Aisha Farr is an artist and writer who works in adult education and community outreach in London. Some of her writing has appeared in Zarf, Project Self Detective, Try To Be Better, The People’s House and she was shortlisted for The Prototype Prize 2024. She also makes weavings and paintings. Aisha is currently working on […]
Claire Tindale is a visual artist working primarily with sculpture and installation. She uses the miniature, and variations in scale, as a conceptual framework, to explore physical and psychological spaces, responding to environments and those who occupy them. A hospital, empty office building and library, are some of the spaces that Claire has been commissioned […]
Lora Eli Smith is a writer from Appalachian Kentucky. Lora’s family has been in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky for seven generations and she comes from a background of social justice organizing and community building that informs her writing. Smith is currently working on a series of essays on climate disaster and radical hope in […]
Katie Fraser is a Scottish playwright. She collaborated with Framework Theatre to produce Play Pretend (Traverse, October 2023). She has worked with Strange Town to write plays for their youth theatre, Dungeons and Flagons (2022) and I Was Here (2023) as well as their Young Company, You Don’t Know This Yet (2024, Scottish Storytelling Centre). […]
Lucy Holland is an author working across the fields of history, mythology and fantasy. Her current interest lies in re-imagining folktales and Celtic myth, with a view to re-situating the stories of queer people, and uncovering the complex regional histories of early medieval Britain. Her first historical fantasy novel, Sistersong, a reimagining of the folk […]
Chloe Austin (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist working with text, performance and installation. She is currently a PhD Researcher at Belfast School of Art, Ulster University. Chloe completed her MFA at BSOA in 2020, after receiving her BA in Fine Art and Design at Crawford College in Cork in 2017. Her current practice takes performative […]
Rebecca Kathryn Sharp is a British writer currently based in Cumbria but soon emigrating to Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. She recently graduated with a master’s in creative writing from Queen’s University Belfast. Her work is mostly creative nonfiction and lighter fiction influenced by her own experiences with themes of queerness, journey, and belonging. BBC […]
Tracy Fahey is the Irish author of six books and the 2024 winner of The Paul Cave Prize For Literature. She has been a British Fantasy Award finalist in 2017, 2022, and 2024. Fahey has been shortlisted for the London Independent Story Prize (2024) and the Leicester Short Story Prize (2021). She was granted a […]
Jackie Taylor is a Cornwall-based writer of short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and hybrid forms. She is interested in our contested rural edgelands, ageing and care, and approaches to writing climate crisis. Her work has appeared in Mslexia, Inkfish, Spelt, and other journals and anthologies. Her collection of interlinked short stories, Strange Waters, was published […]
Hannah Lavery is a poet and playwright from Edinburgh. Her debut poetry collection Blood Salt Spring (Polygon) was nominated for a Saltire Prize in 2022, her second collection Unwritten Woman was published by Polygon in August 2024. Hannah is the former Makar (poet laureate) for the City of Edinburgh, co-host of feminist arts podcast QuineCast […]
Kaljeven Singh Lally is a writer and director based in Glasgow. As a writer, he focuses on stories specific to his voice and lived experiences as a Sikh person raised in Scotland; combined with his love of cinema. As a writer he has a feature film, Five Thieves, in early development with Screen Scotland/Short Circuit. […]
Robert Rae is a theatre and film director and writer. He chooses to develop work through socially engaged practice that aligns with his own political and activist commitments. His expertise has taken him all over the world sharing and developing his methodology. His career spans over 30 years, beginning as Producer for 7:84 England and […]
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 and visual art with and for people that may not traditionally engage in the arts due to social, physical and/or financial barriers. She participated in Cove Park’s Creative Residencies for […]
Tina West is a theatre maker, writer and yogi based in Fife. Her practice includes vocal and sound production, ethnography and visual poetry. Current projects explore and investigate how absence informs presence where glimpses of past and present cultures, identities, and natural phenomena—embedded in sea scraps washed up on shorelines—can be woven together to reveal […]
Leilani Taneus-Miller is a Haitian-American writer based in Edinburgh. An Alexander Dixon Scholar at University of Glasgow’s creative writing programme, she writes in a variety of genres, integrating her academic and professional experience to create literature that elevates underrepresented communities. Her work has appeared in public campaigns, bookshops and anthologies. She is drawn to research […]
Tricky Hat Productions is a company that makes multi-art form theatre with and about people who live on the margins of our society. They work with people to find a creative and credible voice through participation in high quality, collaborative, cross-arts events alongside high calibre artists. They work in collaboration with agencies, artists and areas […]
Elizabeth Kwant’s practice is research based, working across film, performance, installation and printmaking, often making work in collaboration with artists and communities. Her work gives voice to socio-political issues facing contemporary society which have historical roots, seeking to unearth hidden histories, remembering and giving voice through performance for film. Ongoing research interests include: legacies of […]
Tim Murray-Browne is a computational artist, creative coder and AI engineer. His work connects AI, dance and algorithmically generated image and sound to explore new forms of human-machine relations that foster human wildness, autonomy and embodied thinking. It includes conversing with AI through dance, interactive audio-visual sculptures and an ensemble of new musical instruments that […]
Blise Orr is a spatial practitioner with a background in interior design. She graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2019 and moved to Rotterdam in 2021. In 2023 she completed the master interior architecture at the Piet Zwart Institute. She is a multidisciplinary practitioner with a focus on digital culture & ethics of […]
Jennifer Porteous is an interdisciplinary theatre maker. She works with landscape, documentary and archival materials to create intimate stories grounded in people and place. Jennifer’s work has a particular interest in social history, folk traditions and the forgotten stories from marginalised voices. Her previous work includes The Secret Agent, The Alpha Project, The Turing Project, […]
Emma Musty is a writer who grew up in the wild beauty of Dumfries and Galloway but these days finds herself most often in the city of Athens, Greece. It was while on a residency at Cove Park that she first heard from Lauren Parsons of Legend Press who would go on to become her […]
Lisette Auton is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, predominantly making work as a writer, performer and film and theatre maker. Her focus is on process, creative access and place: creating stories that reflect her northern, disabled and neurodivergent experiences. She is a children’s author published by Puffin: The Secret Of Haven Point (2022); The Stickleback Catchers […]
Dr. Lisa Moffitt is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of Graduate Programs at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada, and design editor of Technology|Architecture + Design journal. From 2010-2020, she was Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, where she also completed her PhD Architecture by Design. Her research uses physical models, prototypes, and […]
James Ross is a pianist and composer who pushes the boundaries of Scottish traditional music. James released his debut album on the Greentrax label, a mix of his piano arrangements of traditional and original material. Chasing the Sun, Ross’s second recording, is a seven-movement suite, evoking a day’s and a year’s westward journey along Scotland’s north […]
Janine Mitchell is a final year Doctoral Researcher. She has a Master of Research in Humanities from the University of Stirling. Her practice-led doctoral research project is focused on Central and Southern Africa and the creation of biographical narratives. She received the Scottish Universities Research Collection Associate Scheme Award for the development of the Mackay […]
Elizabeth Gold is the author of the memoir, Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity, published by Tarcher/Penguin USA. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Field, Willow Springs, Post Road, Meridian, Guernica and other journals. A native New Yorker, she now lives in Bristol, U.K. She will be working on a novel while […]
Natalie Nicolaïdes is a freelance curator with a compelling portfolio of projects that intersect art, activism, and critical discourse. Holding a BA(Hons) in History of Art, Design, and Film, and an MLitt in Curatorial Practice, Nicolaïdes brings a robust academic foundation to her curatorial endeavors. Nicolaïdes has curated notable exhibitions, including ‘Hosting Stillness’ with disabled […]
Luke Pell is a maker, living in Scotland, tending to space. For possibility, for re-remembering, for careful conversation, imagination & emergence. Often a companion in practice to other dance artists and arts organisations – as dramaturg, facilitator, writer, researcher – they collaborate in projects and processes that attend to alterity, with hope of effecting embodied […]
Rachel McBrinn’s practice encompasses film, sculpture and writing. Her work is concerned with how spaces are designed, experienced, and how we think about them. Her filmmaking practice is rooted in conversation and relationship building, and in much of her work she looks to make visible the mechanisms of filmmaking, making her own presence felt in […]
Lois Maher is a multi disciplinary artist, who focuses on responding to natural forms to create abstract narratives with a particular interest in land formations, rocks and found objects. Photography and writing is also part of her practice since graduating from Falmouth University. She now hopes to combine her passion for varied mediums through an […]
Adam Vaughn (AV) is an Edinburgh-based writer, screenwriter, and teacher from Connecticut. They completed their Creative Writing MSc in 2021, serving as the Head Prose Editor for the From Arthur’s Seat anthology. They have placed in numerous screenwriting contests, notably as a short-listed finalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition in 2020. AV is currently undertaking a Creative […]
Meghan Flaherty is the author of Tango Lessons (2018, Mariner). She writes lyrical and hybrid nonfiction and fiction. Her essays and reviews have appeared in VQR, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Iowa Review, Psychology Today, Parents, and online at the New York Times, The Paris Review, Slate, The New Inquiry, and elsewhere. Her essay “Ode to Gray” was named notable in 2019’s Best American Essays, […]
Rodge Glass is the author of eight books published since 2005: three novels (No Fireworks, Hope for Newborns & Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs), one graphic novel (Dougie’s War, with Dave Turbitt), one collection of short stories (Stories for the EasyJet Generation), two biographies (Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography & Michel Faber: The […]
Sarah Robinson is an Irish born, Edinburgh-based visual artist. Her multimedia work encapsulates an intensely personal journey of self exploration. A major catalyst for her recent work has been undertaking full time study and training as an arts psychotherapist. Employing a psychodynamic approach, themes include embracing the process of transition and transformation, delving into both […]
Katie Molyneaux Brooks is an artist and potter based in Dunbar, East Lothian. Having grown up on Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland she has a strong connection to the sea. Katie employs a mixed media approach, blending paint and dynamic mark-making techniques to create layered, evocative pieces that reflect Scotland’s scenery. Her work often showcases […]
Elle Nash is the author of the novels Deliver Me (Unnamed Press, 2023 and Verve Books, 2024), Gag Reflex (Clash Books, 2022), and Animals Eat Each Other (Dzanc Books, 2018 and 404 Ink, 2019), which was featured in the 2018 June Reading Room of O – The Oprah Magazine and hailed by Publishers Weekly as a ‘complex, impressive exploration of […]
Quincy Grant is a freelance composer and musician based in Adelaide/Tandanya, South Australia. He has written and performed music for the theatre, working with companies such as Slingsby, Flying Penquin, Circa, Brink Productions, Queensland Theatre, and State Theatre Company South Australia, and has toured extensively to the USA, UK, Japan and Ireland. He writes for […]
Clara Gillam Grant is an emerging cellist and singer-songwriter from Adelaide/Tandanya, Australia. Clara is interested in intergeneric works, and developing a fluid understanding of classical, folk and contemporary practices. Clara has played cello with the Adelaide and Australian Youth Orchestras, local Australian pop, folk, and improvisation projects, Womad Festival, and in theatre shows in Australia […]
Adam Vaughn (AV) is an Edinburgh-based writer, screenwriter, and teacher from Connecticut. They completed their Creative Writing MSc in 2021, serving as the Head Prose Editor for the From Arthur’s Seat anthology. They have placed in numerous screenwriting contests, notably as a short-listed finalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition in 2020. AV is currently undertaking […]
Jo is unfolding and developing as a photographer, and videographer. As a psychotherapist, Jo has supported many people to navigate the challenges of life through the therapeutic use of visual imagery. She recently found her own delight in creating images, especially monochrome photography, and storytelling through street photography and film. This residency will strip away […]
Carl Gent is an artist and writer from Bexhill-on-sea. They have exhibited their sculptures, songs, vehicles and printouts at Deptford X, Café Oto, Badischer Kunstverein, Istituto Svizzero, Flatland Projects, the De La Warr Pavilion, ICA, Somerset House, Goldsmiths CCA, Wysing Arts Centre, KELDER, Jupiter Woods and the Museum of English Rural Life. Felon Herb, an […]
Solasta Lucky McIntyre is an interdisciplinary creative, somatic educator and psychotherapist at Sir With Sol Therapy. His current artistic practice is focused on writing memoir and screenplay, researching mixed gaelic-celtic ancestry, and multi-media documentary of their life as an autistic polyamorous bi-gender lesbian recovering from cptsd. He writes the What’s Healing Me Lately weekly on […]
Matilda Bevan is a painter living in North East England. She studied at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford (1975-1978) and completed a Turps Correspondence Course in 2019. Her new paintings open to possibilities of expression in textures of paint on the surface, and aim to reveal tonal resonance through relationships of colour. […]
From growing up at the base of the Tetons in Jackson Hole, Wyoming to becoming a professional skier traveling the globe for big mountain expeditions and competitions, Hadley prefers to explore with skis on her feet. Since she debuted in the Freeride World Tour at age 25-‘old’ for most competitors, she’s gone on to star […]
Laima Vincė Sruoginis earned a PhD in Humanities from Vilnius University, an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of New Hampshire, a BA in English and German Literature from Rutgers University. She has been awarded two Fulbright grants, a National Endowment for the Arts in Literature, the PEN […]
Rema Grace and Dave Crossley are co-founders of Mycelium Thinking CIC, a not-for-profit arts company nurturing an emergent field the ‘mycelial arts and humanities’. Their arts-led inquiry works with the rich metaphors of fungi, incorporating community arts, cross-disciplinary entanglements, and land-based artivism. Their research is particularly inspired by underground mycorrhizal networks — a vast world-wide […]
Lesley Hart is a writer and actor with over 20 years experience working in theatre, film, TV and radio drama. In 2023 Lesley’s adaptation of Anna Karenina premiered at the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. Other recent projects include writing for Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Bristol Old Vic theatre, A Play, A Pie & A Pint, and […]
Katie Hodgetts FRSA, named the Conduit’s Young Climate Innovator (2023) and a Global Youth Awards Finalist for empowering young people (2018) has extensive experience in how to drive internal and external change. She has coordinated teams of youth and physically mobilised over 80,000 people for climate action during her roles as UK Youth Climate Coalition […]
Bartelijntje Buys is a field biologist with the University of Ghent, Belgium. Her research – involving bears, wolves, ground squirrels, birds, chimpanzees, cetaceans, and marine nematodes – explores how ecology, behavioural biology, policy and conservation interact with each other. She believes in the resilience of nature, of which humans play a part. She respects the […]
Peggy Riley is a playwright, author and lecturer in creative writing. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for prizes including Bridport and the Costa Short Story Award, and she has written for publications including Elle and The Wall Street Journal. Her first novel is Amity & Sorrow. She was a writer-on-attachment at Soho Theatre, and […]
Stark Holborn is a novelist and games writer from Bristol. She is the author of the Factus Sequence, the Triggernometry series, and the groundbreaking digital serial, Nunslinger. Stark’s fiction challenges established genre tropes and has been praised as “splendidly inclusive and innovative sci-fi” by Joanne Harris and “witty and atmospheric” by The Guardian. Stark’s fiction […]
Emily Munro (she/her) is a writer and filmmaker based in Glasgow whose work explores our ambivalent relationship/s to the past and future in the Anthropocene. Thematically, she is often concerned with energy use and extraction, the correspondence and dichotomies between plants, plastics, humans and the cosmos, nostalgic viewpoints on the Pyrocene, archival re-use, and speculative […]
Liam Bell is author of four novels, most recently The Sleepless (2023) and Man at Sea (2022). He is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling and is coming to Cove Park to work on a non-fiction project on rejection across the creative arts, as well as his next fiction project.
Eva Oosterlaken (she/her) is a Rotterdam-based social designer and researcher. In 2020 she founded creative studio Futurall, together with London-based designer and foresight practitioner Finn Strivens. Futurall develops creative approaches to involve more people in shaping the future: whether that’s through bringing diverse voices into decision-making, creating spaces for place-based imagination, or creating meaningful opportunities […]
Yambe Tam and Albert Barbu are a visual artist and creative technologist duo based between London and Paris. They create virtual worlds that speculate on the past, present, and future of consciousness by combining digital technology, gaming, and spiritual practice. Their interdisciplinary approach is inspired by the liminal space between scientific and spiritual, drawing upon […]
Alison Grant is a visual artist and community facilitator based in Edinburgh. Her work explores ways to create space for contemplation, introspection, connection and dialogue with our home and our place and relationships with the ecosystems that sustain us. Recent projects include 11,000 miles an Ocean facing research project and Drawing Down the Sun, a […]
Working with the Bolex, sisters Chloe and Emily Charlton use in-camera techniques such as single frame shooting and multiple exposures to explore geological vibrancy and liveliness. They are recipients of the Lateral Lab artists Correspondence collaboration of Autumn ‘22, a project that supported contemporary creative responses to the environment through an ecocentric spirit of exploration […]
Clara Fantoni is a British Italian non-binary artist from Brighton. Their practice fuses sculpture, installation and painting to create immersive experiences. Clara has exhibited in multiple group shows in London, Manchester, Brighton, Shanghai, Hastings, Barcelona, Tate Modern and the Saatchi Gallery in London. Clara was awarded the Cass Art Prize 2021 for innovative use of […]
Sumayya Usmani is a Pakistani author living in Glasgow. She is a Scottish Book Trust Next Chapter Awardee (2021) and the award winning author of two cookbooks and one memoir. Sumayya is currently finishing a MLitt in Creative Writing at University of Glasgow followed by the DFA Creative Writing starting October 2024. Sumayya also mentors […]
Genevieve Dawson is a songwriter-composer, performer, and community music worker originally from Edinburgh and now based in London. Her work weaves together elements of folk, jazz, choral and electronic textures. Her debut album was championed by BBC 6 Music and Jazz FM, and featured on Guy Garvey’s finest hour. Her most recent release what’s mine […]
Sekai Machache (she/they) is a Zimbabwean-Scottish visual artist, film-maker and curator based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self, in which photography plays a crucial role in supporting an exploration of the historical and cultural imaginary. Aspects of her photographic practice are formulated through digital studio-based compositions utilising […]
Laura Lightbody is a ceramic artist based in Glasgow producing bold and contemporary functional ceramic pieces. The items that Laura slip cast are simple, geometric forms with surface pattern that is derived from motifs and graphics from the everyday. Each piece is designed, produced and decorated by hand ensuring each form is individual. Alongside a […]
Rosie Newman is a multi-disciplinary artist based in the Highlands of Scotland, working from her studio in The Stables, Cromarty. A graduate of Camberwell School of Art (Sculpture) and UHI Shetland (Social Art Practice), she works across sculpture, photography, performance, painting, and audio to explore mythological themes and the interconnectedness between people and the sea. […]
Julie Kennedy is a writer and teacher, highly commended in the recent 2022 Ledbury Poetry Competition. During her residency at Cove park, she hopes to finishing the final edit of an e-book of her first novel. She received a Scottish Government funded Scottish Publication Award in 2022 for this e-book project.
Lydia Green is a Glasgow based theatre-maker. She writes, directs and produces new work. She is also a lecturer at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is currently directing Into the Woods for Perth Theatre and Noisemaker’s Snow Queen for The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Junior Performance Department. She has worked in South Korea with […]
Lana Pheutan is an actor, writer and director from the Isle of Skye. She is a native Gàidhlig speaker and works bilingually across theatre, film, television and radio. She wrote Glan Fhèin (with Hannah McKirdy) and Dad Sam Bith for BBC Alba, both nominated for a Celtic Media Awards (2024). She is the current recipient […]
Ingrid Glienke was born in Eckernförde, Germany in 1951. She studied English, Scandinavian Languages and Literature and Creative Writing in Kiel, Canberra and London. She works as an author and translator (English and Danish into German). Her volume of poetry Septemberroad appeared in 2013. Her poetry and short prose have also been published in magazines […]
Wolfgang Butt, born 1937 in Wuppertal, Germany, is a professor of Scandinavian Studies and lectured at the Universities of Kiel, Munich and Vienna until 2000. He is a short-time publisher of Scandinavian literature (1986-1994) and translator of Scandinavian literature into German (Enquist, Mankell, Stangerup, et al.). Additionally, he writes short fiction and poetry with publications […]
Bonnie Ogilvie (Amsterdam, 1994) is a visual artist who uses Tartan as a means of communication. For each new portrait, she starts with a basic structure and fills it with her visual language. Ogilvie translates her emotions, observations, and environment into unique compositions each time, employing new colours, printing techniques, and scanned objects as means […]
Amy Borezo is a US based visual artist from rural Massachusetts who uses the artist’s book form to investigate the production of space. She combines images, text, and book structure to create multi-layered readings of sites that explore the complexities of class, nature, gender, and settler colonialism. Amy is also a bookbinder who designs and […]
Anna McLuckie is a Scottish singer, songwriter and clàrsach player. Raised on classical and traditional music, Anna’s writing draws on her musical beginnings and also takes influence from her love of popular music and more experimental sounds. Her music sits in a world of contemporary folklore; her songs layered with interweaving harmonies, story led lyricism […]
Ayman Hlal was born in As-Suwayda, a city in Syria that is particularly famous for producing artists. A rising star in his homeland, war in Syria resulted in Ayman seeking refuge in Berlin. Trained in both Western and Middle Easten classical music, he started several projects in Germany, which have exposed him to further musical […]
Christian Mohr Levisen is a multi-instrumentalist who was born and raised in the rural area of Vendsyssel in northern Denmark. His main instrument is the rarely seen hurdy gurdy, a mechanical string instrument with roots in the Middle Ages that plays cello-like drones and melodies in the viola register. As the third ever in Scandinavia to […]
Helen Anahita Wilson is an Oram award-winning composer, sound artist, and performer who collaborates with trees, plants, people, and other living beings. As composer-in-residence at Chelsea Physic Garden in London, Helen’s creative relationship with plants has developed into a deep form of collaborative composition. Her unique interpretations of plant biodata and physiological activity readings, combined […]
While Kasiva Mutua learned drumming inspired by folktales told by her grandmother, she has developed her own knack for powerful beats. One of Kenya’s leading percussionists and drummers, her expressive playing can tell a story on its own, or keep a band perfectly in the pocket. Today, she’s an international touring percussionist, integrating African traditional […]
Nina Harries is a double-bassist, songwriter, and vocalist. Her debut self-titled solo album was released in 2019 with funding from the PRS Women Make Music fund, while her second record ‘Water’, funded by Arts Council England and recorded entirely by Nina onboard her narrowboat home, was released in February 2022. In addition to her solo […]
Ossi Raippalinna is a Finland-based percussionist, producer, researcher, educator, and drum-maker. As part of his recent master’s studies at Sibelus Academy, field trips to Senegal, Mali, Scotland, and Cuba have enriched his understanding of the interplay between rhythm and melody in percussion traditions – particularly within West African drum traditions. Ossi’s repertoire includes the drum […]
Shohret Nur is a rawap and dutar player, originally from Xinjiang and currently based in London. An award-winning performer, Shohret specialises in the Uyghur stringed instruments, rawap and dutar. Shohret’s great grandfather was a musician and dutar player from kasghar, Xinjiang, while his grandmother was a dutar player and a professional dancer. Continuing this rich musical lineage and supported by his grandmother […]
Aideen Doran (b. 1984 in Lurgan, Northern Ireland) is an artist living in Glasgow. Doran’s practice traverses moving image, sound, installation and writing. Through a process of intuitive and considered collaging, she combines material and thematic sources to create new narratives that revisit historical moments, analyse the contemporary world and look speculatively to the future. […]
This micro residency connects academics from across a number of research groups working across areas of human rights law, intergenerational social and environmental justice, Indigenous and traditional inland and coastal communities, human rights defenders, Indigenous labour and land rights, care-centred approaches, and multi-species justice, all with some focus on arts-based practice. A small group of […]
Sarah Kudirka is a visual artist fascinated by the shapes and edges of things. She paints on linen, instant film and found objects, and draws in pencil and ink. “You know when you find something in your pocket that you’d picked up then forgot? Familiar but unknown, a wee treasure, your fingers feel around its […]
Sumayya Usmani is a Pakistani author living in Glasgow. She is a Scottish Book Trust Next Chapter Awardee (2021) and the award winning author of two cookbooks and one memoir. Sumayya is currently finishing a MLitt in Creative Writing at University of Glasgow followed by the DFA Creative Writing starting October 2024. Sumayya also mentors […]
As an emerging book artist, Paula Currie draws on decades of experience in various creative mediums, including mail art, digital media, and cooking. Her artist books and mail art projects often feature wit, humor, and a touch of sarcasm. She focuses on creating books that offer a rich sensory and tactile experience, inviting engagement and […]
Tara Hipwood is a Chartered Architect and an Assistant Professor in Sustainable and Environmental Design in the Department of Architecture at Northumbria University. Tara’s research interests focus around the intersections between occupant wellbeing, the built environment, and the natural environment – and perhaps most importantly where the distinction between these elements breaks down. Tara’s Ph.D. […]
Patricia Currie Wren is a multidisciplinary artist of Scottish-descent working in San Francisco, California. Urban scavenger and explorer, Patricia notices the imprints of people and nature on the urban environment and celebrates those impressions through collage, post/mail art, watercolor and ink, printing (collagraphy, letterpress, and monotype), book arts, and pottery. Elements of decay, grit, and […]
Dirck Backer and Maria Myrgård are theater makers and performing artists from Denmark. They are working as both directors and actors. In about 40 years they have been producing theatre in their own touring theatre Teater Patrasket, mainly with theatre for children and their adults. They want to create theater from the heart, to touch […]
Out-of-print books, cult novels and films are often the catalyst for Caroline Jupp’s DIY publishing projects. Documentary processes – conversation, observation, recording and collecting – are used to form publications. These texts are brought together to create new archives or libraries, such as her major participatory project, Library of Unwritten Books, inspired by Beat writer, […]
Yvonne Hardman is the Head of Collections & Programmes at Leeds Museums & Galleries, a large local authority-run museum service, which runs eight venues across the city and cares for 1.3 million objects. Part of Yvonne’s role is to manage the organisation’s Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation programme alongside leading a team of subject-specialist […]
Jo Harper (she/her) is a UK based playwright and screenwriter, also a theatre maker, script reader and dramaturg. Her focus is female driven stories featuring compelling protagonists 40+. She’s just finished shooting an anthology feature film with director Athena Mandis in London and she’s currently developing a feature film about a surprise 50th birthday party […]
Miranda Vissers is an environmental artist. She has a background of a MSc in environmental health studies and an education in monumental arts. Her work is created out of love for nature and also a concern about the environment. She works with mixed media, all her materials are either found in nature, donated or recycled. […]
Articulate was established in 2017 to make sure children with care experience can have a positive childhood. Their purpose is to improve the lives of the young people by scaffolding their innate curiosity and creativity. They provide direct support through the arts for well-being, to build skills and give a voice and platform to those […]
Sandrine Colard is Assistant Professor of Art History at Rutgers-Newark University in the United States, and curator-at-large at the Kanal-Pompidou Museum in Brussels. She holds a doctorate from Columbia University (2016), and she is a historian of African, modern and contemporary arts, as well as a historian of photography. Her research has been published internationally […]
Lesley is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Northumbria University, Newcastle. She is fascinated by the mystery of ‘what has gone before’ and driven to uncover and map the hidden histories and narratives of the sites she encounters. This has led her to develop a creative practice in exploring fragments of context, people, place, and […]
Niamh Gordon (she/her) is a writer and interdisciplinary researcher. She has an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia, and is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing and Narrative Studies at the University of Glasgow, where she has taught courses on poetry and poetics, experimental writing, and writing the body. […]
Billie Willett is a queer, autistic playwright, dramaturg, and occasional performer fascinated with horror. Currently based in Stockholm, they started their writing journey in Edinburgh. In 2017, she graduated from Queen Margaret University and immediately went on to co-found the horror company Nevermore Theatre. With them, she wrote the plays EH16: Pyre and Suppose There […]
Anna Rhodes is a lecturer in landscape architecture at Edinburgh College of Art, a landscape architect and artist. Through her practice-based research and teaching, Anna promotes the importance of reading a place through immersive fieldwork. Drawing is key to her field research and is a tool to appreciate environmental forces as well as the complex […]
James Ross is a pianist and composer who pushes the boundaries of Scottish traditional music. James released his debut album on the Greentrax label, a mix of his piano arrangements of traditional and original material. Chasing the Sun, Ross’s second recording, is a seven-movement suite, evoking a day’s and a year’s westward journey along Scotland’s […]
Janine Mitchell is a final year Doctoral Researcher. She has a Master of Research in Humanities from the University of Stirling. Her practice-led doctoral research project is focused on Central and Southern Africa and the creation of biographical narratives. She received the Scottish Universities Research Collection Associate Scheme Award for the development of the Mackay […]
Virginia Grose is the Head of Fashion at the University of Westminster – School of Arts with a background in fashion and product development in the UK fashion industry. Having worked many years with Courtaulds Testiles on many fashion product times, Virginia developed an interest in cashmere knitwear. She has worked closely with textile and […]
Elisabeth den Boer is a visual artist. She was born and raised in the Netherlands and after a long period spent in the Austrian alps, now lives in West Sussex. She graduated with an MA from the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts (2021), specialising in traditional methods and materials. She has previously trained as a […]
Adam Vaughn (AV) is an Edinburgh-based writer, screenwriter, and teacher from Connecticut. They completed their Creative Writing MSc in 2021, serving as the Head Prose Editor for the From Arthur’s Seat anthology. They have placed in numerous screenwriting contests, notably as a short-listed finalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition in 2020. AV is currently undertaking […]
Tuna Erdem is a queer artist and writer from Turkey, based in London. She is a founding member of Istanbul Queer Art Collective, where she has been performing since 2012. Her artistic work takes many forms ranging from live art to sound and video art but her practice is always related to text and lived […]
Anna Bambridge is a writer based in Glasgow. Her work is about seeing and being seen. She has studied physics and vision and draws from these learnings to explore how our perceptions are impacted by paradigm choice. During her time at Cove Park she will be editing her book about her experiences living with a […]
Susan Sanders-Rosenberg is a visual artist and art facilitator based in Dallas, Texas. A graduate of Columbia University, with a post-baccalaureate certificate in painting from The Art Institute of Chicago, she holds an MFA in painting from Meadows School of Art. Working with ideas of transformation and possibility, Susan has an ongoing interest in obliquely […]
Dr Alessia Zinnari is a Lecturer in Italian at the University of Glasgow. Her research is grounded in comparative and feminist methodologies, and explores the relationship between trauma, representation, and the construction of identity. In her recent practice, she has moved from focusing solely on the written word to exploring how both text and image […]
Tara Hipwood is a Chartered Architect and an Assistant Professor in Sustainable and Environmental Design in the Department of Architecture at Northumbria University. Tara’s research interests focus around the intersections between occupant wellbeing, the built environment, and the natural environment – and perhaps most importantly where the distinction between these elements breaks down. Tara’s Ph.D. […]
Heather Parry is a Glasgow-based author and editor. She is the editorial director of Extra Teeth magazine and co-created the Illustrated Freelancer’s Guide with artist Maria Stoian. She has published both fiction and nonfiction, and her next novel, Carrion Crow, will be released in Feb 2025.
Gwen van den Bout (1992, Rotterdam) makes art installations, curates exhibitions and creates art publications. She was the winner of an open call of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam and as a result of this, her contemporary installation artwork ‘Being Unpolished’ was exhibited at the museum in 2015. In 2019 Gwen won the ‘Art for […]
Tuija Hansen is a textile artist and educator with Nordic-Canadian roots residing in Robinson-Superior Treaty territory, on the north shore of Lake Superior. Hansen pursued Fibre and Textile Design at Kootenay School of Arts (Nelson, BC) then majored in Social Justice Studies, and Studio Art at Lakehead University (Thunder Bay, ON). She is from Lappe, […]
Victoria Evans is a Scotland-based contemporary artist, researcher and teacher, working across a variety of media including moving image, sound, sculpture and creative writing. She graduated with a master’s degree from Glasgow School of Art in 2015 and is currently conducting part-time practice-based PhD research at Edinburgh College of Art, funded by the Scottish Graduate […]
“Irrepressible, Glasgow-based, Irish theatre minx” Meghan Tyler is an award-winning playwright and actor from Newry. Their play CROCODILE FEVER stormed the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the Traverse Theatre in 2019, and recently won the prestigious Stewart Parker Award. They have won the Channel 4 Playwrights Bursary, the New Playwrights Award with Playwrights’ Studio Scotland, and […]
Louise Hopkins lives and works in Glasgow. Recent one person exhibitions include: Double Flower, Cove Park, Argyll, UK (2023). Flying Fox, CAMPLE LINE, rural Dumfriesshire, UK (2018). Dance Number – temporary Artist Wall Commission for the Mackintosh Building exterior, Glasgow School of Art, UK (2017). Black Sea, White Sea, part of GENERATION: 25 years of […]
Born in Scotland, Malcolm trained at Central School of Ballet before joining Ballet Basel as an apprentice. From there, Malcolm spent seven successful years with the Ballett Staatstheater Nürnberg, where he performed works from world renowned choreographers such as Pite, Naharin, Kylian, Ek. As a choreographer he has created 2 full-length productions for the Tafelhalle. […]
Lorna Macintyre studied for both a BA (1999) and MFA (2007) at The Glasgow School of Art where she now also works as a visiting lecturer in Fine Art Photography. Macintyre’s exhibitions include: Exercises in Style, Glasgow International, 2021, Pieces of You Are Here, Dundee Contemporary Arts (2018/19), Spolia, Cample Line, Dumfriesshire (2017); Much Marcle, […]
Annie Goulden is a mixed media artist and educator. She paints semi-abstract landscapes and seascapes. Her work reflects a meditative practice of presence and noticing. Her paintings are a response to what she sees and experiences in the natural world, a fusion of observation and experience. She believes that the exterior landscape interacts with our […]
We are delighted to host Playwrights’ Studio Scotland New Playwrights Award winners at Cove Park, a partnership established several years ago and bringing wonderful writing talent to Cove Park from across Scotland. Taking part in May 2024 is Rachel Main, a screenwriter and playwright from Glenrothes, Scotland. She is a graduate of MFA Dramatic Writing […]
Laura Lightbody is a ceramic artist based in Glasgow producing bold and contemporary functional ceramic pieces. The items that Laura slip cast are simple, geometric forms with surface pattern that is derived from motifs and graphics from the everyday. Each piece is designed, produced and decorated by hand ensuring each form is individual. Alongside a […]
Jane Milosch is an internationally recognized curator and expert in 20th-century and contemporary art, craft, and design. After graduate art history studies in Munich on a Fulbright Fellowship and studio ceramics in Michigan, Jane began her museum career in 1990 at the Detroit Institute of the Arts, later moving to the Davenport Museum of Art and […]
Jimbo Blachly lives in New York City. His installations, performances, drawings and paintings have been exhibited at the Drawing Center, Franklin Furnace, The New Museum, P.S.1 MOMA, The SculptureCenter, Planthouse Gallery in N.Y.C.; and Furnace-art on Paper, Falls Village Connecticut. No. 81, a limited-edition book of Blachly drawings was published in 2021. Between 2004 and […]
Brittany Ferguson is a watercolour artist living in Dunoon with her young family. Her paintings are inspired by the night sky and scenery of Argyll. She’ll be using her time at Cove Park to develop new work while having the freedom of time and space.
Maria Fraaije (1992) is an illustrator/visual artist living in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 2024, she is exploring how drawing can offer comfort in times of changing internal and external landscapes, as funded by the Dutch Creative Industries Talent Development grant. She has originally been trained as a sustainability analyst, and has worked as a researcher […]
Bill Coon was the recipient of the 2009 National Jazz Awards, Guitarist of the Year. He leads several of his own groups including the BC Double Quartet whose recording, Departure with Brad Turner on trumpet and violinist Cameron Wilson was nominated for a 2019 Western Canadian Music Award. He is featured on three Western Canadian […]
Combining moving image, writing, installation and performance Felix Melia’s work addresses notions of public and private space, intimacy and agency. It is an exploration of the ways we perceive, move through and dwell in our environments. Melia is particularly interested in the physical gestures and expressions we make in order to become visible and develop […]
Jj Fadaka is a writer, facilitator and radical based in Edinburgh. Her writing explores the possibility abolition, feminism, and love give us to create change. Jj uses poetry to speak to the political urgencies we face whilst centering joy-making in building struggles against these. Jj’s workshops draw on black feminist radical traditions to create space […]
Khadea Santi, coming from a long lineage of West African voodoo practices, is an artist and curator, exploring histories and storytelling. Using critical autoethnography as a methodology working across various concerns around the imaginative potential of clay & ceramics. Public readings include beetle; soft (2023) at Dissenter for Space Studies, and salt wounds (2022) at […]
Neha Apsara is a moving-image, performance and text artist, based between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Her work explores ritual, confessions, care, love and the importance of spirituality outwith the binaries of organised religion. This narrates the roles they have as part of the committee for artist run initiative, Rhubaba, Edinburgh and as curatorial assistant at the […]
Looking for a Likeness Within an Unlikeness, a week-long residency lead by Fraser Taylor and Lisa Woolley is returning to Cove Park for the second time, 22 – 29 April 2024. The residency explores the expansive vocabulary of drawing and its potential to trigger and develop the making of a new body of research. Group […]
From Arthur’s Seat (FAS) is heading outside of Edinburgh for the first time in its seven years of existence. At Cove Park, thirteen students from the anthology will be given time and space to write outside of the busy city of Edinburgh, culminating in a reading from FAS. FAS is a yearly showcase collection of poetry […]
James Ross is a pianist and composer who pushes the boundaries of Scottish traditional music. James released his debut album on the Greentrax label, a mix of his piano arrangements of traditional and original material. Chasing the Sun, Ross’s second recording, is a seven-movement suite, evoking a day’s and a year’s westward journey along Scotland’s […]
Maraid Mcewan is a London based artist, creative researcher and designer exploring social impact and care through collaboration. She expresses the importance of making with people, specifically under-represented groups and is driven by a desire to utilise creativity as a tool to reimagine and reconceptualise our emotions. Her work is diverse in its outputs, ranging […]
IFW (he/him) is a sound artist, researcher and teacher who makes audio recordings to engage with the conceptual pairing ‘personal’ and ‘listening’. He releases work under the name ‘Klaysstarr Nets’ (Pan y Rosas, Entr’acte), with related writing appearing in various journals and outlets (Journal of Sonic Studies, Organised Sound), and commissioned performances and presentations at […]
Alex Smoke is a musician and composer; operating in various fields of sound including electronic production, sound installation and instrumental composition. His main interest is in combining traditional forms of composition and musicianship with the more experimental approaches allowed by modern technology. Initially trained in classical cello, drums and singing, then progressing to electronic production under […]
SHHE is the alias of Scottish-Portuguese artist, musician and producer Su Shaw. Influenced by environment and ecology, her artistic practice explores themes of identity and connection at the intersection between sound, space and liminal states. SHHE’s eponymous debut album was released by One Little Independent Records and was shortlisted for Scottish Album of the Year 2020. […]
An architect by training, Laura Mannelli is a Luxembourg XR artist and director who divides her life between Paris, Luxembourg and her networks. She likes to explore the digital universe by developing a practice at the crossroads of visual arts, virtual realities, video games and architecture. Co-founder of the Atopic Festival, one of the first European […]
Sonia Killmann is an international composer and multi-media artist from Belgium. As a saxophone player, electronic musician, and audiovisual artist, she has performed across the UK and Europe. Her works are largely inspired by composers such as Pauline Oliveros, Colin Stetson and Alvin Lucier. Sonia’s work ranges from creating ambient electronic music to classical music using acoustic instruments or […]
Georgina Penstkart is a visual artist based in Glasgow who uses analogue video techniques to combine light and colour withsound in organic and evolving live performance. Georgina has collaborated on music videos with Umberto, Elisabeth Elektra, Timothy J Fairplay, Nightwave and Hausfrau and provided visual pieces for showcase events organised by Glasgow School of Art […]
Glasgow-based multiinstrumentalist Harry Górski-Brown studied violin performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He often includes elements of electroacoustic and traditional music in his work. Recent ventures include; I.Been a badboy:- cut me loose_ – a short audiovisual film made after winning the Craig Armstrong Prize for RCS composer graduates and FISHER PRICE PIPES – a mix […]
Alba G. Corral is a visual artist and creative coder based in Barcelona. With a background in computer engineering, she has been creating generative art using software and coding for the past decade. Her practice spans live performance, video, digital media and installation, exploring abstract narratives and expressing sensitivity and taste for colour. By combining […]
Andrey Chugunov is a conceptual artist working at the turn of digital and analogue electronic media. He combines sound art, light installation, generative graphics, technological sculpture, media performances, and readymade in his practice. He researches topics of mortality, temporality, autonomy, and memory decay in his artworks from the perspective of meditative media. Andrey received the […]
Titus Davies makes art using sited installations, photography and collage. Her site specific works explore and animate the politics / histories of the chosen place. She is interested in using ruptures and matter out of place to play with the interface between the built environment, the domestic, and the natural world. Davies completed a Fine […]
SALT collective is a three headed collective and is currently establishing a land-sea relationship. Through various modes of exchange between the two spaces we realise a continuous body of artistic work. Between 2023-2026 we are operating around the globe with our satellite studio in the form of a sailboat. While one of us (Sandström) is […]
Heft is an independent solo artist from Yangon, Myanmar. He composes, designs sounds, produces and manages his unique brand of electronic music all from a bedroom studio. Most of all, he is known for his geeky sound design and the melodic pieces on the cinematic ambient beats. Beside technical skill sets, his music is a […]
Kseniia is a textile and costume designer, sound artist, performance artist, musician and hair designer. Born in Kyiv, between 2017 and 2019, Kseniia studied at the Igor Sikorskyi Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in the Department of Resource Conservation for Renewable Energy Sources. From 2020-2022, she was part of the Odessa community of resident artists, OSRZ-2, based […]
No Plexus is a genre-queer electronic duo comprising Bec Plexus and No Compliments (Allison Wright). Guided only by their creative intuitions, No Plexus are the ultimate misfits; appreciating many genres and communities whilst belonging to none. No Plexus creates and performs experimental electronic music that is conceptual, through-composed and genre-queer. They empower art-school misfits, unapologetically […]
Danielle Chavrimootoo is Director of Dorcas Inclusive Education Consultancy supporting organisations in advancing equality, diversity and inclusion. With over twenty years’ experience in a variety of roles both academic and professional services in Further and Higher Education. Danielle’s background is teaching Health and Social Care in Further Education. Danielle moved into higher education and taught […]
Emily Utter is a Canadian writer who lives in Aberdeen. Her short stories and creative non-fiction have been widely published in magazines and journals, including Gutter, Northwest Review, Geist, and the best of Canadian flash fiction anthology, This Will Only Take a Minute. Emily has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Aberdeen […]
Lesley McIntyre is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Northumbria University, Newcastle. She is fascinated by the mystery of ‘what has gone before’ and driven to uncover and map the hidden histories and narratives of the sites she encounters. This has led her to develop a creative practice in exploring fragments of context, people, place, […]
Sarah Trounce grew up in East Anglia and studied English at Birmingham University, before moving to London. She worked as a manager in the design industry for ten years and is now a freelance consultant and writer, collaborating with creative people all over the world. Sarah was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize […]
Shawn Snow is a visual artist, musician, and writer from Menands, New York. His recent work manifested as an occult exploration of his conscious and shadow selves, in a multimedia installation and musical performance titled The Dark Road, which contained figurative drawings, animations, sound art, a graphic narrative, and live musical improvisation, held at Western […]
The New Mothers’ Writing Circle is a radical and unique project which centres the experience of the mother and her transformation in motherhood. Set up at the start of 2020, each 8-week programme nurtures small cohorts of 10 – 15 mothers, drawing on diverse narratives of motherhood from Rachel Cusk to Toni Morrison to empower […]
Alison Woodhouse is a writer, tutor and mentor based in the Southwest, currently in her first year of a funded PhD in Creative Writing, exploring polyphony. Her novella, The House on the Corner, (AdHoc Fiction, 2020) and her short fiction collection, Family Frames, (V Press,2021) explore familial relationships. She has a particular interest in family […]
Kari Shemwell was born and raised in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She received her undergraduate degrees from Murray State University and an MFA degree from Sierra Nevada College with a concentration in fiction. She worked in the film industry for 8 years, and she is currently writing a novel about power dynamics in Hollywood. She is also […]
Maureen Wolloshin is an oboist, improviser and practice-led researcher. Her work explores the embodied connection between instrument and sounding. Henry Dagg has designed and made for her a new instrument–the gliss anglais, which extends the gestural scope of her work. Maureen’s practice is experimental and feminist. It is a ‘making with’; a collaborative and enriching […]
Hanna is a British-Japanese writer based in London. She has just completed the MA in Prose Fiction at UEA and her debut novel Who Wants to Live Forever will be published in Spring 2025 (Brazen Books / Hachette). In 2022, she won the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour, was longlisted for the Space […]
Kirsty Crawford lives in Glasgow. She writes fiction and non-fiction. Her writing has appeared in Porridge Magazine, the Glasgow Guardian and Aurelia Magazine among others. She has been awarded residencies from Joya Arte & Ecologíca and Cove Park and her work explores identity in relation to place, memory, and the body. While at Cove Park, she will continue working on her first novel.
Andy Monaghan is an artist, producer and record label owner based in Glasgow. As member of Frightened Rabbit he was instrumental in developing the sonic palette of the band across multiple critically acclaimed albums and stages worldwide. More recently, he’s been collaborating with artists such as Lizzie Reid, We Were Promised Jetpacks and Tanita Tikaram, […]
Izzy Thomson is a visual artist based in Inverness, working from her studio at Wasps, Inverness Creative Academy. She graduated from Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen in 2016, with a First Class BA (Hons) in Painting. Following her graduation, she was selected for a year-long Graduate Residency at Leith School of Art in Edinburgh. […]
Nkule Mabaso is an artist and curator who graduated with a Fine Arts degree from the University of Cape Town in 2011 and received a Masters in Curating from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in 2014. She is currently PhD Researcher, University of Gothenburg, HDK- Valand (Academy of Art and Design), Sweden.
Lucy Duncombe is a musician and artist from Leicester and now based in Glasgow. Recent projects include THE RAPTURE OF CELLULAR ACCRETION (2021) a music and text work tracing transient details of YouTube’s user experience; 3RD REMOVE FROM THE REAL in collaboration with soft tissue’s Feronia Wennborg. Originally developed as a radiophonic piece for Radiophrenia […]
Tricky Hat Productions is a company that makes multi-art form theatre with and about people who live on the margins of our society. They work with people to find a creative and credible voice through participation in high quality, collaborative, cross-arts events alongside high calibre artists. They work in collaboration with agencies, artists and areas […]
RCS Innovation Studio is a two-year pilot project which facilitates new opportunities for knowledge exchange at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Through a series of workshops, panels, online discussions, and interdisciplinary collaborations and seed funds, Innovation Studio supports creative experimentation, skills development and collaboration. The project hopes to generate new practices and pave the way for […]
Anna Olson is an interdisciplinary artist and recipient of the Cove Park Associate Maker/Designer Award 2023. Since graduating with an MFA in Fine Art and Humanities in 2021 Anna has been unpacking a pilgrimage she undertook as part of her studies. Deeply concerned by a personal and collective disconnect with the rest of nature, Anna […]
Ariane Jackson Marini is a visual artist based in Glasgow and a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art. Her paintings currently explore composition and perspective in medieval and devotional painting, alongside painting processes and concerns developed across the 20th century.
Freya uses self-portraiture to scrutinise her experience as a patient and the role it can play in aiding communication between the two. At Cove Park, Freya will be working on new large-scale drawings instigated by sketches made during the DYCP grant.
Amanda Wenger (she/her) is a Houston-based writer and performer with a background in critical care nursing. She has designed and facilitated writing workshops for health professionals as an artist in residence for the Medical Humanities program at Texas Children’s Hospital and is the recipient of an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant to finish a first young […]
Penelope Brook is a New Zealand-born, UK-based artist who graduated with an MA in textiles from the Royal College of Art in 2023. Her practice, grounded in walking, has evolved as a conversation across photography, print, spoken word and hand-stitch. Her hand-work seeks to evoke the stillness to be found through walking, to memorialize those […]
Ryan O’Connor received the Scottish Book Trust Next Chapter Award in 2018; later the same year he was Highly Commended in the Bridport Prize short story category. His debut novel, The Voids, was published by Scribe in 2022. Shortlisted for Scotland’s National Book Awards, it has received widespread critical acclaim. In the Guardian, Benjamin Myers […]
Pamela Carter lives in London. She is a writer for performance, director, and dramaturg, and has worked in theatre, dance, opera, film, the visual arts, and museum design since 2004. Her plays have been performed in Europe, the USA, Australia and Japan. Her most recent work includes: The Misfortune of the English, a play for […]
Jane Deasy is a composer and performer working across electroacoustic music, performance, and multimedia. Working with unique tuning systems and custom instrument designs, spatialization and staging of sound are interconnected in her work. In 2022 her multimedia performance and installation Opening Night premiered at Dublin Fringe winning the award for Best Design. Her new stage […]
Alexia Wdowski has an MA in Creative Writing and writes about outsiders, risk-takers, wilderness, and the surreal qualities of daily life. She is interested in the links between writing, creativity and wellbeing, and works as a manager in an indie bookshop in a small town by the sea. She writes articles, flash, and short stories […]
Scarlett Sangster is an author and short story writer from Somerset, UK. She’s written two fiction novels which have placed in a number of literary competitions, including the Adventures In Fiction Spotlight First Novel Award and the Page 100 Prize. Her latest novel, set in 1970s Dorset, explores the impact of childhood grief on developing […]
Joanne Stubbs lives and works in the Bristol area. She grew up in Staffordshire and studied biochemistry at Wadham College, Oxford. Her debut novel, The Fish, was published in 2022 by Fairlight Books. A piece of climate fiction, it tells the story of a world not unlike our own, but where environmental changes have caused […]
Lizzie Rose is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Oban and based in Ardfern in Argyll. Her work bears witness to what is slipping through our fingers, celebrating beauty and energy, whilst also engaging in stories that need to be told to enable change. Her installations combine literal storytelling and activism, with elements of inconvenience and […]
Jennifer Whitworth is a London-based independent designer specialising in visual communication. Originally from the New Forest, Jennifer has an interest in natural landscapes and processes, and where people’s histories interact and merge with the environment around them. Her practice often investigates social movements and the ways in which graphic and typographic material help to form […]
Two Destination Language makes bold, ambitious, award-winning work about identity and community. Rooted in dialogue and collaboration, we believe in the transformative power of art to change how we see ourselves and the society we share. Our work brings people together in new, unexpected ways, creating shared spaces for reflection and mutual understanding. Led by […]
Zita Abila is a British-Nigerian writer and artist, raised in the Netherlands and across England, from Manchester to Lincolnshire. She has a Masters in Literature and Culture from the University of Birmingham, where she cultivated her interest in forgotten cities and ancient lore. This year, she graduated from the HarperCollins Author Academy (Spring 2023), and […]
Elmira Elvazova is a poet living in Edinburgh, Scotland. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts MFA Program for Poets & Writers. Her writing has appeared in Bennington Review, Paperbark Literary Magazine, Big Lucks, Big Big Wednesday, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry chapbook, I Could Go On Like […]
Yasmin Lennon-Chong is a designer producing work in the realm of graphic, product and spatial design, based in London, UK. With a background in visual communication and multidisciplinary design practice, their work considers the interplay between aesthetics, objects and environments as means to develop alternative modes of communication, experience and perceived functionality. Reworking extracted forms […]
Ben Ramsay (He/Him) is a writer and director from Kirkcaldy, Fife. He is driven to bring working class stories to the screen and stage, primarily experimenting with genre and true-to-life stories from his upbringing. Having recently completed a week-long run at the Edinburgh Fringe with his second play, VARMINTS, he was awarded a residency at […]
Claire Cunningham is a performer and creator of multi-disciplinary performance based in Glasgow, Scotland. One of the UK’s most acclaimed and internationally renowned disabled artists, Cunningham’s work is often rooted in the study and use/misuse of her crutches and the exploration of the potential of her own specific physicality with a conscious rejection of traditional dance […]
Laura Muetzelfeldt is a writer from Glasgow who has been published nationally and internationally in journals such as The International Literary Quarterly and New Writing Scotland. After completing an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, she worked as an English Teacher in Paisley for seven years. Laura has just completed a PhD […]
Nicola Russell is taking a year out of the corporate world of talent management (HR) to spend time writing. She comes to Cove Park to work on a memoir about family secrets, identity, and the discovery of her biological father, who was a prominent gay rights activist in New York in the 1960s and 70s. […]
Flo Fitzgerald-Allsopp is a creative producer, curatorial assistant and PhD researcher in the field of contemporary art and performance. Working closely and creatively with artists and arts organisations, she has delivered a diverse range of international collaborative projects across live performance, visual art and video. She is currently undertaking a Techne funded PhD with the […]
Rumpus Room is an artist-led initiative working in collaboration with children and young people on art and social action projects. The studio is co-run by artists and young studio members, hosting a programme of art and social action, developed with, for and by children & young people in Govanhill and across Scotland.
Zoë Bullock is a writer and performer from Sheffield, who lives in Glasgow. Her writing for theatre includes: Shō and the Demons of the Deep (Imaginate), The Listening Tree (Imaginate/Eco Drama, Edinburgh International Children’s Festival), Puss in Boots: A Solar Punk Pantomime (Hopscotch Theatre), Island Chains (New Earth Theatre, New Stories Festival) and Octopus (Alpine Fellowship Award finalist). Her short films include: The Air We […]
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal is a writer and translator, and was born in Palampur, India. She studied at St. Bede’s College, Shimla; Trinity College, Dublin; and Queen’s University, Belfast. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, German, Italian; and have appeared in Ambit, Bad Lilies, Banshee, bath magg, Cyphers, Gutter, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry […]
Alyson Olson’s practice is concerned with expanded painting through her use of objects, experiences, and the connections she makes with time and space. Her practice considers how the materiality of the works affect the viewer, engaging them in an experience of tension and ‘otherliness’. During Covid her practice, as for many, focused on her experiences […]
Dr Alexandra Ross is Lecturer in Contemporary Art and Curation at the University of Glasgow, convenor of the M.Litt in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art), a jointly run masters with The Glasgow School of Art. She is on the advisory faculty of the Transart Institute, New York and is Chair of ATLAS Arts, Skye. From 2015 […]
Dr Gayle Meikle is a Lecturer in Contemporary Art Curation primarily interested in curating as a creative practice. She teaches across the Fine Art and Media Culture and Heritage departments in the School of Arts and Culture at Newcastle University. Her curatorial work creates discursive and experimental platforms to present contemporary art. Previous projects have taken the […]
Laura Campbell is a Liverpool based sound artist & music composer, creating audio walks & sonic stories composed using field recordings alongside voice & electronic instrumentation. She is interested in sonic experiences themed around nature, isolation & escape, listening and collective sound making. Her sound work has been presented at festivals and galleries in North […]
Anna Szałucka is a pianist and collaborator. Her work emphasis cross-arts productions and finding new formats for classical music concerts. Currently a piano professor at The Royal Academy of Music in London, she released multiple albums with Naxos, Linn, October House Records and most recently Ulysses Arts. Anna is curious to explore her musical interests […]
Kate Young is a musician and composer from Edinburgh. Her work is driven by the exploration of new sounds found in traditional musics around the globe, which feed into her compositional world. As a musician, Kate combines voice with fiddle-playing techniques to conjure intriguing soundscapes as she navigates her way across musical genres. A recipient […]
Felix Taylor is an artist and composer working in a variety of different mediums. Taylor is currently working with Turner nominated collective Gentle / Radical – continuing research and art making around the grief and how we are followed and haunted by the ‘ghosts’ of things we’ve lost.
After forty plus years in the art gallery business in North Carolina, USA, Christie Taylor retired to the Eastern Shore of Maryland where she returned to painting the landscape. In 2017, she was awarded a Painting Fellowship from Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland. This year, she was given a Residency from Tyrone Guthrie Center, […]
Sean Wai Keung is a Glasgow-based poet, interdisciplinary and community artist. His work often uses food as a starting point for explorations of identity, migration, community and hospitality, and he enjoys challenging dominant notions of economics and exchange through participatory meal events. Sean was in residence at Cove Park in 2021 as part of the […]
Scottee is a self taught, multi-award winning artist and performer who has received critical acclaim for his work in theatre, audio and fine art. A multi-hyphenate, with a career spanning over 15 years, Scottee has demonstrated an ability to work successfully across art forms – radio, opera, photography, dance, live art and more. Commissioned by […]
Lisa Kelly is a Vietnamese/Australian harpist (Lake Kelly) and artist (The Moon Gallery) based in Meanjin, Brisbane Australia. Lisa has a focus on creating reflective and immersive art projects that explore human relationships with nature, themselves and others. Through the exploration of alchemical art practices Lisa seeks to create emotionally resonant works that explore experiences […]
Born in Cameroon, Clementine Burnley now lives and works between the U.K. and Germany. She has an MSc in Applied Linguistics from Manchester University and is a part-time, practice-based student at the Research Society for Process Oriented Psychotherapy – RSPOP, studying large group facilitation and conflict mediation. Her poems have been published in Ink, Sweat […]
Hannah Morgan is a recent graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art. Working primarily in sculptural installation, Hannah’s work centres around material components that consider emergence and decay within underground spaces. Most recently, Hannah has worked on a project series, Animula, which examines the geographic entangled states of the Sculptors cave in the Moray […]
AV (Adam Vaughn) is an Edinburgh-based writer, screenwriter, and teacher from Connecticut. They completed their Creative Writing MSc in 2021, serving as the Head Prose Editor for the From Arthur’s Seat anthology. They have also placed in numerous screenwriting contests, notably as a short-listed finalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition. AV is set to finish […]
Alison Irvine lives in Glasgow and is a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction. Her first novel This Road is Red (Luath 2011), based on the stories of residents and workers in Glasgow’s Red Road Flats, was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year award. Her second novel, Cat Step (Dead Ink 2020), […]
Anna Bambridge is a writer based in Glasgow. Her work is about seeing and being seen. She has studied physics and vision and draws from her scientific experience to explore how our perceptions are impacted by paradigm choice. During her time at Cove Park she will be working on her memoir “The Story of My […]
Meara Sharma is a writer and artist. Across her fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art, she is interested in the seams between matter and dreams, between bodies and topographies. Often, she is thinking about desire, as it pertains to our flesh, belief systems, geopolitics, and ecological relationships. Her work has appeared in Frieze, The Believer, Ambit, […]
Hannah Low is an early career theatre-maker and performer based in Edinburgh, who graduated in 2019 with a BA(Hons) in Musical Theatre. Since graduating she has performed with organisations such as the Lyceum, Tortoise in a Nutshell and BBC Scotland. Hannah has also taken part in a series of development and mentorship schemes with the […]
Kristina Marie Darling is the author of thirty-nine books. An expert consultant with the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and a twice-awarded Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Darling’s work has also been recognized with three residencies at Yaddo, where she has held the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency for a Poet and the Howard Moss Residency in Poetry; nine residencies […]
Cove Park Associate Anna Olson is a Scotland-based interdisciplinary artist. An MFA graduate from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, she studied creative and critical writing alongside philosophy and advanced art practice. This shifted her approach both in terms of material enquiry and methodology. Anna’s clay work is now intertwined with the […]
Annette Weisser is a visual artist and writer based in Berlin. She is currently teaching at Kunsthochschule Kassel. From 2006 to 2019 she lived in Los Angeles and taught at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena. Recurrent themes in her work of recent years are historical trauma and collective identity construction. In her collaborative work with […]
Kim Sherwood is an author and creative writing lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, where she lives in the city. Kim Sherwood’s first novel, Testament (2018), won the Bath Novel Award and Harper’s Bazaar Big Book Award. It was longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize and shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Pick. […]
Angela Davies is an artist living and working in Wales, interrogating a sense of place, of belonging, and the boundary systems and borders we create. Angela explores constructed networks in relation to fragile systems across natural, and psychological landscapes. She is interested in making connections between the political and the personal, between the intimate spaces […]
Jade Blood is an artist, printmaker and organiser. Jade co-founded York Zine Fest, a free biannual self publishing event and Artists with(out) green space; a project which encourages people to try growing without a garden. She teaches at Bootham School in York and YSJ University alongside her practice and embeds a DIY ethos and ‘radical […]
Hannah Lavery is a Scottish poet and playwright. She was appointed Edinburgh Makar (or city poet) in November 2021 for a three year term. She was also selected by Owen Sheers’ as one of his Ten Writers Asking Questions That Will Shape Our Future for the International Literature Showcase, a project from the National Writing […]
Abbie. L. Plant is a writer and poet based in Yorkshire, where she is currently writing her debut poetry collection ‘lucid dreams, meanderings and the contemplation of nothing’ and studying as an undergraduate at the University of Leeds. Her recent poem ‘Pheromones’ was displayed at the LEEDS YEAR OF CULTURE 2023 ‘More Than Just Talking’ […]
Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz is Personal Chair of Cinema and Iran at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on cinema and visual culture in the Middle East, particularly Iran. She has published in the fields of visual cultures, gender, and the engagement of religion and film, including Shi‘i Islam in Iranian Cinema: Religion and Spirituality […]
Anne Fleming is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, and children’s author whose writing has been shortlisted for Canada’s Governor-General’s Award, the Journey Prize, and four BC Book Prizes. The Goat was named one of the ten best children’s books of the year by The Wall Street Journal and the New York Public Library. She teaches […]
Dr. Cindy Holmes is a queer, cisgender, white settler of Scottish and Irish ancestry who lives in the unceded territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ people, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Victoria. Her interdisciplinary, community-engaged, arts-based, and collaborative research explores connections […]
Sean Negus is an artist who works in the expanded field of poetics. In addition to a book of poems published bilingually in Portuguese and English, Hurricane Music, he has also published an artist book in limited edition, Congeries. An ongoing project inquiring into a visual poetics of the archive continues to explore intersections of […]
Assistant Arts Professor of Live Art/Art as Social Practice Chinasa Vivian Ezugha is a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter. Her interdisciplinary practice spans Live Art, film, and drawing, questioning her identity as a Black woman living in England. Her works have been presented at SPILL Festival (2018), Performance Space (2018), In Between Time Festival […]
Farah Abdessamad is a French-Tunisian writer, critic, and essayist. Based in New York City since 2020, she has previously contributed to The Atlantic, The Nation, Observer, The TLS, Middle East Eye, The New Arab, and other venues on articles discussing art, heritage, and culture. She’s at work on long-form non-fiction projects.
This special residency involves tutors and students from the MSc Ecological Economics programme at the University of Edinburgh and Scotland’s Rural College. Developed in collaboration with Cove Park, this residency includes facilitated artist-led creative workshops. Ecological Economics is an interdisciplinary field that has emerged over the past half a century to critically examine how our economic […]
Tom Veeger is an award-winning architect, artist, curator and designer. His art and design have been shown in various art-spaces in the Netherlands and internationally. In his work as an artist, he has developed a special interest in the world of theatre, light and set design which is reflected in his performances and installations. In […]
Lucy Roscoe is an Illustrator working across the fields of Craft, Design and Art. She works with a variety of clients and regularly collaborates with a number of libraries, museums and archives. She is Lecturer in Illustration at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Lucy’s practice-based research relates to how books can be used […]
Kerry McGhee is a painter/illustrator and works under the brand KMG illustrations. She specialises in bespoke drawings and painting of places of significance to individual buyers. The former teacher of Art and Design has come to a stage in her life where she can progress her passion for creating. She works mainly in, charcoal, inks […]
Ashanti Harris is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher. Working with dance, performance, facilitation, sound, installation and writing, Ashanti’s work disrupts historical narratives and reimagines them from a Caribbean diasporic perspective. Recent commissions and exhibitions include: Jerwood Staging Series 2022, Jerwood Arts, London (2022); Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh (2022), An Exercise in […]
Julie Kennedy is a writer and teacher, highly commended in the recent 2022 Ledbury Poetry Competition. During her residency at Cove park, she hopes to finishing the final edit of an e-book of her first novel. She received a Scottish Government funded Scottish Publication Award in 2022 for this e-book project.
Maura Bedloe is a writer based in Tasmania, Australia. She is coming to Cove Park on an independently funded residency to develop a new work that blends memoir, fiction, and historical record. Maura’s work reflects her fascination with absence and presence, intergenerational connection to place, and the way people, particularly children, compose their own truths […]
Tess Taylor’s is a poet and theatre artist from northern California. Her poetry often explores place, history, and ecosystem, and has been praised for revealing ‘not so much a blending of the environmental and social, but that the two are inseparable and in direct relationship.’ She is the author of five collections of poetry and […]
Miranda Vissers is an environmental artist. She has a background of a MSc in environmental health studies and an education in monumental arts. Her work is created out of love for nature and also a concern about the environment. She works with mixed media, all her materials are either found in nature, donated or recycled. […]
After supporting in schools, Fiona wrote for young adults: Get Over It, Adventures, Onwards and Upwards. Before came her prize-winning short story, ‘Off the Beaten Track.’ She won the Unique Writing Publications Story Award with Love in Spiritual Awakenings. Published in an eBook anthology of short stories, The Heavenly Road Trip with Help For Writers, […]
Fascinated by microscopic landscapes, collaborators Anna Rhodes, Anna Reid & Milja Tuomivaara are developing a series of micro publications to explore topics such as sediments, moss and the miniature worlds contained in rock pools. Spanning out from micro: species, materiality and topographies we pose and explore macroscale concerns. Our micro residency at Cove Park will […]
Justin Armstrong is a Canadian cultural anthropologist and writer based in Boston, USA. His work explores the intersections of sound, landscape, and everyday life. He has written numerous articles and books on his research in the remote island communities of the North Atlantic, including Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Newfoundland. He teaches writing and anthropology […]
Felix Clarke is a PhD researcher in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh whose work is concerned with human/non-human animal relations. He is particularly interested in the political ecology of biodiversity conservation in the global north. His current work focuses on the cultural, political, social and ecological implications of wildlife reintroductions as a conservation […]
Matthew Lear is a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh where his research on ‘Repurposed Poetics and Anthropocene Time’ is funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership. He holds an MPhil in Criticism & Culture from the University of Cambridge and is an active […]
Ellie Bush is an artist and practice-based PhD student at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. She is interested in how art-based approaches can examine and amplify animal and plant temporalities specific to British rainforest ecologies and how more-than-human time is experienced in varying embodied and sensed ways. As an artist she has exhibited […]
Adam Frank is a first-year Philosophy PhD student at the University of Dundee. His research explores how practices of attentiveness in everyday life and academic research methods can lead to, but also limit, more sensitive ways of valuing and knowing the more-than-human world. In particular, he is working on developing a pedagogy that will facilitate […]
Sabrina Henry is a curator and costume designer. Her curatorial practise thinks through questions of post-coloniality as they exist in Scotland to contribute to the wider discourse around the effects of power and modernity with a focus on the geographies of the Atlantic. In her costume practice she works with artists of various disciplines to […]
Dr Hannah Proctor and Dr Akshi Singh have been awarded funding from the British Academy for a writing retreat as part of a project called ‘Migration and Racialisation: The Psyche and the Social’. As writers and academics who work in the field of medical humanities, the retreat brings together artists, writers and psychotherapists to explore […]
Dr Hannah Proctor and Dr Akshi Singh have been awarded funding from the British Academy for a writing retreat as part of a project called ‘Migration and Racialisation: The Psyche and the Social’. As writers and academics who work in the field of medical humanities, the retreat brings together artists, writers and psychotherapists to explore […]
Dr Hannah Proctor and Dr Akshi Singh have been awarded funding from the British Academy for a writing retreat as part of a project called ‘Migration and Racialisation: The Psyche and the Social’. As writers and academics who work in the field of medical humanities, the retreat brings together artists, writers and psychotherapists to explore […]
Dr Hannah Proctor and Dr Akshi Singh have been awarded funding from the British Academy for a writing retreat as part of a project called ‘Migration and Racialisation: The Psyche and the Social’. As writers and academics who work in the field of medical humanities, the retreat brings together artists, writers and psychotherapists to explore […]
Dr Hannah Proctor and Dr Akshi Singh have been awarded funding from the British Academy for a writing retreat as part of a project called ‘Migration and Racialisation: The Psyche and the Social’. As writers and academics who work in the field of medical humanities, the retreat brings together artists, writers and psychotherapists to explore […]
Dr Hannah Proctor and Dr Akshi Singh have been awarded funding from the British Academy for a writing retreat as part of a project called ‘Migration and Racialisation: The Psyche and the Social’. As writers and academics who work in the field of medical humanities, the retreat brings together artists, writers and psychotherapists to explore […]
Rodge Glass is the author of seven published books: three novels (No Fireworks, Hope for Newborns & Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs), a collection of short stories (LoveSexTravelMusik: Stories for the EasyJet Generation), a graphic novel (Dougie’s War, with Dave Turbitt), a literary portrait of Alasdair Gray (Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography), and most recently Michel Faber: The Writer & His […]
Flora Litchfield is an artist and sound therapist based in Edinburgh – working with laser light, nature, sound and moving image. Her work navigates geographical sites and psychological states as she seeks to address the relationship between architecture and landscape – and between evolution and erosion. Within her practice, she likes to explore how we […]
Alison Irvine lives in Glasgow and is a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction. Her first novel This Road is Red (Luath 2011), based on the stories of residents and workers in Glasgow’s Red Road Flats, was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year award. Her second novel, Cat Step (Dead Ink 2020), […]
Bryony McIntyre and Barry Esson are founding members of Arika, a Scotland-based political arts organisation concerned with supporting connections between artistic production and social change. Arika produces Episodes, an iterative program of multiformat public events staged at Tramway, an arts venue in Glasgow, that has addressed abolitionist politics, conceptual mathematics, disability justice, and the Black […]
Claudia Berghorn is a German writer and life writing teacher who works both in German and in English. Claudia has published two anthologies of life writing with her German students and is now working on her first collection of poetry. In her 365-day project this year, as a modern interpretation of the ancient Japanese tradition […]
Looking for a Likeness Within an Unlikeness A week-long residency led by Fraser Taylor and Lisa Woolley The emphasis will be on exploring the expansive vocabulary of drawing and its potential to trigger and develop the making of a dynamic body of work. Group discussions and critiques will be central in supporting each participant’s self-led […]
Chris Bogle is a writer and filmmaker based in the North East of England. He is currently in the first year of a practice-based PhD in creative writing at Northumbria University, where he is writing his first full length fiction work, a road novel which attempts to answer philosopher and journalist Mark Fisher’s challenge that […]
Lesley McIntyre is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Northumbria University, Newcastle. She is fascinated by the mystery of ‘what has gone before’ and driven to uncover and map the hidden histories and narratives of the sites she encounters. This has led her to develop a creative practice in exploring fragments of context, people, place, […]
Hannah Coulson is a Scottish artist, illustrator and educator. She studied Visual Communication at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Hannah is an Associate Artist in the Tate St Ives Artists Programme and has led a public engagement programme at the RCA that establishes inspiring exchanges between young people and creative […]
Verity-Jane Keefe is a visual artist working predominantly in the public realm to explore the complex relationship between people and place. She is interested in the role of the artist within urban regeneration and how experiential practice can touch upon and raise ambitions of existing and invisible communities. Working with moving image, text, object and […]
Gaada is an artist-led organisation which runs Toogs Art Workshop, a neurodiverse making community and Shetland’s only visual art workshop facility. It was founded in 2018 by artists Amy Gear and Daniel Clark. The organisation’s founding aim is to contribute toward a more inclusive cultural landscape in Shetland, which reflects the diversity and experience of […]
Sheila MacNeill is Glasgow based artist working in a range of paint based mediums. Her work represents interactions, reflections, memories of environments, exploring the boundaries between the natural environment and human imposed structures and debris. Sheila works work in mixed media creating collages created from the bi-products of everyday life. The work reflects entanglements of […]
Jane Alexander is a novelist and short story writer based in Edinburgh. After training at Edinburgh College of Art, she went on to study creative writing at the University of Glasgow and Northumbria University, gaining her PhD in 2018. Jane’s most recent work is in the field of speculative fiction; her latest novel A User’s […]
Sharon is a fibre and glass artist, trained at the Glasgow School of Art. Following her education in Scotland she attended the Banff Centre of Fine Arts in Alberta, Canada. She now lives and works in Toronto, Canada and is a founding member of Toronto’s Contemporary Textile Co-op. Sharon’s artistic practice includes screen-printing, digital printing, […]
Anna Reckin is a poet based in Norwich. Her first two collections, Three Reds and Line to Curve, are published by Shearsman. Over the last few years she has also worked as a translator, mainly in collaboration with Norwegian poet Hanne Bramness. She is currently exploring ways to extend her practice into book arts and […]
Roger Suckling’s work is based around themes of location/place and autobiography/identity, using photography and moving image to explore place and time, to map a visual account of both the present and the past. A process of revisiting and recording significant locations is combined with a contemporary documentation of the everyday, offering a reinterpretation with new […]
My artwork uses site specific installations, photography and collage. I’m interested in using ruptures and matter out of place to explore the interface between the built environment, the domestic, and the natural world. My site specific works explore and animate the politics / histories of the chosen place. I completed a Fine Art MA at […]
A visual artist, geographer, and researcher, Anne’s practice is anchored around human-environment connections and experimental printmaking. Physical and metaphorical journeys are influential and intrinsic, particularly linking place and identity. She is concerned with peripheries, boundaries, and unseen spaces, balancing her own creative work with collaborative environment-arts engagement projects. These activities have reciprocal influence. A passionate […]
Freya Dooley’s practice incorporates sound, writing, moving image, installation, and performance. Rooted in close-range observations, her semi-fictional narratives and sonic compositions often expand on the harmonies and tensions between personal and collective experiences. The voice – live, recorded, spoken, synchronised, muted, muttered and sung – is both a tool and subject in her work. She […]
My practice consists mainly of sculpture and light installation, supported by drawing, collage and creative writing. Through my practice I intend to impress upon the viewer a sense of their own cultural history whilst also investigating a history of images, creating a layered viewing experience. I often use familiar visual imagery within my artwork, such […]
Tajender Sagoo is a multi disciplinary artist with a core practice in textile weaving and print making, based in London. Her practice uses textiles in a multi disciplinary approach. She has a strong interest in using pattern and colour to investigate the relationships between objects and the ideas that they express in the historical and […]
Dr Myles-Jay Linton is a Bristol-based psychologist, artist and facilitator. In 2019 Myles was awarded a Vice Chancellors Fellowship at the University of Bristol where he leads a programme of research into young peoples’ mental health. Myles’ creative practice is informed by his work as a psychologist and involves using figurative illustration to explore the […]
Ella Thumim is a visual artist based in London. Working mainly in painting and drawing, her practice explores the moments and materials of our everyday lives, focussing on the rich textures to be found in the everyday. In these seemingly inconsequential details are old ghosts, tributes to the passage of time. Exploring the poetry and […]
Scott Robertson (born in Ayr) is an artist with a conceptually driven practice. He works without a fixed studio or dedicated time to his practice, and connects people and ideas together in the hope of forming something. Artwork that can be made on his phone while on the way back from working for more successful […]
Helen Kellock is a award-winning author and illustrator based in Glasgow. At the heart of Helen’s practice is a love of drawing, narrative and making picture books. Her first author-illustrated book, The Star in the Forest, was published in 2019 by Thames & Hudson. Her second book, Out to Sea, published in 2021, was shortlisted […]
Catherine Spencer is an art historian and writer based at the University of St Andrews. Her book Beyond the Happening: Performance Art and the Politics of Communication was published by Manchester University Press in 2020. In 2021 she co-curated the exhibition Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism at Glasgow Women’s Library. Her […]
Anna Bambridge is a writer based in Glasgow. Her work is about seeing and being seen. She has studied physics and vision and draws from her scientific experience to explore how our perceptions are impacted by paradigm choice. During her time at Cove Park she will be working on her memoir “The Story of My […]
Dr Susannah Haslam is an independent research practitioner and tutor (research) in humanities at the Royal College of Art in London. She currently works in collaboration with Dr Dani Admiss, Lou Marcellin, Araceli Camargo, Megha Ralapati, Apex Zero, and Charles Pryor developing an open curriculum for the Sunlight Doesn’t Need A Pipeline project and the […]
Whether it’s birds, flowers, hares, trees or landscapes, Sandra Vick’s work is quintessentially about capturing the essence. She looks for patterns and shapes, colours and tones, lines and textures that capture the import aspects of her subject that only they have. Whether it’s the shape and movement of a bird or hare, the clash and […]
Tomoko Otani is a Japanese artist based in Tokyo. She graduated from Musashino Art University corresponding course in 2022, specialising in printing. She also gained a degree in Journalism, Film and Broadcasting from Cardiff University in 2000. When she works in her studio in Tokyo she uses techniques such as lithography, photography, collage and monotype […]
Henry Coleman works around the spaces of designed experience, bumping up against architecture, typography, signage and the decorative; reframing and making obvious the established edges of the aesthetic conditions that shape and reflect the societies and images that we move through. Drawing down on the historical material of social and visual momentum to illuminate contemporary […]
Associate Annie Crabtree and Seth Hannah will be working on the voiceover script for new moving image work ‘Haunting’ while at Cove Park. ‘Haunting’ asks how identity is formed by place and family of origin using the gothic novel ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Brontë as a vessel to explore addiction, dysfunctional love, and intergenerational trauma. […]
Caroline Bagenal was born on the Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland. She is a sculptor and freelance writer with an MFA in Painting and an MA in Modern Art History, Theory and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her works have been shown at the Maritime Museum in Liverpool, UK, The Qorikancha […]
James Ross is a pianist and composer who pushes the boundaries of Scottish traditional music. James released his debut album on the Greentrax label, a mix of his piano arrangements of traditional and original material. Chasing the Sun, Ross’s second recording, is a seven-movement suite, evoking a day’s and a year’s westward journey along Scotland’s […]
Grace Denton (she/her) is an artist and writer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, and currently in her third year of a practice-based PhD at Northumbria University. Her practice encompasses video, performance, text and textile-based installation. Her conceptual focus is the language of sovereignty, and how this relates to her recently diagnosed ADHD. As part of […]
Tricky Hat Productions brings The Flames to Cove Park at the beginning of every year for invaluable time and space to explore and experiment with the theatre, dance, music and audio-visual art forms they use. They challenge themselves, and The Flames, to create new ideas and approaches through art form collaborations. What they produce at […]
Robbie MacLeòid visits Cove Park for a writing residency through Playwrights’ Studio’s Play Development Bursary. This programme provides financial and practical support to create the first full draft of a new play over the course of a year. Robbie MacLeòid is a writer and academic who works in both Scottish Gaelic and English. His work […]
Karen Maxted graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with distinction in 2018, specialising in painting. Since then, she has worked out of her studio in Troon and from Glasgow Print Studios. She is a professional member of Visual Arts Scotland and the Society of Scottish Artists. She has work in the Art Collections of Edinburgh […]
Associate artist Jana Kühne returns to Cove Park as part of our 2023 Winter Subsidised Residencies programme. Jana Kühne is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in London where she is studying a BA in Fine Art at the Art Academy London. Jana uses art as a catalyst, substitute, and extension of wilderness experiences, seeking connections […]
Freya Pocklington studied a BA at Edinburgh College of Art (2006) and an MA at UAL (2009). Solo exhibitions include: Ostara, Broadway Gallery (2022) and Behind the Blue Curtain, Oxford University Hospitals (2019). Group exhibitions include: V&A Select Prints (2021) and The Ruth Borchard Portrait Prize (2021). Past residencies include The National Trust, Scottish Arts […]
Sylvia Waltering was born in Germany and based in Manchester. Her creative practice uses a variety of media, such as photography, printmaking, writing and artist books to explore how we make sense of place and strive to belong. The physical experience of place through walking and ‘taking part in the existence of things’ (Keats) inspires […]
Associate artist Caroline Brothers returns to Cove Park as part of our 2023 Winter Subsidised Residencies programme. Caroline Brothers is a novelist who works at the intersection between fiction and reportage. Born in Australia, she lived for many years in France and Latin America but is now London-based. She is the author of The Memory Stones and the […]
American artist Justine Ashbee has over 20 years of experience in the fields of Textile Arts. Her work explores the natural landscape, ephemeral realms of magic, and references themes of alchemy in nature. Recent investigations incorporate amuletic objects with flora from local hedgerows, casting visual spells imprinted onto fabric through light sensitive photographic techniques. These are temporal […]
Martyn Riley is a North-London based Sound Artist and Musician, originating from Derbyshire. His Sound Art practise specialises in memory and sound-triggers, by employing a multitude of experimental recording techniques utilizing new and older analogue methods of sound composition. Manipulating sonic landscapes to challenge the listeners perceptions of environment and sound. Martyn is currently studying […]
Janice Parker and Emmie McLuskey have worked together since 2016, exploring the intersection of movement with archive, influence and how dance is recorded and shared. Previous projects include 1973 – Archiving the Live at the City Arts Centre and Glasgow Womens’ Library, Notes on the Floor and To My Future Body at KW Berlin, these […]
Barbora Comer & Lucia Simaskova are cultural organisers based in Prague, Czech Republic. They have been involved in various artistic projects as producers, coordinators and managers locally and internationally. Theirs key focus is a development of the We, the landscape Residency & Research Program that connects a natural world and performance practicies. Within the preparation for this […]
Project X is a multi-disciplinary, collectively run organisation based in Scotland, platforming dance of the African and Caribbean Diaspora. We collaborate with artists and organisations, to deliver bespoke workshops, facilitate conversations, produce and curate performances and events in Scotland and beyond. Project X is about changing the conversations and perceptions around dance of the African […]
Uma Nada-Rajah is a playwright and nurse based in Kilbarchan, Scotland. She was a member of the Young Writers’ Program at the Traverse Theatre and a recipient of a New Playwrights’ Award from Playwrights’ Studio Scotland. Uma was one the BBC’s Scottish Voices 2020, and was also recently the Starter Female Political Comedy Writer-in-Residence at […]
Patricia Haemmerle is based in Switzerland. She received a PhD in 1996 from the University of Zurich (dissertation: ‘Silhouette of Time. Photography and Reality’). In 1997 she moved with her 14 year old son to New York and studied on the General Studies Certificate Program at the International Center of Photography (ICP), NY. Subsequently independent […]
Eyal Edelman is a maker and artist specialising in Creative Fabrication. He works from his studio in Hackney London and has extensively collaborated with various creatives nationally and internationally. Eta’s work has been exhibited in Asia, Europe and North America. He has been a visiting lecturer at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.
Kate Cowcher is Lecturer in Art History and Co-Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art at University of St Andrews. Her research encompasses modern and contemporary art from Africa, cultural exchange in the Cold War, and collections of historic and modern art from the African continent in the UK. In 2021 she curated the exhibition […]
Rowan Paton is an award winning painter, living and working in Edinburgh. Employing print, collage, wordplay, and pattern, her work is characterised by the development of imagined visual space. This seeks to explore various themes, such as mental health, using humour, play and narrative.
Ellie Griffiths is Artistic Director and Co-CEO of Oily Cart, a sensory theatre company that make accessible immersive shows, films and installations for and with children of all ages. Previous Oily Cart shows have taken place in hydrotherapy pools, on trampolines, and even with the audience floating up in the air! As an independent artist […]
Laila Noble is a Queer identifying Director, Producer and Playwright from Wales, based in Scotland. She is the inaugural winner of the St. Andrews Playwriting Award and the premier of this play will be in early 2023. Laila is also a winner of the Scottish Arts’ Club Bright Spark Award, runner up for Theatre Uncut’s […]
Flora Fettah is a curator and art critic. Studying at École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France), Flora conducted research in Arts, Aesthetics and Social Sciences on ‘The border crisis in Morocco seen by contemporary artists and their place in public debates.’ She understands contemporary creation through the lens of its political, social […]
Adrian Bach is a PhD student at the crossing of conservation science, social sciences and modelling at the University of Stirling (UK). With a background in evolutionary biology and ecological systems modelling, his research interest first leaned towards Self-Organisation with the study of collective diet choices in ant colonies and of collective motion in locusts […]
A graduate from the London College of Communication MA Sound Arts programme, Samm Anga’s work equips a sonic flirtation with mythology and storytelling, re-contextualising themes of identity and the Self within audiovisual displays. Based in Aberdeen, he has been expanding his musical background and honing his specialism in all things sound-related over the last few […]
Lene is a French/American artist based in Glasgow. She is a recent graduate in Interaction Design from the GSA. Her work and interest interweaves code and digital technology as a medium for art, playing and conversating between analog and digital media. A lot of her works are sketches, explorations, and experiments that research and investigate […]
As an artist & composer, Lucy Duncombe is interested in exploring the socio-technical legacy of voice-based technologies. Formerly a self–taught experimental vocalist, new work (2019-2022) draws on practices of extended vocal technique via technological augmentation, voice cloning and virtual singing. Recent projects include; The Rapture of Cellular Accretion and 3rd Remove from the Real. She […]
“Most things die, except ideas.” Ghada Eissa is an audiovisual artist who seeks all means to support self-expression and create raw experiences through her experimentation with different media. What drives her work is an aspiration to create a work of art that provokes a certain idea/ emotion/ question/ connection with someone, so that even if […]
Nik is a Counter Tenor vocalist, composer, artist and DJ. They make work that considers experiences of networked presence, polymorphous bodies and vocal transformation. Situated between song, collective performance and dance, their practice explores the complex relational quality of sound in space, while creating spaces of shared connection, confrontation and joy. Nik is a permanent […]
Becky Šik is an artist filmmaker based in Glasgow and whose work spans moving image, installation, sound, music, writing and publishing. Becky’s recent moving image work explores the echo, electromagnetic phenomena and technologies as way of understanding the body’s relationship to constructs of time and state. Sound and experimental music are central to the work […]
Alex Smoke is a musician and composer; operating in various fields of sound including electronic production, sound installation and instrumental composition. His main interest is in combining traditional forms of composition and musicianship with the more experimental approaches allowed by modern technology. Initially trained in classical cello, drums and singing, then progressing to electronic production […]
Ferronia is an artist and musician working across performance, installation, sound and digital media. Her work explores the relational and reimaginative possibilities embedded in listening and sound. Through processes of recording and digital transformation, her work captures traces of intimacy and friendship. Collaboration with others runs through and nourishes her practice. Recent projects include A WARMTH […]
Jamie Johnson is a Glasgow based artist that works across collage, painting and printmaking. His work communicates observations and ideas by creating an autonomous visual language through form, colour and symbolism. He often dyes paper by hand to create textural collage material, allowing a sense of controlled chance into his work. Cut fragments are arranged […]
Elizabeth Ann Day (she/her) is a Fife-born artist and arts organiser based in Dundee, Scotland. Graduating with a BA in Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in 2018, Day was selected to become a Graduate Resident at the university, focussing much of her time on the development of DJCAD Zine […]
Diljeet Bhachu and Hardeep Singh Deerhe are based in Glasgow and represent the Scottish-Asian Creative Artists’ Network. The network serves as a forum for creative artists who identify as Scottish-Asian to meet other artists. It aims to help Scottish-Asian creative artists develop work within their communities, and also encourage collaborations between Scottish-Asian communities and artists. […]
Naeem Dxvis is an interdisciplinary artist and curator with a sentimental approach. Their work has emotional resonance, processing feelings of longing, disorientation, joy, nostalgia and desire. As the creative director and co-founder of BBZ, for the past 6 years they have curated shows across the globe and worked in partnership with Tate, ICA, Glastonbury Festival, […]
Haneem Christian is a Visual Poet born and raised in Grassy Park, Cape Town. Christian is a graduate of Gender Studies and Environmental and Geographical Sciences from the University of Cape Town. After graduating, Christian forged their way as a formidable Creative Director and Photographer, with a particular focus on representation within the Black and […]
Alaa Zouiten was born in Casablanca, Morocco, where he began his career as a master performer of the oud. Alaa moved to Germany in 2009, where he continued to experiment with the stylistic, technical and aesthetic possibilities of his instrument. In his compositions and arrangements, Alaa constantly seeks new musical perspectives. As a curator, he has […]
Anna Ekborg is a member of Sweden’s exciting new generation of talented young fiddle players. Drawing inspiration from her country’s rich fiddle playing traditions, Anna has built up an extensive and varied repertoire. In 2021, she released her critically-acclaimed debut album, ‘SOLO’. Nominated for a Swedish Grammy, the album has cemented Anna’s position as one […]
Lucie Hendry is a Scottish lever harpist and composer, based in Denmark. Interested in exploring the possibilities of the lever harp, Lucie is currently going about intertwining her folk music roots with influences from the Nordic jazz and wider music scene. Lucie’s upcoming debut solo album aims to take her instrument in new directions, with […]
Malin Lewis is a musician, composer, instrument maker, educator, and musical director from the Scottish Highlands. They play a range of instruments including various bagpipes, fiddle and whistle. Malin performs regularly across the UK with their trio, Malin Makes Music. Their music draws inspiration from piping traditions across Europe and features self-penned tunes as well […]
Cherif Soumano is a rising star of the kora. Based in Paris, Cherif’s music is of its time, while being deeply and clearly rooted within the traditional Mande kora repertoire that his father passed onto him in his homeland of Mali. He has performed alongside renowned musicians including Dee Dee Bridgewater, Tiken Jah Fakoly, and […]
Iona Lane is a Leeds-based folk singer and songwriter. Fascinated by folklore and folk stories, Iona’s music is inspired by natural landscapes, scientific discoveries, human relationships and the supernatural, all tied together by a strong sense of place and a love for being in wild places. Her long-awaited debut album, ‘Hallival’ (2022) – named after […]
Born in Tehran and based in Belgium, Shahab Azinmehr is a vocalist and virtuoso player of the tar – a long-necked, narrow-waisted lute-type instrument (from Persian: تار, literally “string”), found in many cultures in Iran, Azerbaijan, and further afield. With a background in the restoration of historical monuments, Shahab began his music career as a singer, later […]
Ranjana Ghatak is a singer and composer embedded in the classical and devotional Hindustani vocal tradition. Born and raised in London, Ranjana has collaborated and performed with a host of celebrated artists including Nitin Sawhney, Jason Singh, and recently alongside James Yorkston and Jon Thorne (as Yorkston/Thorne/Ghatak). Her debut solo album, ‘The Butterfly Effect’, was […]
The poet Thomas A Clark lives in a fishing village on the east coast of Scotland. His selected poems, The Threadbare Coat, was published by Carcanet Press in 2020. In many publications from his own Moschatel Press, Thomas A Clark explores possibilities for presentation as an aspect of form; in simple formats of books and […]
Since early 2021, James and Eric have been collaborating on an ongoing project – Pathlines – that brings together James’ artwork and Eric’s poetry to track and trace interactions between the human observer and the flightpaths of various animals: birds, bees, and so on. A number of these collaborations appeared in Prototype 3 (2021). Previously, […]
Carlyn Wright-Eakes is an artist and educator from Durham, North Carolina. Her public and community artistic work – from murals to installations and interactive exhibits – centre around themes of identity, community, storytelling and social justice. Carlyn’s abstract paintings are reflections on perspective and mindfulness. At first, one may observe the overall landscape, and move […]
Isabel Ferrari (she/her) graduated in 2021 from the University of Glasgow with a Joint Honours Degree in English and Comparative Literature, and she is completing an MLitt in Fantasy Literature from the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include modern fantasy literature, transmedia fantasy, and mythology and folklore in fantasy. She is currently working on […]
Georgia Holmer has spent over 25 years working on international human rights, peace and security as a writer, analyst, advisor, and artist. Her creative work explores issues of bodily and emotional autonomy, human dignity in life and death, and the nature of peace and violence. Her art also reflects a reverence and connection to the […]
Carl Linstrum is an artist and educator from Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He has maintained an active studio practice in painting and other media for over 30 years and is currently a full-time professor of drawing, painting, and design at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta. He has exhibited work all over the […]
Nocturn Dance shines a light on later life dancers with an invitation to co-create interactive digital dance adventures.
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 short fiction has been published internationally and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She lives in Glasgow where she is a Royal Literary […]
Lili Chin is a visual artist based in New York City. Her interdisciplinary art practice incorporates natural materials, film, video, ceramics, weaving and mixed media to mine historical and personal narratives. She has exhibited at the the Drawing Center and the Abrazo Interno Gallery (NYC). Her films have screened at Microscope Gallery (Queens, NY) as […]
Erica Scourti is an artist and writer, born in Athens and based in Athens and London. She has performed, exhibited and presented talks internationally, at spaces like High Line New York, Wellcome Collection, Kunsthalle Wien, Hayward Gallery, Munich Kunstverein, ICA London and EMST Athens; she recently participated in the 7th Athens Biennale (2021). Her writing […]
Amber Elison works across disciplines to mine the felt experience between presence and absence, legible and illegible, said and unsaid. Through video, performance, photography, and text, she questions the relationship of personal narrative, familial and social histories, and ancestral folklore. Often collaborating with dance and sound artists she seeks multi-sensory methods of processing the tendency […]
Eoghan Walls is an Irish poet. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2006, and his most recent collection – Pigeon Songs(Seren 2019) was shortlisted for the Piggot Prize. He recently translated a mammoth collection of Heidegger’s poetry (Thought Poems, Rowman 2021), and his debut novel – The Gospel of Orla – is due to come […]
Haley Dercher is a screenwriter who injects fresh, modern subject matter with warmth and wit. She crafts sharp, relatable, memorable female protagonists who are flawed yet fearless. Haley received her Master of Arts degree from New York University in Media, Culture, and Communication, with a concentration in Visual and Cultural Studies. The Screencraft Fellowship said […]
Debashree Mukherjee and Lotte Hoek are film and media scholars whose research engages the histories, practices and forms of global media. At Cove Park, we will develop ongoing monograph projects. We are part of the BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies editorial collective. Debashree Mukherjee is Associate Professor of film and media in the Department of […]
Hallie Maxwell is an American interdisciplinary artist. In her practice, Maxwell creates processes of making that sit in between disciplines such as drawing, sculpture, performance, installation, and printmaking. Through experimentation, she combines materials to make systems that are then repeated. Maxwell is influenced by her Japanese American heritage and explores identity, materiality, and spirituality. She […]
Claire Jussel is a poet, writer, and artist from Boise, Idaho. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in West Trade Review, Black Fox Literary Magazine, CP Quarterly, and The Lit Mug. She serves as an associate poetry editor at West Trade Review and has most recently resided in Minnesota where she worked as a […]
Sarah Calmus is an interdisciplinary artist, programmer, creative director, arts advocate and creator of large-scale immersive installations and provocations, working across a multitude of mediums from glass and light, social intervention, moving image and sound. Interested in building spaces to connect and reflect, her practice is intentionally interdisciplinary and participatory, viewed as a series of […]
Julia is a Liverpool-based theatre and film-maker. Her work is accessible, playful, political and thoughtful. She tells female-focused, under-represented stories, often exploring questions where mainstream debate and discourse lacks nuance. From 2006-21, she was Co-Artistic Director of 20 Stories High, where she made a range of award-winning work through collaboration between artists and young people. […]
Combining sculpture, painting and drawing, Dean Knight constructs open-ended narratives that intersperse the primitive, the comedic, the seductive and the grotesque. A self-conscious and tongue-in-cheek take on an obsessive and objectifying male artist is explored, along with the role of the gay man as clown or peripheral deviant. Previous solo exhibitions include Modern Sculpture, Project Space […]
Dr Laura Haynes is a writer, editor and academic based in Glasgow, UK. She is co-director of MAP Magazine, and at The Glasgow School of Art is leader of the studio-based interdisciplinary Art Writing Graduate Programme, where she also edits The Yellow Paper: Journal for Art Writing. Laura’s research and writing is concerned with autotheory and biomythography as […]
Radha D’Souza is a critical scholar, social justice activist, barrister, and writer from India. Together with visual artist Jonas Staal, she is the co-producer of Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes, which ran at Framer Framed, Amsterdam until 16 January 2022. The exhibition is based on Radha’s book What’s Wrong With Rights? (Pluto, 2018). Radha teaches […]
Dr Myles-Jay Linton is a Bristol-based psychologist, artist and facilitator. In 2019 Myles was awarded a Vice Chancellors Fellowship at the University of Bristol where he leads a programme of research into young peoples’ mental health. Myles’ creative practice is informed by his work as a psychologist and involves using figurative illustration to explore the […]
Molly Astley is an artist, poet and musician based in London. Her work is concerned with nature, the body, and the porous boundary between the two. Lead often by improvisational, automatic processes, her practice starts from a place of embodiment and sensory awareness. Recent projects have explored the relationship between the ecological health of the environment, personal […]
Ese Ighorae is an actress, playwright, facilitator, keen to explore the world issues and write political theatre through humour that challenges our perceptions. Ese Ighorae studied BA Acting and Community theatre at East15 Acting school graduating in 2013. In 2016 she was Longlisted for the Charlie Hartil competition and awarded a Younger theatre grant by […]
Rebecca Buckley is an artist, community art facilitator and writer who was born in London. Rebecca graduated with a BA in Writing and Publishing with Drama and spent time working in the film industry as a technician but found her creative vocation as an artist whilst studying Landscape Design. Rebecca is largely self-taught but has […]
Daniel is a multi-disciplinary artist and potter from Bolton, based in Manchester. Primarily working with clay, he has exhibited works across the UK and Ireland, as well as teaching regular workshops from his own studio, and others ceramic studios around Manchester. “Clay continually fascinates me, and my practice is rooted in this admiration for the […]
Zero Waste Design Online is an international collective that develops online educational resources in the field of zero waste design and systems thinking for fashion. We seek to transform the industry through education, community collaboration and open dialogue around garment construction, pattern cutting, design methods and innovative use of technology. Zero Waste Design develops methods […]
Julian Stanford is an emerging painter in oils. A few years ago, against much good advice, he gave up his career in the film & cinema industries to pursue his passion for creating images of his own. He lives and has his studio in the English countryside by the Thames, but also draws on his […]
An explorer and lover of the natural world, the underwater world and the ever changing elements; Amy takes inspiration for her paintings from her travels, recently Iceland and the dynamic changing weather, and the tides and coastline of Cornwall where she lives. The boundaries of where land and water merge is an ongoing and perhaps […]
Visual artists Kirsty Stansfield and Jeni Pearson met while working together in a hospice, creatively supporting patients and families living with a life-limiting illness. We found a shared interest in critically engaging with ideas of participation and creativity. Funded by Creative Scotland, Autonomy of Practice provides a period of artistic research and development. This focuses […]
Laura Hynd’s practice centres around transformation through the experience of photographing. She works with photography and is currently researching settling, purification and women’s bond with intuition, through practical and theoretical enquiry. She explores these themes through the lens of motherhood, single parenthood and selfhood. Laura’s work has been exhibited at Noorderlicht Photo Festival, MoMA Tbilisi, […]
The Scottish Artists Union delivers a programme of bespoke workshops, courses and events throughout the year. The Learning Programme creates opportunities for all members to undertake training to improve their sector skills, address the barriers to freelance work, and participate fully as workers within the sector. How to Write is a residential course for Scottish Artists […]
‘Kitchen Conversations’ is a short retreat hosted at Cove Park with the international research group Feminism Art Maintenance (F.A.M.) – Yin Aiwen, Petra Bauer, Binna Choi, Mijke van der Drift, Marius Dybwad Brandrud, Fabiana Ex-Sousa, Annette Krauss, Frances Stacey, Kirsten Lloyd, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Nat Raha, Jenny Richards, and Marina Vishmidt. It has been devised as […]
Leah Storrs-Fisher is a full time artist from Columbus, OH, USA. She graduated from the Columbus College of Art & Design in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree focusing in printmaking and art history. She is predominantly a screen printer and watercolorist but occasionally dabbles in embroidery, linocuts and any mix of these […]
Titus Davies’ artwork includes sculptural installation, photography and collage. They are interested in using ruptures and matter out of place to explore the interface between the built environment, the domestic, and the natural world. Davies completed a Fine Art MA at Wimbledon School of Art in 2010, basing a final show around the politics and […]
Morven Macbeth is an actor, theatre maker and facilitator based in Scotland. She is an Associate Practitioner with UK theatre company imitating the dog, whose work has, for over 20 years, explored the boundaries between theatre and technology. Morven has toured extensively both nationally and internationally, performing as well as facilitating workshop programmes and leading […]
Maria Falconer is a photographic practitioner, teacher and writer. A Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Maria lectures and runs photography workshops across the UK and in Europe. Maria’s commercial specialty is Dance Photo/videography. She has worked at the Edinburgh Festival every year since 2006, and her work has frequently been published in The Guardian, […]
Jill Skulina is an artist of diverse skills, knowledge and experience. She creates sculptural work using ceramics, drawing, printmaking, painting, textiles and found objects. In recent months Jill has been pivoting her career as an artist to include writing and mentoring other artists to shift they’re perceptions of what they can achieve. Since 2018 Jill […]
Jill O’Sullivan is a Glasgow-based multi-instrumentalist/singer/songwriter who writes and performs across the worlds of popular music, theatre and dance. O’Sullivan was a founding member of Sparrow and the Workshop & Bdy_Prts and has collaborated with a multitude of renowned musicians including Alasdair Roberts, Alex Neilson, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Scott Hutchinson, Emma Pollock, and James Yorkston, […]
Ailie Robertson is a multi-award-winning Scottish composer and musician who has been commissioned to compose works by some of the worlds’s most prestigious cultural institutions including the BBC Proms, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bang on a Can, Cappella Nova, the Riot Ensemble, Exaudi, Scottish Ensemble and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra amongst others. She holds […]
Brass Art is the longstanding collaborative practice of Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz and Anneke Pettican. Within their practice they work between drawing, sculpture, moving image, 3D + 4D bodyscanning technologies, immersive installation, archival interventions, and augmented reality. They use analogue and digital technologies as a means to disrupt conventional narratives and to capture themselves in […]
Jane Rogoyska is a writer. She is the author of three books: Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa (Jonathan Cape, 2013), a novel, Kozłowski (Holland House, 2019, Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2020) and Surviving Katyń: Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth (Oneworld 2021, Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize 2022, Longlisted […]
Raised on the family croft on the island of South Uist, Rona is part of the lost generation of Gaelic speakers, where many were discouraged from connecting with Gaelic language and culture at school, in a time before the Gaelic-Medium revival had begun. From a family of renowned Gaelic singers, storytellers and pipers she tries […]
Saoirse Amira Anis is a visual artist and writer based in Dundee. Their practice is multidisciplinary and spans across film-making, sculpture, performance and writing. She is currently working towards an exhibition with Cample Line which will be a presentation of work related to their artistic alter ego, Freedom Princess, who Anis initially devised whilst at […]
In October 2021, I attended an online presentation “Glacial Narratives” hosted by the Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust, North Uist, about artistic responses to climate change. This inspired me to secure two artist residencies on the Island of Lewis in March and in Iceland in May to further my work on climate change. As a papermaker, I […]
Helen Whittaker joined Barley Studio in 1998 and is an award-winning designer and maker of stained-glass windows and metal sculpture, directing restoration painting alongside her new design work. She is a Fellow of the British Society of Master Glass Painters (FMGP), a Liveryman and Court Member of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers, winning, judging and […]
Simon is a writer, a printmaker and a multi-award-winning producer of children’s animation, including ‘Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids’ and ‘Wolves, Witches & Giants’. His printmaking practice dates back to his time at the Cambridge School of Art, and later, St Martin’s School of Art. He went on to study animation at West Surrey College […]
Sara Bor is a visual artist. The dominant theme of her practice is responding to natural environments. Nature and landscape have been part of her being since a childhood spent in the Peak District. The narrative investigates a correlation with the geography of these landscapes and how human interventions have shaped the terrain. Eroded moorlands, wilderness, […]
Julie Kennedy writes poetry and fiction and teaches part-time in a secondary school. During her short time at Cove Park, she will work on a poetry sequence around the themes of memory, class, immigration and coastlines. Julie is open-minded as to where her residency might take her: Having spent time at Cove Park before she […]
I am a Glasgow-based visual artist, forming my practice through exploration and utilisation of diverse materials as reflections of my inner, and outer, environment. When forming dialogues between surfaces and textures, I let my surroundings guide me in my work. As they mold my creativity – so I mold my creations. Based on my location, […]
UNFIX is an arts festival based in Scotland programming work concerned with ecological crisis, climate change and hyper-capitalism. UNFIX started in Glasgow (Scotland) in 2015 and now run events there and in New York City (US), Tokyo (Japan) and Bologna (Italy). We conceive of individual human lives as a microcosm of the whole, and puts […]
Michael Donkor studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, undertook a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway and now teaches English Literature at St Paul’s Girls’ School in London. The Observer named him as one of 2018’s best debut authors for his first novel Hold (4th Estate) and in 2019, he was longlisted for the […]
Kenny Boyle is a writer and actor from the Isle of Lewis. He trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and holds a masters in classical and contemporary text, as well as an honours degree in English, literature and theatre studies from the University of Strathclyde. He is the star, alongside Natalie Clark, of the […]
Alison Burnley is a creative producer with a focus on supporting communities and emerging artists to share their stories through theatre, ceremony and song. Whether reimagining folk tales and feasting on medieval bread; or contemplating what we’re thankful for whilst lighting floating bonfires, she creates experiential works that provoke the mind and gives voice to […]
Lauren is an arts writer, critic, lecturer and Chair of Cove Park’s Board of Trustees. She recently served as Chair of CCA Glasgow for seven years — and on the Boards of Outset Scotland, David Dale Gallery, Market Gallery and on the Friends Committee of Glasgow School of Art. She was Director of The Kitchen […]
TJ Emerson’s latest psychological thriller, The Perfect Holiday, will be published by Boldwood Books in April 2022. Before writing fiction, Tracey worked in theatre and community arts. As well as acting, she ran drama workshops in healthcare settings, focusing on adults with mental health issues. Her short stories have been widely published in anthologies and […]
Farah Abdessamad is an essayist, literature and art critic at work on several long-form projects including a novel and a collection of essays. Farah’s writings commonly thread on themes related to ideas, history and culture. She lives with a big suitcase which is resting, for now, in New York City.
Sarah Trounce grew up in East Anglia and studied English at Birmingham University, before moving to London. She worked as a manager in the design industry for ten years and is now a freelance consultant and writer, collaborating with creative people all over the world. Sarah was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize […]
I am a geographer, printmaker, emerging artist, and writer. I maintain a strong focus on the places and spaces where we pause to connect with our environment, and our journeys through it, both physical and metaphorical. Following a deliberate escape from a corporate university career I now use art to provoke questions and conversation. Relief […]
Sheila MacNeill is Glasgow based artist working in a range of paint based mediums. Her work represents interactions, reflections, memories of environments, exploring the boundaries between the natural environment and human imposed structures and debris. Sheila works work in mixed media creating collages created from the bi-products of everyday life. The work reflects entanglements of […]
Martyn Riley is a North-London based Sound Artist and Musician, originating from Derbyshire. His Sound Art practice specialises in the manipulation of sonic landscapes and acoustic ecology to challenge the listeners perceptions of their environment and its sounds. He employs experimental recording techniques utilizing new and older methods of composition thus creating triggers of memories […]
Originally from Northern Italy, Luca Serra has been living in Scotland since 2014. He has dedicated himself to writing for about ten years and has so far written two novels and various short stories. In 2020 he received the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for Fiction. Luca is particularly interested in contemporary social issues […]
Bonnie Radcliffe is a writer whose work explores storytelling and the sea, women and water, nature, motherhood and folklore. She loves exploring character, especially the seemingly mundane or unappreciated, and uses setting to evoke a strong sense of mood. She would be adrift without stories. While primarily a writer, Bonnie also paints and draws, and […]
Charlotte Smithson is an artist and creative producer based in Manchester, whose work blends design, craft and botany. A fascination with nature is evident in Charlotte’s work, which she explores through site specific installation, stitch, drawing, photography and plant studies. Charlotte’s work has been exhibited across the UK, including at the Garden Museum London, RHS […]
Amy Pennington makes work that uses humour to connect human experiences and socio-political issues. They use everyday materials and accessible processes to challenge the binaries of ‘high and low art’, often using queer mechanisms such as campness or satire Amy makes drawings, books, DIY film and improvised performance. Amy has made work within institutions as […]
Fiona McGovern is an art historian, writer and curator based in Berlin. Her research, curatorial and educational practice center on (artistic) exhibition history and theory, ethics of curating as well as inter- and transdisciplinary approaches in the arts. Since 2018 she holds a junior professorship in Curatorial Practice and Art Mediation at the University of […]
Patricia Haemmerle, born in Switzerland. PhD (1996), University of Zurich. (Dissertation: ‘Silhouette of Time. Photography and Reality’). 1997 Move with son (14) to New York. General Studies Certificate Program at the International Center of Photography (ICP), NY. Subsequently independent studies in video editing, 16-mm film, figure drawing, printing techniques at ICP, The New School and […]
Richard Luke is a Glasgow-based multi-instrumentalist composer and producer who specialises in minimal piano, orchestral strings, glitches and beats. His music is used in award-winning films (including the Bafta-winning Betty by Will Anderson), TV and games as well as for release on various labels such as Moderna, 1631 Recordings & Highpony. Tracked in a church […]
Ariane Jackson is a Glasgow based visual artist. Working predominantly in painting, her work looks at the translation of sensory experience, using painting in a haptic and material way, and including various mixed media supports that allow a playful exploration of mark and gesture. Image: Ariane Jackson, ‘Windows, too, sickly – KP,’ 2021
Toria Banks is a disabled writer, director and dramaturg. In 2018, she co-founded Hera to make inclusive music theatre by gender-minoritised artists, with Linda Hirst and Simone Ibbett-Brown. In 2021 she made ‘We Ask These Questions of Everybody’ with composer Amble Skuse: a digital opera commissioned by Sound Festival and made remotely by an all-disabled team […]
Laura Cantliff is a dance artist and disability advocate, from Stoke on Trent and currently based in Devon. She studied dance at De Montfort University, and has an MA in Theatre and Dance Performance from Plymouth University. Alongside her dance practice, she is conducting PhD research that focuses on performance training processes for disabled students. As […]
Melanie Hering is a London based drama and creative writing facilitator. She loves making art with people and hearing their stories. Generating frameworks that have the flexibility to be adapted to the individual needs and wishes of the people she works with is central to her practice. She likes building things collaboratively with curiosity, and […]
Fran Quinlan has an intensely embodied process driven drawing practice, with a quiet ritualised character, exploring materiality and the transformative quality of paper; its visual and actual weight. Practical research drives reflective curiosity around the reality of impermanence, fragility and shifting land and seascape, delving into historical and contemporary issues of human migration and displacement. […]
Sacha Airlie (b. 1978, Glasgow) makes paintings, installations and films. She develops these in response to an audio, image making and writing practice that has more recently focused on a number of interior and exterior sites across the Glasgow landscape. Sacha uses this material to explore the spatial dynamics between memory and liveness, to assimilate […]
Kim Simpson is an artist and cultural strategist, curator, facilitator and coach bringing a disability-led approach to the arts sector. In recent years, Kim’s work has been focused on strategic projects and the development of people, processes and practices. She is a Clore Leadership Fellow and an ISPA Global Fellow. Kim currently leads the Remembering […]
Amble is a composer and sound artist who uses disability theory, body sensor technology, spoken word interviews and electronics to create unique sound works. She is interested in the interface between the disabled body and the exterior world, and has explored this through numerous sound walks using her wheelchair. Amble’s work has been performed by […]
Chay Osler is a writer of fiction for children and young people, living in Bedfordshire, England. He holds a BA (Hons) in Theatre Studies with Creative Writing and an MA in Contemporary Popular Theatre, both from Liverpool Hope University. His past work, largely short stories and verse in the fantasy genre, explores difference, environmental degradation, […]
Duncan MacLeod is a composer whose practice utilises both acoustic and electronic forces. His output encompasses concert music, sound installations, music for stage, interdisciplinary collaborations, and participatory arts. His work has been commissioned, commercially recorded, and broadcast internationally by various ensembles and soloists. These include the Arditti Quartet, Jane Chapman, Galvanize Ensemble, Juice vocal trio, […]
Audrey Osler is a writer and scholar, living in the UK but working transnationally. While at Cove Park she will focus on her book Where are you from? No, where are you really from? to be published by Virago Press in 2022. In this she draws on memoir and history to explore the themes of migration, identity […]
I am a South African artist and Fine Art student and having been living in Scotland for about 10 years. My practise centres around extracting imagery from the constant, ceaseless flow of the Internet and other dominant sources of visual culture and re- contextualising them through drawing. I am interested in enticing the viewer to […]
Olga Uzikaeva was born in Vladivostok (Russia) in 1991. She started her dance education in 1998 in a ballet school. From 2000 until 2014 alongside ballet she began competitive Latin American & Ballroom dancing and moved to Serbia in 2011 and to Italy in 2013 to continue her dance career. In 2014-2015 she was back […]
Dani Burlison (she/her) is a writer, teacher, activist and Gen X mom based in Sonoma County, California. She is the creator/editor of an anthology, “All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger and the Female Body” (PM Press, 2019), and the author of a short story collection, “Some Places Worth Leaving” (Tolsun Books, 2020) and “Dendrophilia and […]
Ruth Paton is a set, costume and puppet designer working in opera and with a particular focus on participatory practice and engagement. She is Associate Artist at Blind Summit Theatre and Lead Education Artist for the English National Opera, Garsington Opera and the Royal Opera House. Ruth holds a lectureship in theatre design at the […]
Jana Kühne is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in London where she is studying a BA in Fine Art at the Art Academy London. Jana uses art as a catalyst, substitute, and extension of wilderness experiences, seeking connections to nature and herself. In the light of the climate emergency, she is reviewing her ideas of […]
Manuela Gernedel works in painting, drawing and sculpture. Her art is inspired by the psychedelic appearance of everyday life, confessional writing and her experience of motherhood and care. She is also a songwriter and has released an album with the Scottish label Lost Map records. She studied painting at Glasgow School of Art and at […]
Pamela Carter is a writer for performance, director and dramaturg based in London. She has been making work in theatre, opera, dance, and the visual arts for over twenty years. During her residency at Cove Park she will work on two plays: about the digital promise of ever-lasting life; and about colonialism and interracial relationships set […]
Lydia Beilby is an artist working with 8mm and 16mm photochemical film, archival ephemera and text. Lydia’s practice explores the camera apparatus and projection medium as both a performative process, and an extension of the body, and this way of working centralises hand-made, artisanal, co-operative and environmentally sustainable approaches. With a particular interest in the […]
Laurie Motherwell is a playwright from Glasgow. During his residency at Cove Park he will be working on his play I Very very Love Caramel Bar, written as part of his New Playwright’s Award with Playwright’s Studio, Scotland. This is a personal work that explores how transnational relationships between middle aged men and younger women […]
Nikki Kane is an independent curator, a current PhD candidate at Edinburgh College of Art, and lecturer in New Media Art at UWS. Her AHRC-funded research there centres on the role of festivals in contemporary art careers, and is undertaken in partnership with Glasgow International and Edinburgh Art Festival. In 2019, Nikki worked in the […]
Deborah Jackson is Lecturer in Contemporary Art and Art Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Her research explores the foundations for, and mutual influence of, art, culture and the organisational structures that underpin our cultural institutions. Her research and practice focus on who, or what, the agents of cultural change are and could be. She […]
Beverley Hood’s work interrogates the impact of technology and science on the body, relationships and human experience, through digital media and performance arts projects. She works collaboratively, developing projects involving a range of practitioners, including medics, scientists, writers, technologists, actors, dancers and composers. Although her work utilises technology, it is not techno-centric and is rather, […]
Jane Hunter is a visual artist based in Paisley. She makes work which speaks intimately of our relationship with and experience in the natural world. Considering how humankind seeks control or stability, alongside connection, in the face of the landscape’s ostensibly wild and unpredictable nature. Jane’s work has been shown in galleries across Scotland and […]
Laura Spark is a visual artist applying animation across theatre, installation, live performance and film. Originally from Ayrshire Laura is now based in Liverpool where she works collaboratively with a diverse range of community and theatre companies, as well as across the Uk from Dundee to London. Laura is committed to accessibility and equality in her […]
Janet Bezzant is a visual artist. She has a varied career as an academic and exhibiting artist both in the US and UK and is currently based in Manchester with a studio at rogue. Her work at present uses repetitive mark making / process led drawing and material manipulation towards large scale installation work. The […]
The Flames is a performance company for creative people aged 50 plus, who wish to create high quality, collaborative work. Tricky Hat first established The Flames in Autumn 2016 as part of the Luminate Festival with participants working with professional artists to explore ideas, before devising pieces for live performance. Tricky Hat is a Glasgow-based […]
RL Wilson is an artist living and working in Cumbria. Their research and practice is multidisciplinary, collaborative and socially embedded; focusing on liveness and place – including working with and combining sound, performance, text and the moving image. Crucial to their practice is the facilitation and support of both non-arts people and established practitioners – chiefly in relation to site or […]
SERAFINE1369 is the London based artist and dancer Jamila Johnson-Small. SERAFINE1369 works with dancing as a philosophical undertaking, a political project with ethical psycho-spiritual ramifications for being-in-the-world; dancing as intimate technology. Their research is presented as live performances, installations, video and writing. SERAFINE1369’s practice is relational, cumulative and often collaborative and they work in various […]
Jenna Corker is a contemporary dance artist based in Edinburgh and has been making, teaching and supporting dance work across Scotland for the past three years. Jenna is interested in how we inhabit and connect to different spaces through movement. Jenna has been awarded a #LoveDanceScotland Recovery Bursary presented in partnership by Citymoves Dance Agency, […]
Martin Harman is an artist based in Bristol UK. He creates ceramic sculpture and paintings inspired by Stonehenge. He is also a member of the UNESCO International Academy of Ceramics. The aim for this residency is to use this time to search for inspiration from the landscape to inspire a new series of artworks. Martin […]
Iona Roberts is an artist from Glasgow, where she still lives and has her studio. Location is used as a starting point for all Iona’s work. Through walking, she absorbs and documents places from busy cities to remote landscapes, exploring concepts of identity, time and space. Back in the studio, Iona uses surfaces and memories […]
Yolanda McKean has been based in Edinburgh since 2011, graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 2015. Her work incorporates various drawing, printing and painting techniques and materials. The images are mostly of familiar spaces or objects, reflecting her interest in ecology; working from life, often outside, reacting to the place directly. The work over […]
James Mitchell is a writer and performer of science fiction, magical realism and true stories. He graduated from the Birkbeck Creative Writing MA in 2015, and since then has spent his time trying to smuggle odd tales into places like Vice, GQ, and the vacant fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square. In 2019 he won the […]
Wen-Hsi 文曦 Harman was born in Taipei, Taiwan and is a ceramic artist currently living and working in Bristol. She also is the member of the UNESCO International Academy of Ceramics IAC and NCECA National Council on Education for the ceramic arts. During this residency she will explore Scottish cultural identity through its landscape and […]
Claire-Louise Bennett’s fiction and essays have appeared in a number of publications including The White Review, The Stinging Fly, gorse, Harper’s Magazine, Vogue Italia, Music & Literature, and The New York Times magazine. She is the author of Pond (Fitzcarraldo, 2015), Fish Out of Water (Juxta Press, 2020), and Checkout 19 (Jonathan Cape, 2021.) She lives in Ireland.
Vanessa Holyoak (US, Canada) and Antoine Chesnais (France) are a Los Angeles-based artist duo working across installation, sculpture, photography and language. They construct uncanny, minimalist environments that allude to notions of memory, intimate and ecological loss, and the cognitive overload of the present. While in residency at Cove Park they will be working on gathering […]
Shaun Wilson was born in 1980 and raised in Wigton, Cumbria. He recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at Northumbria University, winning the annual prize for Best Postgraduate Student in Humanities. In 2018 his debut novel, a work-in-progress, made the final of PRH’s Write Now programme. In 2019 it won a TLC Northern Writers’ […]
Lesley Palmer is the is the acting Director and Chief Architect for the Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC), University of Stirling, co-founder of INCH Architecture + Design and the CEO of Iridis Digital Ltd. Lesley is also the Co-Chair of the Scottish Government’s Housing & Dementia Forum, a research member of the Centre for Environments, […]
Carrie Rhys-Davies is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Bristol. For fifteen years Carrie focused on her work as a creative producer, collaborating with a wide range of artists and companies to develop and produce performance and engagement projects through roles with Tobacco Factory Theatres, Theatre Bristol, Bristol Old Vic, Terrestrial, Bristol Festival of Puppetry […]
Alex Marrs (she/her) is an American arts administrator living in Scotland. She is pursuing a MSc in Creative Industries & Cultural Policy at the University of Glasgow while also serving as Interim Managing Director for Brooklyn-based theatre company, Colt Coeur. Most recently, she served as Chief of Staff – a role that encompassed development, special […]
David Addison is an artist and designer based between Glasgow and London. His personal practice is primarily drawing based but extends to wider outcomes such as painting, product design, publications and installations. Graduating from the Fine Art Mlitt degree at Glasgow School of Art, he has exhibited in New York, London and Berlin. Rather than […]
Martine van Kampen is curator at Land Art Flevoland, a small organisation that activates and cares for a collection of nine monumental public land art works in the Dutch province of Flevoland. In 2013, she launched the Land Art Live programme of on site performances and interventions, later resulting in the exhibition Once more, with […]
Laura Baran is an interdisciplinary artist from St. Petersburg, Florida. She studied General Fine Arts and Art History the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland, where she graduated Cum Laude with her BFA in 2016. Since then, Laura has traveled throughout different parts of the USA and Europe, working in multiple gallery […]
Ross Whyte is a Glasgow-based composer, sound artist, and arranger. In 2012 he completed a practice-based PhD in Musical Composition at the University of Aberdeen where his field of research was concerned with impermanence in audio-visual intermedia and headphone-specific composition. His compositional output often includes collaborations with artists of disciplines different from his own, including […]
Born in Glasgow, Janice Affleck studied Architecture then moved to Asia for 15 years, completing a PhD at the University of Hong Kong and took up ceramics while on maternity leave. Returning to Glasgow, she began to explore rediscovered places using clay, language, photography and digital media and link this with her architectural interests into […]
Justine Hounam (b. 1967, London, UK) is a visual artist working primarily in sculpture. Her series of bodily wall hangings capture the physical, psychological, and metaphorical skin. Justine is interested in our relationship with possessions and how they become an extension of the self. Furniture, although functional is chosen due to an aesthetic signalling to […]
Award-winning performance company, Curious Seed, was formed in 2005 by Scottish choreographer, Christine Devaney. Based in Edinburgh, we produce and present compelling, dance theatre work that questions the world we live in; work which touches and moves people, unlocking new ways of experiencing and feeling something different about the world. Committed to exploring new ways […]
Rooted in the singing traditions of Aberdeenshire, Iona Fyfe has quickly become one of Scotland’s most celebrated young folk singers. Having spent her early years learning from local singers of bothy ballads (songs traditionally sung by farm labourers in the northeast region of Scotland), Iona became the youngest ever winner of Scots Singer of the […]
Simon Leleux is a Belgium-based percussionist specialising in doholla, darbuka and other Arab and Middle Eastern percussion instruments and styles. Shaped like a tumbler, the darbuka provided the starting point for Simon’s percussion journey and his interest in many other instruments, including frame drums, tombak, riqq, and drum kits. Simon has focused on studying the doholla (bass darbuka) since 2014 […]
Born in the Iranian capital Tehran, Azin Zahedi began playing flute at the age of seven, and took up the santour (Persian dulcimer) four years later, winning first prize at Iran’s National Festival of Youth Music in 2007. She moved to Germany in 2010 to continue her music education – first at the Folkwang University of Arts […]
Robert Bisha, originally from Shkodra in northern Albania, is a pianist, improviser and composer who plays an array of other instruments including accordion, çifteli (a stringed instrument found in Albania and some surrounding countries), frame drums and guitar. While much of his music is improvisatory, with avant-garde and jazz leanings, Robert is also heavily influenced by traditional […]
Thamires Tannous is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. She hails originally from the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in the central area of Brazil, home to the world’s largest tropical wetland, the Pantanal. Her style blends the musical heritage of her home state with contemporary Brazilian music, as well as occassionally paying subtle homage […]
Liz Hanks is a cellist, composer and collaborator based in Sheffield. While she has worked with an impressive array of high-profile artists across many different genres, she is particularly drawn to folk, Indian classical, and other music traditions. In recent years Liz has performed and collaborated with, among others, Martin Simpson, Jasdeep Singh Degun, and […]
Ahmet Ozan Baysal is a Turkish bağlama (saz) player, composer and performer, specialising in şelpe – an Anatolian bağlama performance technique that dispenses with a plectrum. Having played the instrument from a very early age, much of his music is a synthesis of traditional bağlama şelpe performance practices and harmonic practices in tonal and jazz music. Ozan has performed […]
We are a small architecture & design practice founded in 2018 by Andrea Marini & Liam O’Shea. We set up off the back of a few commissions that gave us just about enough security to leave our jobs. We’ve been fortunate to have a steady stream of work since – all of it through word […]
Nicolette Macleod is a composer, singer and songwriter based in Glasgow. With chest beaten rhythms, hypnotic vocal looping and acoustic instruments Nicolette arranges songs both old and new. Interwoven with urban and wild landscapes, her songs range from fragile laments to intense textural journeys. Nicolette will be spending her time at Cove Park re imaging […]
Nabihah Iqbal is a musician, producer, DJ and broadcaster from London. Her debut album, ‘Weighing of the Heart’, was released via Ninja Tune in December 2017 and has since garnered huge critical acclaim. She is currently an artist-in-residence at London’s iconic cultural institution, Somerset House, where she is writing and recording her second album. Aside from working on her own […]
Tessa Ratuszynska is an artist, researcher and producer based between Glasgow and Bristol, making work at the intersection of Documentary, Virtual Reality, Installation and Performance. They are currently completing a practice based PhD at the University of West Scotland, exploring queer identity and the performance of gender through VR non fiction. This residency allows Tessa […]
Anne is a Scottish contemporary visual artist and geographer, based in Cumbria. Her practice is often conceptual with significant narrative and process behind it, frequently rooted in wild landscapes. She is influenced by our physical and metaphorical journeys and human connections with our environment. Place, space and identity are recurring themes, and the darker elements […]
Morag Smith lives in Paisley. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in ezines, magazines and anthologies, including Ink, Sweat and Tears, Pushing Out the Boat (Apr 2021), Poetry Ireland Review and Gutter. She was recently shortlisted and commended for the Scottish Book Trust’s New Writers Awards 2021, is the winner of 2021 Paisley Book Festival/Janet […]
Dutch writer Gregor Verwijmeren studied Language and Culture Studies at Utrecht University and guitar at the conservatory in the same town. He published fiction in – among others – De Gidsand Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. In 2018 De vorm van geluid (The shape of sound) was published by Van Oorschot, the oldest surviving […]
Henry Coleman’s work operates at the borders of designed experience, bumping up against architecture, typography, signage and the decorative; reframing and making obvious the established edges of the aesthetic conditions that shape and reflect the societies, spaces and images that we move through. Drawing down on the historical material of social and visual momentum to […]
Marcus Jack (he/him) is a curator and art historian based in Glasgow and working predominantly with the moving image. He is currently completing an AHRC-funded PhD at The Glasgow School of Art (2018–2022) investigating the histories of artists’ moving image in Scotland and is the editor of DOWSER (2020–2022), a new quarterly publication series on the same field. His writing has been published […]
Born in Dublin in 1966, I describe myself as a visual artist and teacher. I can’t recall a time when I haven’t written, sketched, scrawled, painted, printed, photographed or sculpted. The creative process is integral to my soul. A self-employed artist, I work mostly on private commission and until July 2021, combined this with a […]
Amna Saleem is a Scottish Pakistani writer with proud working class roots and a background in journalism. During the 2020 Coronavirus lockdown, she accidentally neglected her debut YA (young adult) novel to focus on TV projects, which are now in various stages of development. Amna is delighted to be spending time at Cove Park where she […]
Laurence Estanove is a French-born non-fiction writer and crafter/designer based in Glasgow. As a writer, she’s interested in the influence of music on people’s attachment to a particular place; her current project explores the attractiveness of Glasgow’s independent music scene since the early 1980s. Designed as an oral history, the book draws from original interviews […]
Michael Donkor studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, undertook a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway and now teaches English Literature at St Paul’s Girls’ School in London. The Observer named him as one of 2018’s best debut authors for his first novel Hold (4th Estate) and in 2019, he was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize […]
Felicity Barrow is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily across performance, installation, drawing, painting and writing. Her practice currently explores experiences of self, other and environment; rituals of hope and healing; and belief in planes of existence that lie beyond the bounds of our general perception. She trained in fine art (BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, 2014) […]
Roy Claire Potter works between performance and experimental writing to think through the production of subtext in speaker-listener interactions, which they extended to readerly encounters with a page. The operation of interpersonal violence is a prevalent theme within their work, as are the motifs of domestic sound, bodily comportment, spatial and group dynamics. Potter’s live […]
Sebastian Thomas is a visual artist based in Reading whose practice spans sculpture, printmaking, installation, painting & film, central to which are the processes of collage & assemblage. Thomas work is concerned with the fevered relationship between the fiction consumed by the mind and the corporeal landscape and is particularly interested in how it creates […]
Katrina Palmer locates sculpture in writing, situating bodies and objects between physical presence and their replacement with words. Fragmented narratives navigate unstable landscapes and experiences of being non-identical with, or absent from, the social space. Alongside the writing, the work includes found sites, found objects, audio recordings, performance and appropriated signs. Among her publications and […]
Verity-Jane Keefe is a visual artist working predominantly in the public realm to explore the complex relationship between people and place. She is interested in the role and potential of the artist within urban regeneration, working with moving image, text, object and installation to explore possible taxonomies of everyday life. She has a long-term relationship with Barking and Dagenham, making […]
Julie Kennedy writes poetry and fiction and teaches part-time in a secondary school. During her short time at Cove Park, she will work on a poetry sequence around the themes of memory, class, immigration and coastlines. Julie is open-minded as to where her residency might take her: Having spent time at Cove Park before she […]
Simon is a writer, a printmaker and a multi-award-winning producer of children’s animation, including ‘Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids’ and ‘Wolves, Witches & Giants’. His printmaking practice dates back to his time at the Cambridge School of Art, and later, St Martin’s School of Art. He went on to study animation at West Surrey College […]
Sara Bor is a visual artist. The dominant theme of her practice is responding to natural environments. Nature and landscape have been part of her being since a childhood spent in the Peak District. The narrative investigates a correlation with the geography of these landscapes and how human interventions have shaped the terrain. Eroded moorlands, […]
Louise Mclachlan is an artist based in Edinburgh working predominantly with photography. Mclachlan advocates for disability rights and representation particularly within the arts and education. In 2019 she launched Scope Photography – a workshop and community aimed at teaching individuals facing health related barriers the power in their perspective. Mclachlan’s own work explores the reclamation of self, sight […]
Laura Castagnini is a curator and writer interested in the histories of feminism and their current articulations, especially as they intersect with the politics of sexuality and race, and their expression in modern and contemporary art. She was (until March 2021) Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary British Art, at Tate, where she curated monographic displays […]
Audrey Osler is a writer and scholar, living in the UK but working transnationally. While at Cove Park she will focus on her book Where are you from? No, where are you really from? to be published by Virago Press in 2022. In this she draws on memoir and history to explore the themes of […]
Sarah is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Sociology at City, University of London. Her research areas include mobilities, care, canonicity, and knowledge production. Sarah’s current project, ‘Ambivalence, Power and the Cosmopolitan Intellectual’ examines practices and representations of knowledge and expertise with particular relation to cultural capital, aesthetics, and multilingualism. Sarah completed her […]
Beth Dynowski is based in Glasgow. She makes sculpture, installations, performances, projects, poetry and texts. Her work pays attention to the poetic and political potential of using materials and language to transform political, ethical and social imaginaries. She was recently shortlisted for The White Review Poet’s Prize and her work has been shared in DIY […]
Lorna Ough currently lives and works in Glasgow. She has a BA (hons) from The University of Brighton in Fine Art: Critical Practice and studied on part of the the MLitt Art Writing programme at The Glasgow School of Art. Her practice has included performance and curating – and sometimes a combination of the two […]
An interactive system constructs a world. It defines not only what you experience but what actions you can take and what consequences ensue. Tim Murray-Browne is an artist and coder working with sound, interactive technology and the moving body. In his work, Tim explores how these experiences affect us at an unconscious level – our […]
Bold, graphic prints combined with bright colours transformed into beautifully crafted products are at the core of Laura Spring. With a passion for colour, print, pattern and process, Laura creates a covetable collection of functional homewares and accessories. Designs are transformed through print and weave into cushions, fabrics, rugs, bags and more, much of which […]
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 shows, Be Honourable!, The Future is Another Place, and Romance and Adventure were nominated for the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award. She has toured comedy festivals around […]
Matt Johnston is a visual practitioner, researcher and educator in the UK. For the past decade he has been organising and facilitating photographic readers around the world in an initiative called The Photobook Club which has over 50 branches of connected communities from Aukland to Montevideo. As both a product of this work and an instigator for […]
Nima Séne is an artist in collaboration currently based in Glasgow & Berlin. Nima is inviting aida séne as well as other artists (remotely) on residency. At Cove Park they will finally be delving into the darkmatters R&D project they had planned to do last year. Here they will write personalised individual invites to artists […]
Bobbi Cameron is an artist based in Glasgow. She works predominantly across sound, text, performance and moving image. Cameron graduated from the MFA programme at Glasgow School of Art in 2019. Her work uses acts of queering, contemporary witchcraft and autobiography to dismantle and disrupt normative confinements of space, place and (both constructed and bodily) […]
Feelings are the inspiration for Julie Barnes’ narrative paintings. She explores the power of wonderment and hope, and offers the viewer an opportunity for stillness and an awareness of the threads that connect us. Sometimes, though not often, the shape for a painting comes to her before she starts work, but mostly the colours and […]
Cherry Smyth is an Irish writer, living in London. Her first two poetry collections, When the Lights Go Up, 2001 and One Wanted Thing, 2006 were published by Lagan Press. Her third collection Test, Orange, 2012, was published by Pindrop Press and her debut novel, Hold Still (Holland Park Press) appeared in 2013. Famished (Pindrop […]
Peter lives near Moniaive in Dumfriesshire. He led Moniaive’s successful bid for a Creative Place Award in 2015 and started writing poetry in 2016 in the Moniaive Poetry Workshop, set-up within the Award programme. Peter won the Fresh Voice Award at the 2020 Wigtown Book Festival Poetry Prize, and his poems have been published in […]
Ariane Jackson is a Glasgow based visual artist working primarily in painting. Her work processes sensory experience and memory in a haptic and material way, often including mixed media supports that allow a playful exploration of mark and gesture. Jackson is a graduate of the Glasgow Shcool of Art and has exhibited throughout Scotland and […]
Caitlin Skinner is director with new writing theatre company Pearlfisher, Director of award-winning theatre company Jordan & Skinner and Associate Director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre. She is former Artistic Director of acclaimed new writing pub theatre company Village Pub Theatre. Recent credits include Alone and Alone Part II by Janey Godley (National Theatre of Scotland) […]
Dawn Youll’s ceramic practice is informed by the exploration of a personal landscape and the narratives that this can evoke. Her work is underpinned by a fascination with the routine of daily life, and over time this has been revised and refined so that the urban environment, the studio, the domestic setting and the making […]
Ben Sanderson (Coventry, UK, 1986) lives and works in Cornwall. He holds a BFA from University College Falmouth, and in 2017 took part in Syllabus III, a roaming study program partnered with Wysing Arts Centre, Studio Voltaire, Eastside Projects, Iniva, New Contemporaries, S1 Artspace, and Spike Island. Selected exhibitions include: Chicken Nuggets, Pool School Gallery, […]
Jane Rogoyska is the acclaimed author of Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa. Trained as a filmmaker, she has a particular interest in the turbulent period from the 1930s to the Cold War in Europe. Her research into the 1940 Katyń Massacre led to her first novel, Kozłowski (long-listed for the Desmond Elliot Prize) and Still Here: A […]
Employing collage, print, wordplay and pattern, Rowan Paton’s work is characterised by the development of imagined visual space. Her work explores themes of environmental change, mental health and otherness. Landscape, and in particular the mountain, provide a reference through which to examine these themes.
Anna Olson is a ceramicist based in Crieff. She is highly experimental in her work, and breaks many aspects of traditional ceramic making. Her residency at Cove Park coincides with a shift in her creative, ceramic work. She is looking to create work on location at geologically significant sites and to develop collections based on these […]
This winter we are again hosting artists from across the UK and overseas for residencies of 1-2 weeks. During the winter we charge a reduced rate for independently-funded residencies, allowing more artists to benefit from the facilities Cove Park provides. This year’s participating artists are: Agata Zalewska, Scenographer and Playwright Hazel Atkinson, Writer Jamie George, […]
Judith van den Boom is a designer and lecturer. She is currently working on a practice-based PhD and during this residency she will undertake material experiments connected to her research. In her role as a lecturer, Judith has worked with institutes in Canada, China, Germany, the UK and the USA. She received her Masters at […]
Kim Simpson is a producer, curator, facilitator and coach based in Glasgow. Her producing company Shift works across the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland and worldwide. Recent projects have included strategic interventions with Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Scottish Government, presenting a Made in Scotland Festival in Brussels in 2019, as well as […]
B. D. Owens is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Shandon, on the Gare Loch. In 2017, he graduated from the Art, Society & Publics MFA Programme at DJCAD, University of Dundee. Previously, he studied at Concordia University, in Montreal, gaining a BFA in Sculpture. In 2017, he won the Fife Fine Arts Society Prize to […]
Adele Patrick has been developing innovative cultural projects rooted in equalities and in academic research and community learning and teaching for over 25 years. Adele co-founded Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) in 1991 and is currently GWL’s Lifelong Learning and Creative Development Manager. She has had a key leadership role in GWL which has grown from […]
Elizabeth Barrett’s poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She is the author of three collections: Walking on Tiptoe (Staple First Editions, 1998; re-issued by Bluechrome Press, 2007), The Bat Detector (Wrecking Ball Press, 2005) and A Dart of Green and Blue (Arc Publications, 2010). Elizabeth has been the recipient of various prizes […]
Lesley Wilson is Associate Artist at Perth Theatre and an award-winning playwright who lives in Perthshire. Her work has been read and performed at Perth Theatre, The Traverse, The Tron, Birnam Arts and Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Lesley was mentored in 2012 by Playwrights’ Studio Scotland and her writing has been shortlisted for The Kenneth Branagh […]
Jane is a writer of fiction based in north Perthshire. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Bridport prize and commended in The White Review & Manchester Fiction prize; others have been published in New Writing Scotland and Mslexia. She is currently working on her novel in-progress ‘Cutting the Roses’. The manuscript has been […]
Cove Park is delighted to host a team from BBC Scotland, who are using the site to record an off-beat thriller about an off-grid community. Actors: Shauna Macdonald, Anita Vettesse, Tori Burgess and Benny Young. Writer: Ben Lewis Sound-designer: Danny Krass Director: Kirsty Williams Content Assistant: Rosalind Gibson. The team will embed themselves on the […]
This winter we are again hosting artists from across the UK and overseas for residencies of 1 – 3 weeks. During the winter we charge a reduced rate for independently-funded residencies, allowing more artists to benefit from the facilities Cove Park provides. This year’s participating artists are: Al White, Visual Artist Allyson Keehan, Visual Artist & […]
Cove Park is pleased to host a Cryptic Residency this autmnn for the Mexican artist Yair López. Yair Lopez studied Geophysics, Communications and Multimedia Engineering and uses his scientific background to combine technological errors and seismic data with poetry to create audio-visual works. Yair has exhibited in Mexico, Spain, Japan, USA, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Portugal, Holland, Italy, […]
Visiting Cove Park for the first time, Aberdeen Writers’ Studio is a group of emerging and established writers with current or historical links to the North-East. The group meets regularly in Aberdeen to share work and to encourage and support one another in their writing. The participating writers are: Rachelle Atalla is a writer based […]
Space/Time is a creative retreat for experienced artists from all disciplines that asks the question “How does an artist keep developing?” It aims to refresh participants through a stimulating examination of creativity. During the residency, we will explore how creativity can be nourished and how artists can continue to challenge themselves to develop. The residency combines facilitated dialogue […]
high // flyers is a 9-month bespoke programme, delivered by Emergents, of individual support for established designer makers living and working in the Highlands & Islands or Moray who are ambitious and keen to grow their businesses. The final stage of the programme is a group creative residency at Cove Park in October 2017, where the High Flyers […]
BBC Writersroom Scotland returns to Cove Park this year, bringing a group of writers to focus on ideas and development for radio and children’s CBBC.
Josh Armstrong was born in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to Scotland in 2006. He is an interdisciplinary Director, characterised by bold design, visual composition and artistic collaboration. Josh studied Experimental Theater at New York University and Contemporary Performance Practice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He has worked with Cryptic since 2009, becoming the first […]
Stuart Macpherson is a freelance bassist and composer based in rural Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. A keen collaborator, Stuart enjoys working with artists from different disciplines, drawing on his experience within the workshop environment as well as his skills as an improviser to bring about innovative responses to creative questions. He has been involved in […]
Robbie Thomson is a Glasgow-based artist and theatre maker who works with kinetic sculpture, music, lighting design and technology. His latest work, XFRMR (developed from Ecstatic Arc presented at the Edinburgh Festival at Summerhall in 2013), had recent performances including Sonica, London; EXIT Festival at Maison des Arts et de la Culture de Créteil, Paris; […]
Based in Glasgow, Trudat Sound & Light is Charlie Knox and Euan McKenzie. Their work explores themes of perspective and the relative nature of detail and draws inspiration from sculptural, natural and architectural sources as well as from contemporary club culture and various strains of electronic and electroacoustic music. Through the construction of immersive multichannel audio-visual […]
Kathy Hinde’s work grows from a partnership between nature and technology expressed through audio-visual installations and performances that combine sound, sculpture, image and light. Drawing on inspiration from behaviours and phenomena found in the natural world, she creates work that is generative and can be different each time it is experienced. Kathy frequently works in […]
Eduardo VC was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico in 1986 and followed his passion for music initially through private piano lessons. After graduating with a BA Music (Cum Laude) from Universidad de las Americas, Puebla (2009), he travelled to the UK to continue his studies. He completed his MA in Composition for Film & TV […]
Uncletwis is a young Indonesian artist, whose work is focussed on using low technology and analogue systems characterised by the imagery of a red rambutan. He lives and works in Surabaya, Indonesia, a city that is well-known for its industry, trading history and technology. His work involves the playful modification, deconstruction and re-construction of objects. […]
Gail Priest is a sound artist from Sydney, Australia making experimental sound and electronic music that explores the interaction of the figurative and the abstract, the machinic and the organic, the sensual and the brutal. Her practice encompasses performance, recording, sound design for dance and theatre, installation, curation and writing. She has performed and exhibited nationally […]
Rob Bentall (b. 1989) is a sonic artist based in the UK. His main output thus far has been works for multi-channel sound. He is interested in aspects of genre hybridity in electronic music, remix culture, surround-sound techniques and improvisation. Bentall gained a MusB (Hons.) from the University of Manchester, graduating in 2010 with the […]
Heather Lander graduated from the MFA in 2015 with a distinction (1st class) and the Bram Stoker Medal awarded by the Director of the Art School to one graduating artist. During 2016 she showed video installations with Cryptic Nights at the CCA, Glasgow International with Simon Harlow at The Briggait, and as an invited artist […]
Since 1987, Toonspeak has provided free, high quality drama and theatre activities for young people aged 11-25 living in Glasgow. They work with professional artists who challenge and inspire young people to create their own performances and manage their own projects – all of Toonspeak’s work is young people led and they have 6 places for young people on their voluntary […]
Annie Crabtree is based in Glasgow. Having studied Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art, and New Genres and Cultural Geography at San Francisco Art Institute, she now works for public arts organisation NVA, is co-producer of public art projection project Picture Window, and is studying for a Masters of Research in Human Geography at […]
Josh Armstrong was born in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to Scotland in 2006. He is an interdisciplinary artist and his work is characterised by bold design, visual composition and artistic collaboration. Armstrong has worked with Cryptic since 2009, becoming the first Cryptic Associate Director in 2011. Cryptic Commissions include: The Little Match Girl Passion (2011), […]
Robbie Thomson is a Glasgow based artist and theatre maker with interests in kinetic sculpture, music, lighting design and technology. Recent works include: The New Alps – an installation commissioned for Sonica 2015, inspired by post-industrial landscapes and XFRMR (2015) – an AV performance for musical Tesla coil and synths. In 2011 Thomson was a […]
Tom Weightman has a background in software development as well as photography. He developed websites for several years, before studying Software Engineering at Durham University, where he specialised in mobile apps. From 2012 to 2015 he worked at Touchpress, where he contributed to the development of The Orchestra and Disney Animated, and was lead engineer […]
Alan Martyn is one half of Wintour’s Leap, a small collective focused on creating large-scale experiences. Their work aims to make fundamental concepts and principles in the world around us intuitive. In doing so they attempt to augment their audience’s perception of things that might otherwise be unnoticed. Together they share backgrounds in music composition […]
Sarah Maine is a writer whose first novel Bhalla Strand was published by Freight Books, Glasgow in 2014 and is being re-launched by Freight in May 2016 as The House between Tides (and under the same title by Atria in North America, Allen and Unwin in Australia). Sarah now lives in York but grew up […]
Ellis O’Connor is a visual artist from Scotland working in drawing, painting and printmaking. She uses this visual language to challenge assumptions about the natural environment, to reinterpret the grandeur of natural land forms, and to re-present this visual information laden with power. Ellis has been living and working in the far North of Iceland […]
Timothy Cooper is a composer and performer of electroacoustic music. He currently lectures in music technology and sound recording at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and creative music technology at Edinburgh College. He also works with Edit-Point, Scotland’s only regularly performing group dedicated to electroacoustic music. Recent projects include composing works with poet Samuel Tongue, […]
Mark Lyken (1973) is an artist, composer and filmmaker based in rural Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. He creates musical and sound pieces, film, paintings and installations. Lyken’s work is inspired by the relationship between nature, culture and technology. He is interested in revealing the musicality of the environment and capturing beauty in the ordinary. Recent […]
Heather Lander was born in Portland, Maine, US, and came to Glasgow in 1997 to study drawing and painting at the GSA. After receiving her BA (Hons) she remained in Glasgow and helped to co-found an independent artist studio & exhibition and music venue, the Chateau. During this time period she was mainly painting. It […]
Adura Onashile is of Nigerian descent, working within theatre and physical theatre. She began developing her own practice in 2011 with a 15-month residency on the Shared Territories programme at the Edinburgh Mela exploring the concepts of Dreamtime, the Songlines and Walkabout from indigenous Australian culture. In 2012/13 with an EMERGE bursary from the National […]
Over a period of 30+ years, Nick Stewart has been the recipient of numerous awards, residencies and commissions including from the Canada Council, the EU, the British Council, the British Film Institute and the Royal Festival Hall in London. He has exhibited in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Ireland, Canada, USA, India and Vietnam. […]
Elinor Gallant is Exhibitions Manager at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, where she develops and presents a variety of exhibitions that engage and inspire audiences in the natural world through a variety of art forms. She is at Cove Park working on two new exhibitions to be presented next year: One will introduce visitors to […]
Rebecca Spooner is a creative project manager and programmer based in Abergavenny and directs PEAK, an initiative that develops opportunities for contemporary art in the rural Black Mountains and Welsh Borders. During a ten-day residency at Cove Park, supported by the Arts Council of Wales, Rebecca will research and develop a cultural map of the […]
Cathy Lane is a composer. sound artist and academic. Her work uses spoken word, field recordings and archive material to explore aspects of our listening relationship with each other and the multiverse. She is currently focused on how sound relates to the past, our histories, environment and our collective and individual memories from a feminist perspective. Cathy is Professor of Sound Arts […]
Michael Windle is an artist who works across media. His current focus surrounds a lifelong obsession with the Bass Rock in East Lothian, with themes tipping into geology, philosophy and apostasy. The project is partly in collaboration with ecology writer Ewan Davidson, and the residency is funded by Edinburgh College of Art.
Edinburgh-based writer Maria Fusco returns to Cove Part to develop the Artangel Open Commission awarded to her in 2014. This work involves a site specific performance and work for BBC Radio 4 shaped by a cavernous space excavated inside a mountain on Scotland’s west coast.
During March 2015, Cove Park will host three residencies organised by Cryptic, the Glasgow-based internationally renowned producing art house. The Cryptic Associates taking part in this programme are: performing artist Josh Armstrong, visual artist Robbie Thomson and artist and filmmaker Sven Werner. Cryptic Associates was established in 2011 to nurture and develop the next generation […]
In 2014 Maria Fusco was awarded a prestigious Artangel Open Commission. This commission will allow the Edinburgh-based writer to realise a new site specific performance and work for radio, shaped by a cavernous space excavated inside a mountain near the appropriately named Loch Awe in Argyll and Bute. Maria will use this residency at Cove […]
Earlier this year, Maria Fusco was awarded a prestigious Artangel Open Commission. This commission will allow the Edinburgh-based writer to realise a new site specific performance and work for radio, shaped by a cavernous space excavated inside a mountain near the appropriately named Loch Awe in Argyll and Bute. Maria will use this residency at […]
We are pleased to welcome artist and choreographer Janice Parker back to Cove Park this autumn with collaborator Jo Verrent. Janice and Jo collaborated recently with 2014 resident Luke Pell on the installation ‘Take Me To Bed’, presented at The Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall, London, in September 2014. This residency at Cove Park will […]
In this challenging, transformative masterclass poets learn how to access their own authentic voice when speaking their poems. The week comprises workshops in voice development designed for poets by Kristin Linklater, the world renowned voice coach to leading actors including Donald Sutherland and Sigourney Weaver. You can find out more about Kristin’s method on her website. […]
Edinburgh-based visual artist Rory Middleton returns to Cove Park for a second residency. During this time he will be developing his site-specific installation ‘The View‘, produced by CRYPTIC. The work will be presented at Cove Park on 29 and 30 March.
The National Theatre of Scotland will work at Cove Park for one month. During this time the focus will be on the development of new scripts and future productions. This programme is supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. The participating artists are: Alan Bissett, Greg Burke, Catriona Lexy Campbell, Claire Cunningham, Minty Donald, Joe Douglas, […]
This one week residency will allow visual artist Alison Turnbull and writer Phillip Hoare the time to research and develop a new collaborative publication. This project was initiated during Alison’s two-month residency at Cove Park earlier this year and inspired by a visit the artist made to the Rosneath peninsula’s Linn Botanic Gardens. Phillip is an internationally […]
New York-based visual artist Brody Condon will be at Cove Park for six weeks to begin research on a new collaboration with Scotland-based visual artist Christine Borland. Condon’s work is concerned with the interaction between actual and virtual digital experience. Borland’s artworks touch on the territories of ethics and medical humanities. Together, they are collaborating […]
In association with Cryptic Nights, Cove Park has created a two-week residency for the Scottish visual artist Rory Middleton. This residency will enable the artist to develop ‘The View’, a work devised and presented during a residency at The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, in 2010. Responding to the specific context of Cove Park, ‘The View’ […]
Jo McGonigal is an artist and Fine Art lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. McGonigal’s Ph.D. is in painting as a post-medium practice and its intersection with architecture. McGonigal has gallery representation with Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow, co-curator of Real Painting: Castlefield Gallery; […]