist based in London. He was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to the UK as a teenager. His work merges visual art, spoken word and theatre, and he is known for his iconic imagery, beauty and attention to detail. He writes about his upbringing, the experience […]
Roanne Dods is currently Deputy Director of the Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Producer, International Futures Forum, and Co-Founder of Mission Models Money. Dods works with a number of organisations in facilitation, mentoring and research, including Cove Park, Performing Arts Labs, Fuel Theatre, and IC: Innovative Craft. She was Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation from 1998-2009. […]
Jan Verwoert is a writer, critic and curator. Amongst his many publications on contemporary art is an important book on Bas Jan Ader for the MIT/Afterall One Work series, a Phaidon monograph on Wolfgang Tillmans, and a key essay on conceptual art in Romantic Conceptualism. Verwoert is a contributing editor to Frieze magazine and also […]
Jo Shapcott was born on the 24th March 1953, in London, and is a poet, editor and lecturer. Shapcott has won the National Poetry Competition twice, in 1985 and 1991. Her Book: Poems 1988-1998 (2000; reprinted 2006) consists of poetry from her three earlier collections: Electroplating the Baby (1988), which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize […]
Xiaolu Guo was born in 1973 in a China and comes from a family of sea lovers. Her grandfather was a fisherman, her father was sent to a labour camp in 60s because he wanted to paint the sea instead of being a farmer. At 19 she left her hometown and studied at Beijing Film […]
Andrew Philip was born in Aberdeen in 1975 and grew up near Falkirk and studied linguistics at Edinburgh University. The Ambulance Box, (Salt 2009) included several poems that relate to his son’s death shortly after birth. He is interested in Scots and Gaelic as well as English.
Ros Barber is the author of two volumes of poetry with Anvil, the most recent of which was a Poetry Society Recommendation. Her novel-in-verse The Marlowe Papers, a fictional autobiography of Christopher Marlowe, will be published by Sceptre in 2012.
Liz Berry received an Eric Gregory Award in 2009. Her poems have appeared in magazines and on Radio 3. Her debut pamphlet, The Patron Saint of Schoolgirls, was published in 2010. She is an Emerging Poet in Residence at Kingston University and a 2011 Arvon/Jerwood mentee
Michael Pedersen is a 26-year-old writer of Caledonian stock. He has released two successful chapbooks – Part-Truths (Koo Press) and The Basic Alegbra of Buttering Bread (Windfall Books) – and has a full-length collection forthcoming by Red Squirrel Press. Michael is widely published in magazines, e-zines, journals and anthologies; scrip-edits for a motion picture and is circus master/co-founder of […]
Clare Pollard’s fourth collection of poetry, Changeling, is is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her play The Weather premiered at the Royal Court Theatre and her documentary for radio, ‘My Male Muse’, was a Radio 4 Pick of the year.
Gerry Cambridge is a poet with interests in print design and typography, and a background in natural history photography. His publications include three volumes of poetry and one of prose-poems. Since 1994 he has edited the transatlantic poetry journal The Dark Horse.
Richard Baxstrom is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology with an affiliation with Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia (Stanford University Press 2008). With Todd Meyers, he is also the co-editor of anthropologies (Creative Capitalism […]
Hannah Rudman of Rudman Consulting, is Lead Consultant of Amb:IT:ion, a digital development programme for the arts and cultural sector in the UK. Hannah has overseen the strategic digital development of over 100 cultural sector organisations, across all art forms and operational models. She has also developed an online hands-on approach for organisations looking to […]
At the heart of Frances Priest’s practice is a long held interest in clay, it’s associated craft processes and the objects that emerge from using it to make things by hand. The resulting work can reach toward drawing, printmaking, installation, participation, collaboration, design and architectural additions or interventions. Beyond the studio she works on educational […]
Maria Fusco writes fiction and critical and theoretical texts. She edits publications and contributes to a broad range of international visual culture magazines, books and catalogues. The Mechanical Copula, her first collection of short stories, has recently been published, and she is the founder/editor of The Happy Hypocrite a semi-annual journal for and about experimental […]
Ken Cockburn is a poet, translator, editor and writing tutor, based in Edinburgh. Formerly Fieldworker and Assistant Director at the Scottish Poetry Library, in 2006 he was the first writer-in-residence at the John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland, and was awarded the Arts Foundation Fellowship for Literary Translation 2008. A Creative Scotland ‘Vital Spark’ Award […]
Sue Arnold is an author and award-winning journalist who has written regular columns for The Observer and The Guardian, and continues to contribute to different national newspapers. She was registered blind some years ago, as she suffers from a congenital eye problem, and she has written on this and also on many other issues. She […]
For the last 20 years Oliver has been making films for television and theatrical presentation, working for internationally renowned broadcasters including the BBC and for creators including New Guide to Opera, Unhold Productions and Stans Cafe. In his TV work he specialises in high-profile factual series often about the outdoors. He was the lead director […]
Willie Miller is Principal of WMUD an urban design company, which he set up in 1996. He has many years experience in planning and regeneration working in the public sector where he was Assistant Director of Planning for Monklands District Council. He was a lecturer and researcher at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, specialising […]
Rolf Roscher is a director of ERZ limited, a dynamic design practice based in Glasgow’s Merchant City that specialises in landscape design, urbanism, master-planning and strategy. Roscher has extensive experience in landscape and urban design projects across a range of scales. He has primarily worked in private practice in the UK over the past 20 years, […]
Nigel Dower is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland where he taught for most of the period 1967-2004 and he is a visiting professor at institutions in America and Iceland. He was President of the International Development Ethics Association from 2002 to 2006 and he now acts as an academic […]
Piers Blaikie is Emeritus Professor at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia. He has had forty years of teaching and researching in India, Nepal and central Africa, mainly on environmental issues such as forestry, participation in local management and national parks. He was born and has lived in Scotland for 25 years […]
Robin Webster is an architect and a partner in the Glasgow firm of cameronwebsterarchitects. The firm have carried out a number of coastal developments in Scotland and elsewhere, and are currently engaged in the development of Cove Park itself, having carried out a feasibility study for the site a couple of years ago. Webster was […]
Neil Sutherland is an architect with a background in mechanical and production engineering. He is the owner and managing director of MAKAR Ltd an integrated design, manufacture and delivery organisation concerned with all aspects of the supply of rural housing and other buildings across Scotland. MAKAR Planning; a distinct element of the company undertakes master-planning […]
Linda Brothwell studied Metalwork and Jewellery at Sheffield Hallam University and went on to receive an MA in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2009. Brothwell is fascinated by the history of objects and how they have been and are interacted with. The use and knowledge of tools […]
Double Flower is an outstanding new body of work by the Glasgow-based visual artist Louise Hopkins. Commissioned by Cove Park, the prints, paintings, and performance were developed through a series of site visits and research residencies which allowed Louise to work in Cove Park’s studios and directly in the landscape overlooking Loch Long. Double Flower […]