Residencies
Harriina Räinä
Harriina Räinä is a research-oriented visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Her work explores themes such as corporeality, observation dynamics, and human-animal relationships. She is interested in the connections between artists, locations, materials, and tools. Harriina holds a master’s degree in fine arts from the University of the Arts Helsinki (2019). Her recent projects include […]
Yi-An Hsieh
Yi-An Hsieh was born in Lukang, Taiwan, in 1992. She holds a Master’s degree in Chinese Literature from National Taiwan University and is a member of the Taipei Legend Studio, which is dedicated to researching and promoting local legends of monsters and mysterious happenings. Yi-An Hsieh is the author of the non-fiction titles Taiwanese School […]
Josefin Vargö
Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Josefin Vargö is a food artist, designer, and independent curator whose work explores the intersections of food, time, and craft. Using food as both material and medium, she creates sensory and performative installations that provoke reflection on societal structures, norms, and value systems. Through meals and shared experiences, she investigates how […]
Trần Uy Đức
Trần Uy Đức is a self-taught musician based in Hanoi. Active since 2018, his work spans music, videos and social projects, and usually emerges from the interplay of communal exchange and self-detachment. His 2023 self-titled compilation, released on the dispari label by DJ Phuong-Dan, wrapped some of his most distinctive deconstructed club narratives to date. […]
Vũ Hà Anh
Vũ Hà Anh’s practice is characterised by its fluidity and adaptability, evolving in tandem with her expanding worldview, centred by the key principles of love-freedom-liberation. Currently residing in Saigon, Ha Anh’s work is undergoing a transformation as she delves into the themes of sexuality and the lives of women in marginalised and concealed corners of […]
Sholto Dobie
Sholto Dobie was born in Edinburgh and lives in Vilnius. He performs with self-constructed wind instruments, using a frankenstein-like set up which has evolved over many years. An air pump is attached to a series of reeded and metal pipes from various sources – organs, bagpipes and khene – which are brought to life by […]
Inge Thomson
Inge Thomson is a musical force like no other. Having grown up in the UK’s most remote island community – Fair Isle, Shetland – Inge has been creating music for over 20 years as a composer, producer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist and performer. Although best known as a long term collaborator with The Karine Polwart Trio, in […]
Melanie Stidolph
Melanie Stidolph has been selected for the first Creative Kernow Associate residency. Melanie will spend two weeks at Cove Park in March 2025, a period which marks the beginning of a year-long sabbatical to focus on her practice. Melanie’s work is rooted in photography, exploring her relationship to grief and longing in relation to childlessness. Her photos pay attention […]
Ayo Akingbade
This new residency is offered in partnership with the Glasgow-based visual arts organisation The Common Guild and is made possible with support from Mārama Consulting. Ayo Akingbade is an artist, writer and director. She works predominantly with film and installation to address themes of power, urbanism and stance. Much of Akingbade’s work has documented experiences […]
Haris Yuliyanto
The Bali-Glasgow Filmmaker Exchange is a residency program for Indonesian and Scottish filmmakers that is made possible with the support of Connections Through Culture (CTC), a grant scheme run by the British Council in the UK and East Asia to foster international collaborations through arts and culture. This program fosters creative dialogue around environmental sustainability, […]
Alaya Ang
Alaya Ang is a visual artist whose practice is grounded in material exploration, sound, and collective participation, with a focus on maritime trade, migration, and the intersections of colonial histories and environmental concerns. At the core of their work is storytelling through materials, uncovering how materials carry histories and connect to personal and collective narratives. […]
Mariam Syed
Mariam Syed is a textile designer, weaver and digital/craft researcher committed to developing an advanced practice that combines craft with digital. Mariam’s tacit knowledge and craft experience in both Pakistan and Scotland empowers her to take charge of the ever advancing technologies to research and reinterpret traditional techniques and weave structures. She designs and weaves […]
Moira Nilsson
Moira Nilsson is a textile artist based in Sweden. She explores in detail fibres, structures, and surfaces to find both the tension and the ‘merge’ between different techniques and materials, such as wool, linen, weave and felt. She challenges traditional techniques and conventional ways of using materials to find their hidden possibilities. Nilsson often creates […]
Kirsty Russell
Kirsty Russell is an artist living in Aberdeen. Her work is concerned with support, and structures that underpin and maintain. With reference to the women in her family who work in positions of care, she often returns to the physical and emotional weight of the work that they do and to the repetitive nature of […]
Sammy Lopez
Sammy Lopez (he/him) is a Tony Award-winning theatre producer and co-founder of P3 Productions, a company dedicated to building productions from the ground up with artists to support new voices and communities. P3 recently produced HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO and JOB on Broadway, with the upcoming Broadway-bound musical GUN & POWDER in development. His […]
Erica Rotstein
Erica Rotstein is a Tony Award-winning theatre producer, talent manager, and educator. Her work is driven by a passion for music, and a desire to nurture creative collaborations built on transparency and mutual respect. Erica is a co-founder of The Business of Broadway, offering classes designed to democratize knowledge and examine the theatrical business model. […]
Rachel Sussman
Rachel Sussman is a Tony Award-winning creative producer, educator, and entrepreneur who believes deeply in elevating human stories that challenge existing systems and create more space for inquiry, empathy, and action. She is a co-founder of The Business of Broadway and a partner at Soto Productions, overseeing all theatrical development. Broadway producing credits: Suffs (Outer […]
Heather Shields
Heather Shields is a Tony-nominated producer and general manager. She received undergraduate degrees at the University of Richmond and later graduated from Columbia University with her Masters in Arts Administration. Her Broadway producing credits include Cabaret with Eddie Redmayne, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Tony nomination), A Christmas Carol (record breaking 5 out of […]
Kate Taylor
Kate Taylor is the recipient of the fully funded bursary for an independent or freelance creative producer based in Scotland. Kate Taylor is an award-winning, independent producer of music-led theatre projects. She is producer of A Giant on the Bridge (Made in Scotland Showcase 2024). She is co-producer of A Mother’s Song, a new folk […]
Nassy Konan
Nassy is an independent Creative Producer based in Kings Heath, Birmingham, with roots in London. She works across Live Art, Dance, Theatre, and Outdoor Arts, focusing on delivering impactful and collaborative projects for diverse audiences. Nassy’s expertise includes producing, programming, artist development, and fostering international exchanges. Her recent work spans mid-scale touring productions, festivals, and […]
Nicola Lawton
Nicola Lawton (she/her) is a Scotland-based producer working across artform with a specialism in circus. From managing festival stages to intimate theatre performances and small to mid-scale touring her work covers an array of activity over the past decade. She is now a company director at Scissor Kick Ltd a Glasgow based production company which […]
Cally Shine
Cally Shine is a theatre producer from Seattle, WA, based in Dublin. She holds a BA in Theatre and a Minor in Irish Studies from the University of Montana and a Graduate Diploma in Cultural Policy and Arts Management from University College Dublin. Her producing credits include: for Fishamble: Outrage by Deirdre Kinahan (World Premier […]
Robyn Cabaret
Robyn Cabaret is a dynamic producer and curator dedicated to fostering innovation and collaboration in the arts. As Producer at ArtHouse Jersey, she champions interdisciplinary projects spanning theatre, dance, music, and beyond, exploring liveness in diverse contexts. Her work supports local and international artists in developing groundbreaking projects that resonate with Jersey’s community while reaching […]
Maryann Wright
Maryann Wright is a London-based and Australian-born theatre producer of musicals and plays, with a particular passion for new musical development and dramaturgy. Her background as an arts journalist and theatre publicist inform her passion for the commercial theatre sector and its ability to tell the underrepresented stories of our generation. Maryann is particularly passionate […]
Jasmyn Fisher-Ryner
Jasmyn Fisher-Ryner is a two-time Olivier nominated producer. She is an independent Theatre and Digital Producer, and Events and Outreach Consultant from East London. She is the company director for her production company JFR Productions Ltd. She worked as a producer for the Royal Court Theatre and was nominated for the Best Producer Award at […]
Rafia Hussain
Rafia Hussain is a socially engaged theatre producer with a particular focus on racialised artists and producers. She is currently developing a number of new shows with exciting Black and Brown artists from across Britain. Previous work includes projects with Fifth Word, One Tenth Human and Derby Theatre. This year she co-authored ‘Producing Producers’ – […]
Munya Redman-Bayasi
Munya Redman-Bayasi is the Senior Programmer at Capital Theatres, leading on the programming for two of Edinburgh’s iconic venues, the Festival Theatre and the King’s Theatre. She collaborates with producers across the UK to bring the biggest productions to Edinburgh, including the UK tours of Hamilton, War Horse, and Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. Munya is […]
Eilidh Morton
Eilidh Morton is an emerging actor and performer based in Scotland. She has 14 years of dance training specialising in ballet and jazz, with experience in Acro, Tap, and Musical Theatre. Eilidh’s background in music and music theory includes flute, violin, piano, and voice and has 3 years of experience performing with her school choir. […]
Cat Auburn
Cat Auburn is an artist from Aotearoa New Zealand based in Argyll. Her art practice (sculpture, textile, film, event, and writing) focuses on how cultural heritage is constructed, reinforced, and strategically employed. Artistic ‘making’ is how she explores complex interrelational dynamics between ‘self’ and ‘culture’, local and global, policymaking and those subject to policy. The […]
Live Performance Bazaar
‘We, the Landscape Research & Residency Project’, is a new programme from Live Performance Bazaar (Prague, Czech Republic). It brings together artists, arts managers, producers, and scientists with the aim of inspiring creativity and innovation to protect and restore nature, and to connect artistic and scientific communities through conversations across Central Europe and beyond. This […]
Violaine Barrois
Cove Park’s fourth residency through the partnership programme Magnetic Residencies has been awarded to the Marseille-based artist Violaine Barrois. Violaine Barrois’ practice explores the relationship between humans and nature. Educated at the École Supérieure de Design de Marseille (ESDM), and at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Barrois combines her academic background and experiences from […]
Oleksandra Novatska
Oleksandra Novatska is an artist and curator from Lviv, Ukraine, now living in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. She works mainly with watercolor and pencil, adding other materials and techniques where a project requires them. Last year, Oleksandra held a solo exhibition entitled ‘Faraway. From Ukraine to UK – A Tribute‘ in Dumfries, which then travelled to […]
Paria Goodarzi
Paria Goodarzi is an Iranian-born artist and social art practitioner, a member of UNESCO RILA Affiliated Artist network, and The Young Academy of Scotland. Paria studied BA(Hons) in Textile Design from the University of Science & Culture in Tehran, Sculpture & Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art, and Master of Adult Education, Community Development […]
Haleh Jamali
Haleh Jamali is an Iranian artist, who views video art as a storytelling tool that creates immersive experiences that resonate deeply with viewers’ emotions. Passionate about exploring themes of identity and societal issues, Haleh wants to challenge stereotypes and misconceptions about Iranian culture, while also shedding light on the challenges and complexities faced by individuals […]
Shailini Vinod
Jessica Kerr
Jessica is a cellist and teacher based in Glasgow, with an ongoing commitment to confronting and engaging with the climate crisis through her work. Recent projects include a commission for the Scottish Ecological Design Association, taking birdsong as an indicator of landscape health as the inspiration for a new musical work, and Stories of People […]
Brooke Robinson
Brooke Robinson is a playwright and novelist from Western Sydney. Her professionally produced plays include Bad Machine (Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2022) and Good Cook. Friendly. Clean (Griffin Theatre, 2018), both published by Currency Press. Her debut novel, The Interpreter, was published in 2023 with Harvill Secker/Penguin Random House in Australia, the UK and Commonwealth, and HarperCollins in the USA. It is […]
Jo Tomlinson
Sculpture House Residency is a new residency for a visual artist from Paisley (either currently living and working in Paisley or originally from Paisley). Developed by Cove Park in partnership with the town’s Sculpture House, this two-week fully funded residency offers time for self-directed studio work and the development of new ideas and projects. Sculpture House […]
Thulani Rachia
Thulani Rachia is a South African artist working in performance, moving image, music composition and sculpture. Rachia’s work investigates the built environment as an archive to history and how it shapes social hierarchies. His inquiry Siwaguba kanjani amaphupho ethu agqitjwe kulezindonga?: how do we excavate the dreams laid to rest in these walls? currently acts […]
Frankie Mulholland
Frankie Mulholland is an artist working with the mediums of movement, visual art and sound. Through these mediums, her work interrogates identity, time, intimacy and dance as a form of healing. She believes in the importance of connection and the shared experience of dance and music we have in club spaces. Clubs as a potential […]
Kialy Tihngang
Kialy Tihngang works in video, sculpture, textiles, animation and photomontage, typically involving elaborate sets, costumes, graphics, props, and collaborations with performers and musicians. As a British-born Cameroonian, her research-based practice focuses on colonial European misrepresentation, extraction, and demonisation of West African cultural practices, but also on her own misremembering, misreading, and romanticisation of said practices, […]
Gaïa
Gaïa (she/they) is a jazz and rnb singer based in Glasgow. Their practice revolves around several collaborative projects within the Neo-jazz scene in Glasgow ranging from rnb to spiritual jazz projects. Their practice has evolved over the past year – now working amongst different scenes and working collaboratively with different musicians, poets, and more.
Plantainchipps
DJ and Music Producer, Plantainchipps is all about upbeat and fast-paced sounds, music that uplifts and excites. She keeps it energetic, multidimensional, and firmly rooted on the dancefloor with selections including Afrobeats, R’n’B, house and dancehall. Plantainchipps has played a variety of gigs around Glasgow including The Berkley Suite, The Art School and Stereo, and […]
Tatenda
Tatenda is an artist of the palate. With a background in cheese and wine, she focuses on sustainable ancestral methods of food production and the process that transform flavours within and between food. She uses storytelling approach as an accessible way to share knowledge whilst using our senses to reconnect to our bodies.
Najma Hussein Abukar
Najma Hussein Abukar is a Somali born, Glasgow based photographer documenting cultural and immigrant experiences. Passionate about curating, archiving, and re (focusing) narratives of those underrepresented and marginalised, her practice is concerned with issues of identity, (self) representation and the notion of home and belonging within the Scottish landscape.
Salma Francoise Faraji
Originally from Tanzania, East Africa, and now based in Glasgow, Salma has taught and performed with multi-generational communities in Scotland. Prior to volunteering in South America as a Human Rights Ambassador, she pursued a career as an Air Traffic Control Assistant. She teaches Aerobics with Soul ® The African Dance Workout, and continues studying British […]
p a t s y
p a t s y is a creative entrepreneur, based in Glasgow. She is a multifaceted individual who founded BAMILEK – an independent concept store whose mission is to connect the African Diaspora. She spends a lot of her time capturing life moments through photos, videos and audio, comprising them using mixed media on her […]
Matthew Floyd
This year, the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities are continuing to support their arts & humanities PhD students (based across 17 Scottish institutions) with residencies for creative practice, working with Cove Park to provide dedicated creative time, space, and freedom to develop their doctoral work within a supportive and inspiring context. Matthew Floyd […]
Charlotte Wood
Our partnership with Edinburgh International Book Festival continues this year with a post-Festival residency for Charlotte Wood. Charlotte is the Australian author of seven novels and three books of non-fiction. Her new book Stone Yard Devotional was described by the Guardian as ‘a quiet novel of immense power’ and has been praised by authors Anne Enright, Tim Winton, Karen Joy […]
Marcus Richardson
Marcus (they/them) is a theatre maker. Their practice leads them to direct, perform, and write. Their work often centres around autoethnography and autobiography to explore the multiplicity of identities that we as individuals possess. They seek to create work that explores the complex relationships, not just between characters, but also the performer and the audience. […]
Maria de Lima
Maria de Lima is a Brazilian-British artist currently based in Glasgow, working across video, installation and painting. She approaches video through a feminist lens to explore the many value systems embedded in language. Focusing on translation between Portuguese and English, she explores how the legacy of colonialism and its resistance leaves traces through the words […]
Jere Vainio
Finnish artist Jere Vainio is the recipient of the 2024 Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency. Vainio works with familiar materials and seeks to understand them from the perspective of making and unmaking. This approach stems from his experience as a skilled pattern cutter and maker of clothing. He utilises a technical approach to […]
Cho Eun Phil
Now in its second year, Cove Park is delighted to partner once again with the Busan Cultural Foundation to provide a four-week residency for a South Korean artist. Following an application process, we are pleased to announce the recipient of this residency is Cho Eun-Phil. After majoring in sculpture in the Department of Fine Arts […]
RCS CPP 2024 Graduates
We are delighted to expand our partnership with The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and offer a special group residency for the 2024 graduates of the Contemporary Performance Practice programme. Every summer since 2021, Cove Park has hosted one recent graduate of the CPP programme including Sally Charlton, Nell O’Hara, and Margot Conde Arenas. This year, […]
Nikhil Vettukattil
As part of the Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA) commission programme, artist Nikhil Vettukattil will be at Cove Park for four weeks following residencies at Narsaq International Research Station in Greenland and Artica Svalbard in Norway. At Cove Park, Nikhil will continue developing ‘Cantina‘ – a project exploring a healthy, affordable, […]
Loretta Mulholland
Loretta is studying for a PhD in English at Dundee University. Using literary techniques and extracts from Bird’s work she is writing a series of creative non-fiction essays which explore themes such as landscape, solitariness, and creativity; truth, memory and marginal voices, and the literary value of the epistolatory form. Loretta has been published in […]
Luis M S Santos
We are delighted to be one of three international residecies hosting awardees of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize. This international prize was created by the City of Porto, Portugal, in tribute to its late Councillor for Culture Paulo Cunha e Silva (1962 – 2015), a central figure for the city’s artistic life. The […]
Laure Vigna
Cove Park’s third residency as part of the Magnetic programme has been awarded to the Marseille-based artist Laure Vigna. Laure Vigna (b. 1984) is a French artist and practice-based researcher living and working in Marseille. She’s a recent graduate from the MA Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths University of London (2022) and holds an MFA […]
Shao-Fei Hsu
The 2024 Taiwanese Writer Residency has been awarded to Shao-Fei Hsu. Shao-Fei published Diary of a Little Devil Nanny in 2018 and has translated several French works into Taiwanese. She writes novels set in Taiwan, France, and Kyoto. She is also engaged in research on British, American, and French sign language poetry. Shao-Fei is currently based in […]
Sâmir Bhamra
Sâmir Bhamra, founder and artistic director of Phizzical Productions and creative director of the UK Asian Film Festival, seamlessly blends performing arts and cinema in his groundbreaking work. In 2024, he will debut in the West-end with his musical “Bombay Superstars”. A sought-after director, musical writer and producer, Sâmir champions South Asian and global majority […]
Lili-Anne Brown
Lili-Anne Brown, a Chicago South Side native, works as a director, actor and educator, and has performed in, directed and produced many award-winning shows in Chicago and nationally. Recent directing credits include: Dreamgirls (Goodspeed Musicals and McCarter Theater), FELA! (Olney Theatre and Round House Theatre), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Huntington Theatre), The Nacirema Society.…, […]
Debbie Hannan
Debbie Hannan writes and directs new work for stage and screen. They are currently Associate Director at the National Theatre of Scotland. From January to July 2022, they were the Acting Artistic Director of Stockroom. They are represented by Independent Talent, and trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and as Trainee Director at the […]
David Paul Jones
DPJ is an Edinburgh-based composer, pianist and vocalist. He has been creating work as a solo and collaborative artist across multi-artforms throughout Scotland, UK and internationally for over thirty years. His music blends contemporary classical sensibilities with digital sound, exploring emotive and atmospheric soundworlds, from acoustic instrumental works, songs and larger-scale vocal works, to cinematic […]
Robby Khela
Robby Khela began his career in the music industry after signing with Telstar Records. He supported pop acts Craig David, Blue, Lemar, Girls Aloud and Misteeq on tour and worked with Rishi Rich and Max Martin as a songwriter. His break into the world of acting came through Phizzical Productions after landing a lead role […]
Nikki Lynette
Nikki Lynette is a social impact artist & suicide survivor who fuses mental health activism into her musical theater performances, film projects and visual art, creating a lane that is uniquely her own. This Chicago native’s self-produced songs are frequently featured in popular shows on Netflix, Hulu, Showtime and more. Her journey with mental health […]
Jonathan O'Neill
Jonathan O’Neill and Isaac Savage are an award-winning, Glasgow-based musical theatre writing duo, whose work has been performed internationally as part of festivals and concerts. Writing credits include: Bon Appétit and Tanya (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); The Great Elf Escape: LIVE (The Ayr Gaiety/Fearless Players); Belongings (The Minster School, Southwell) and Stay (A Play, a […]
Andy McGregor
Andy McGregor is a director, composer and playwright based in Glasgow. He trained at Glasgow University and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He is artistic director of Sleeping Warrior Theatre company – shows he has written, composed and directed for them include Battery Park, Crocodile Rock, A New Life, Spuds, The Rise and Inevitable Fall […]
Linda McLean
Linda McLean is an award-winning playwright based in Glasgow. Her plays are produced in the UK and internationally, most notably in the USA and France. In 2023, she wrote Castle Lennox for Lung Ha Theatre Company and the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh. During the pandemic she wrote, Go On, a response to Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape […]
Isaac Savage
Jonathan O’Neill and Isaac Savage are an award-winning, Glasgow-based musical theatre writing duo, whose work has been performed internationally as part of festivals and concerts. Writing credits include: Bon Appétit and Tanya (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); The Great Elf Escape: LIVE (The Ayr Gaiety/Fearless Players); Belongings (The Minster School, Southwell) and Stay (A Play, a […]
Devesh Sodha
Devesh Sodha, aka DEVSO, is an award winning British composer for media. His versatile compositional skills span a wide range of genres, including action, horror, thriller, drama, musicals, and more. From emotive and inspiring melodies to epic and breathtaking cinematic masterpieces, DEVSO’s distinct sound can be heard accompanying major trailers for TV shows, films and […]
Sushma Soma
Sushma Soma is an award-winning Karnatik vocalist. Recognised as one of the passionate ‘youths driving positive change through their actions’, Sushma was awarded the Young Artist Award, the highest honour for young arts practitioners in Singapore. Sushma also won the All-India Radio competition for Karnatik Music. Sushma is currently mentored by renowned violinist and musicologist, […]
Neel Chaudhuri
Neel Chaudhuri is a playwright and theatre director based in New Delhi. He is a founder-member of the Tadpole Repertory, where he was formerly Artistic Director (2009-2019). His plays with Tadpole include Godspeed (TFA Award for Creative Writing 2009),Taramandal (The Hindu MetroPlus Playwright Award 2010), Still and Still Moving (written in collaboration with the Royal Court Theatre, UK), and Quicksand. Neel […]
Imogen Stirling
Imogen Stirling is a Scottish artist. She is a playwright, performance poet and producer. Imogen creates startling and expressive hybrid work straddling the worlds of poetry, theatre and electronic music. Imogen has performed her work extensively around the UK and Europe, with partners including Glastonbury, Latitude Festival, Anniki Runofestivaali, Secret Garden Party and the Edinburgh […]
Jeanie O’Hare
Jeanie O’Hare is a writer, freelance dramaturg and creative producer. She was Director of New Work Development at the Public Theater in NYC, and Chair of Playwriting at Yale School of Drama. She trained at the Royal Court Theatre, and worked as Company Dramaturg for the Royal Shakespeare Company, developing Matilda the Musical. Jeanie collaborates […]
James McKeon
James McKeon studied at Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester and Christ’s College, Cambridge where he was the organ scholar. He is currently Musical Director and Associate Musical Supervisor for Moulin Rouge The Musical in London, as well as Associate Musical Supervisor for the German production and the forthcoming Dutch production. West End shows as Musical […]
Andrew Panton
Andrew joined Dundee Rep & Scottish Dance Theatre in 2017. He is an award-winning director and educator working internationally across theatre, music and television and was previously Associate Director at Royal & Derngate and Perth Theatres and Assistant Director at the Stephen Joseph Theatre. For Dundee Rep: Scottish Premieres of Tracey Letts’ Pulitzer Prize winning […]
Shonagh Murray
Shonagh Murray is a musical director, composer/writer and teacher based in Glasgow. Her most recent MD credits are A Mother’s Song (Macrobert Art Centre & KT Producing); Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World (Kick Ass Theatre Productions Ltd, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022); Orphans (National Theatre of Scotland, Associate Music Director); Bairns in the Woods […]
Alex Marrs
Alex Marrs (she/her) is a producer and arts administrator living in Glasgow. She is the Programmes & Communications Producer at Cove Park, an international artists’ residency on the west coast of Scotland. She is a co-producer on Austen’s Pride, a new musical. Previously, she has served as the Executive Producer of Brooklyn-based theatre company Colt […]
Paria Goodarzi
Paria Goodarzi is an Iranian-born artist and social art practitioner, a member of UNESCO RILA Affiliated Artist network, and The Young Academy of Scotland. Paria studied BA(Hons) in Textile Design from the University of Science & Culture in Tehran, Sculpture & Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art, and Master of Adult Education, Community Development […]
Iman Tajik
Iman Tajik is an Iranian artist based in Glasgow. His work is anchored in a strong social interest and demonstrates an effort to make work that is a critical tool connected to international movements for social change. Tajik’s work addresses issues of contemporary conditions of life with a particular focus on migration and globalisation – […]
Ako Zada
Ako Zada (he/him) is a Glasgow based multi-disciplinary artist originally from Iraqi Kurdistan who arrived in Scotland as a refugee in 2011. He has studied paper making, pottery, photography and printmaking and integrates these techniques with his community work supporting refugees and the Kurdish community in Glasgow. In 2022 Ako experienced a sudden, life threatening […]
Oleksandra Novatska
Oleksandra Novatska is an artist and curator from Lviv, Ukraine, now living in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. She works mainly with watercolor and pencil, adding other materials and techniques where a project requires them. Last year, Oleksandra held a solo exhibition entitled ‘Faraway. From Ukraine to UK – A Tribute‘ in Dumfries, which then travelled […]
Haleh Jamali
Haleh Jamali is an Iranian woman artist, who views video art as a storytelling tool that creates immersive experiences that resonate deeply with viewers’ emotions. Passionate about exploring themes of identity and societal issues, Haleh wants to challenge stereotypes and misconceptions about Iranian culture, while also shedding light on the challenges and complexities faced by […]
Daria Oskolkova
Daria Oskolkova is a Ukrainian artist, a writer and now a painter. Her connection with art became tangible in the summer of 2016 when she visited the studio of Vladimir Shaposhnikov and Anna Ielizarova. “Two artists, a master and his student, worked on vast canvases opposite each other. The powerful impression I received from this […]
Chizu Anucha
Chizu Anucha (aka chizu nnamdi) is the Scottish artist awarded a residency at Villa Arson as part of the Magnetic 2 programme. A Scotsman of Nigerian origin, Chizu Anucha graduated from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in structural engineering and architectural design, and holds a Master of Design in sound for the moving image from Glasgow […]
Josefin Vargö
Food Ecologies was developed as a pilot residency exchange programme between Scotland and Sweden in 2022. The programme continues in 2024 and is a partnership between Cove Park and IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s international Programme for Visual and Applied Arts. The recipient of the 2024 Food Ecologies Residency at Cove Park is Josefin […]
Hye Soon Seo & Shon Kim
Cove Park is delighted to work in partnership with Busan Cultural Foundation this year and to develop a new residency for a South Korean artist. Following an application process, we are pleased to announce the recipient of this residency is Hye Soon Seo. Hye Soon Seo creates sound art that plays with our senses of […]
Laure Vigna
Cove Park’s third residency as part of the Magnetic programme has been awarded to the Marseille-based artist Laure Vigna. Laure Vigna (b. 1984) is a French artist and practice-based researcher living and working in Marseille. She’s a recent graduate from the MA Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths University of London (2022) and holds an MFA […]
Katy Derbyshire & Tanja Handels
ViceVersa translation workshops bring together experienced literary translators working with the same language pairing, in both directions. The one-week residency at Cove Park is a an opportunity for ten translators between English and German to workshop current projects with their peers in an intensive but supportive environment. While extremely creative and rewarding, literary translation is […]
Janine Mitchell
This year, the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities are supporting their arts & humanities PhD students (based across 17 Scottish institutions) with residencies for creative practice, working with Cove Park to provide dedicated creative time, space, and freedom to develop their doctoral work within a supportive and inspiring context. Janine Mitchell is a […]
Body Remedy
Body Remedy, based in Glasgow, is an organisation that centres physical practice for self-recovery. Contributors and participants of Body Remedy are black people and people of colour (BPOC) who identify as women and non-binary. They organise as a small team led by founder and former Cove Park resident Mele Broomes in collaboration with Lead Producer […]
Sido Lansari
Sido Lansari is a multidisciplinary artist. He was born and raised in Casablanca, Morocco. In 2014, he moved to Tangier and joined Cinémathèque de Tanger where he was the director until September 2022. Based currently in Lyon, his artistic practice revolves around questions related to identity, gender and sexuality by exploring the blind spots of […]
Michael John O'Neill
Michael John O’Neill is a producer, writer and cultural programmer based in Scotland. As a writer, Michael’s first play Akedah won the Bruntwood Prize Original New Voice Award 2019 and premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 2023. His second play This is Paradise was presented at Traverse Theatre for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2021 and 2022 and won the […]
Heidi Hornáčková & Suraia Abud Coaik
We, the Landscape Research & Residency Project is a new art project by Live Performance Bazaar with a focus on ecology and nature protection. It brings artists and cultural managers together with natural scientists. The aim is to promote nature protection and restoration activities and to establish a dialogue between the artistic and scientific communities in Central Europe. […]
Aslı Hatipoğlu & Marente van der Valk
The Food Lab Residency brings Netherlands based culinary artists to Cove Park to experiment, develop, and nurture their food focused projects. The residency is devised in partnership with The Food Lab of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, and launched in 2022 with Amsterdam based artist Suzanne Bernhardt. This year we welcome back Food Lab […]
Fine Mayer
Now in its second year, the Young Gaelic Writer Residency is the result of a partnership between Cove Park and Comhairle nan Leabhraichean / The Gaelic Books Council. It supports a Gaelic writer based in Scotland, aged under 30, and provides the time and funding required to develop current projects. A-nis san dàrna bliadhna, tha […]
Sophie Cunningham
We are delighted to partner with Edinburgh International Book Festival to host Australian writer Sophie Cunningham in August. Sophie Cunningham is a non-fiction writer and novelist with a passion for trees, walking and broader environmental issues. She will be a guest of the Edinburgh International Book Festival talking about her novel This Devastating Fever, and […]
Sarah Krasnostein
We are delighted to partner with Edinburgh International Book Festival to host Australian writer Sarah Krasnostein in August. Sarah Krasnostein is a multi-award winning writer and critic. She is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner (2017),The Believer(2021), the Quarterly Essay,Not Waving, Drowning(2022) andOn Peter Carey(2023). She holds aPhD in criminal law and is admitted to legal practice […]
Jeanine Leane
Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from southwest New South Wales. Her poetry, short stories, critique, and essays have been published in Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation Australian Poetry Journal, Antipodes, Overland and the Sydney Review of Books. Jeanine has published widely in the area of Aboriginal literature, writing otherness […]
Emily Beaney
This year, the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities are supporting their arts & humanities PhD students (based across 17 Scottish institutions) with residencies for creative practice, working with Cove Park to provide dedicated creative time, space, and freedom to develop their doctoral work within a supportive and inspiring context. Emily Beaney is an […]
Sekai Machache
Sekai Machache is a Zimbabwean-Scottish visual artist 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 body paint […]
Marissa Clarke
This year, the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities are supporting their arts & humanities PhD students (based across 17 Scottish institutions) with residencies for creative practice, working with Cove Park to provide dedicated creative time, space, and freedom to develop their doctoral work within a supportive and inspiring context. Marissa Clarke is an […]
Margot Conde Arenas
Margot Conde Arenas is a Venezuelan, Colombian, Welsh and Dutch multidisciplinary artist, performer and facilitator based in Glasgow. Working across live performance, video art and movement, her work explores decoloniality; migration and displacement; homelands; traumatised bodies; womanhood; biophilia; and ancestry. Creating and collaborating in socially engaged contexts, her arts practice focuses on amplifying unheard human […]
Veronika Skliarova
Veronika Skliarova is a cultural manager, theatre producer, and curator from Ukraine. She is the Programme Director of Parade-Fest, was the producer of Сrimea, 5am, an intersectoral performance project, and Ukrainian Odyssey, which involved performances in 5 cities in Ukraine. Since February 2022, Veronika has created Anthology24, a collection of texts for theatre written following the […]
Mhari McMullan
This year, the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities are supporting their arts & humanities PhD students (based across 17 Scottish institutions) with residencies for creative practice, working with Cove Park to provide dedicated creative time, space, and freedom to develop their doctoral work within a supportive and inspiring context. Mhari McMullan is a […]
Lori Delaney
This year, the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities are supporting their arts & humanities PhD students (based across 17 Scottish institutions) with residencies for creative practice, working with Cove Park to provide dedicated creative time, space, and freedom to develop their doctoral work within a supportive and inspiring context. Lori Delaney is a […]
Flo Fitzgerald-Allsopp
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 […]
Ahmed El Shaer
Ahmed El Shaer is a contemporary Egyptian artist who was born in Cairo in 1981 and now lives and works in New York, USA. El Shaer is a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes installation, photography, sound, and moving images. He is also very interested in new technologies. holds a B.F.A. from the Faculty of Art […]
Molly Farrell
Molly C Farrell (they/them) is a writer and researcher based at Glasgow University, where they teach and occasionally lecture. Their current doctoral thesis considers codes in sapphic modernisms between 1895 and 1928. During their residency at Cove Park, they will be reflecting on and writing a practice research essay about their SGSAH-funded survivor-led project ‘Matters […]
Wang-ling Shieh
Wang-ling Shieh (b.1980) is a Taiwanese writer holding a bachelor’s degree in politics and law and a master’s degree in Taiwanese literature. He has been a journalist, an editor, the curator of “Cloud Gate Lecture” at Cloud Gate Theatre, and a lecturer in the Department of Art and Design at Yuanze University. Mr. Shieh has […]
Victoria Evans
This year, the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities are supporting their arts & humanities PhD students (based across 17 Scottish institutions) with residencies for creative practice, working with Cove Park to provide dedicated creative time, space, and freedom to develop their doctoral work within a supportive and inspiring context. Victoria Evans is a […]
Ross Fleming
Ross Fleming is an artist based in Paisley, Renfrewshire, who graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, Recent exhibitions include: ‘SUPERNOVIA’ (duo) in 2016, The Projects Space, Glasgow; ‘SPICEBOYS’ (solo) in 2018 as part of the Burns Unbroke Festival, Summerhall, Edinburgh; ‘flemings lemons’ (solo) in 2020, Intermedia Gallery, CCA Glasgow; ‘Life After Love’ (duo) in 2021, Generator Projects […]
Carla Adra
Cove Park’s second residency as part of the Magnetic programme has been awarded to the Paris-based artist Carla Adra. Carla Adra is a French and Canadian artist and performer with artistic and anthropological education in France, Canada and Mexico. Self-narratives and the experience of reciprocity are at the centre of Carla Adra’s practice. In public […]
Alex Cecchetti
We are delighted to welcome Alex Cecchetti to Cove Park this spring. This is the final residency in our European Residency Programme, supported by British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland. Alex Cecchetti is an artist, a poet, a gardener, a freediver and a choreographer. Difficult to classify, his work can be considered as the art […]
Santtu Laine
Santtu Laine is a Finnish multidisciplinary artist based in Helsinki. He works with installation, sculpture, images, and sound, often exploring themes of memory and its inherent ambiguity. His art practice focuses on alternative and sustainable methods of creation, combining various techniques and materials to continually seek new forms of expression. Santtu holds a Master of […]
Jenny Hogarth
Jenny Hogarth (b.1979, Scotland) is an artist based in Edinburgh. In 2022 Jenny showed new moving image works ‘Flow Co Motion’ (2022) and ‘If You Talk About The Volcano Will You Talk About Yourself’ (2022) at the Talbot Rice Gallery and the Freelands Foundation respectively. Other recent moving image works ‘Wild Thing’ (2019) and ‘Channelling’ […]
Mamoru Iriguchi
Mamoru Iriguchi returns to Cove Park for a writing residency through Playwrights’ Studio’s Play Development Bursary programme. In 2022, Mamoru participated in Cove Park’s Play Park Residency Programme as an interdisciplinary practice facilitator. He was also a resident in 2016 for the annual Space/Time Retreat facilitated by Magnetic North. Mamoru is a performance maker with […]
Emmie McLuskey
Collaboration is central to the work Emmie McLuskey produces, starting with a shared question or observation that she explores more deeply through practice, previously this has taken the form of publications, events, objects, conversations and exhibitions. Recent work has centred around interactions in and between bodies, considering the systems that control and record them. McLuskey […]
David Douard
David Douard was awarded a 3-week Cove Park Magnetic Residency. Based in Paris, David graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2011. Since then his work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions across France and internationally. This residency is David’s first opportunity to work in Scotland and we […]
Martin Aitken
The final residency in our current European Residency Programme was developed in partnership with publisher Lolli Editions and awarded to the literary translator Martin Aitken. Martin was born in Carlisle and grew up on the Wirral. He spent several years in Newcastle where he studied creative arts before moving to Denmark. Gaining a PhD in […]
Eothen Stearn
Eothen Stearn (born 1987, UK), lives and works in Glasgow. She has an MA from The Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and a BA from Goldsmiths University, London. In between these two Eo attended the UK art educational protest The School of the Damned. She has performed at UK festivals RADIOPHRENIA, SUPERNORMAL, BUZZCUT Double Thrills and […]
Mairi Macleod
The Young Gaelic Writer Residency is the result of a partnership between Cove Park and Comhairle nan Leabhraichean / The Gaelic Books Council. It supports a Gaelic writer based in Scotland, aged under 30, and provides the time and funding required to develop current projects. Tha an cothrom airson Sgrìobhadair Òg air Mhuinntireas na thoradh […]
Una Hallgrímsdóttir
Una Hallgrímsdóttir is a chef and designer based in Sweden. Her work addresses cooking as design practice, exploring food and eating with a creative and critical approach. Una holds a bachelor’s degree from Linnæus University’s Design+Change programme. During her studies in Växjö, she co-founded The Feminist Farmers, a collective project exploring resilient and regenerative farming […]
Suzanne Bernhardt
This new residency, which takes place at Cove Park and at CCA Glasgow, has been devised in partnership with The Food Lab of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. The multi-disciplinary practice of Suzanne Bernhardt always originates from a specific location. Fieldwork, material experiments and immaterial memories from people form the fundamental basis for this […]
Sarah Rose
Sarah Rose works in sculpture, sound, installation and expanded forms of publishing. Her interests lie in what is considered ephemeral but has lasting impacts and residues. In her practice, materials move in and out of abstractions, intimately tracing material states and temporalities, including those existing at the edges of perception. The work draws from ecological […]
Iisa Lepistö
The Helsinki-based artist Iisa Lepistö takes part in our first Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency. Iisa works with writing and sculptural objects. Her interests include the origins of sculptural materials and their possible futures, feminist theory and the combination of linguistic and sculptural expression. She graduated with a Master’s degree in Visual Arts […]
Rae-Yen Song
Rae-Yen Song (b. 1993, Edinburgh, Scotland) is an artist based in Glasgow. Working expansively through drawing, sculpture, installation, costume, video, sound, performance, family collaboration and any other medium that becomes appropriate, Song’s practice is a long-term exercise in self-mythology as survival tactic. It explores the position of Other within our tangled reality, speaking broadly about […]
Leah Kaminsky
Leah Kaminsky is a physician and award-winning writer. Her debut novel The Waiting Room won the Voss Literary Prize. The Hollow Bones won the International Book Awards in both Literary Fiction & Historical Fiction categories and the Best Book Awards for Literary Fiction. She is the author of ten books and her third novel, Doll’s Eye, will be released […]
Nell O'Hara
We are delighted to continue our partnership with The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland to offer a recent graduate from the Contemporary Performance Practice a research residency at Cove Park. In 2022, the residency has been awarded to Nell O’Hara. In 2021, this residency was awarded to Sally Charlton. Nell O’Hara is a Bristol born, Glasgow […]
Alex McCabe, Stefanie Schwimmbeck, Emma Jayne Park
Cove Park, in collaboration with The Work Room and TanzFaktur Cologne, will welcome two of the ten dance artists joining the CROWD – international dance exchange 2022 programme this summer, funded by the Goethe-Institut, Arts Council England, NRW KULTURsekretariat, Nordisk Kulturfond and Creative Scotland. The Work Room and TanzFaktur are both members of CROWD, a collaborative network of international […]
Lauren Bremner with Robyn Woolston, Annette Laing
Lauren Bremner is an up and coming young Scottish artist. Lauren’s artworks are mostly inspired by two of her great loves; nature and cats. Inspired by her love of nature, Lauren loves to develop ideas with her studio support artists, taking inspiration from her local surroundings and landmarks, as well as landscapes further afield. Lauren […]
Tian Yi Zheng
Tian Yi Zheng is a writer and lawyer based in London. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London and is currently working on a collection of short stories. Her writing has appeared online in various publications, including competition placements in CRAFT and Fractured Lit, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Tian […]
Rhona Warwick Paterson
RSA Residencies for Scotland is s an artist-led scheme which provides valuable research and residency opportunities for artists. It forges important networks with centres of artistic excellence across Scotland, ranging from traditional residency venues to specialised production facilities. In our second year of partnering with RSA Residencies for Scotland, we are delighted to welcome the […]
Rodell Warner
Rodell Warner (b. 1986) is a Trinidadian artist working primarily in new media and photography. His works have been exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art in the 2016 Dreamlands exhibition as part of the collective video project Ways of Something, and at The National Gallery of Jamaica in the 2016 exhibition Digital, and at the 10th Berlin […]
Ras Akyem
Ras is a Barbadian painter. A graduate of the Edna Manley School of Art in Jamaica, his work is heavily influenced by the Rastafari movement. The World Reimagined is a ground-breaking, UK art education project to transform how we understand the Transatlantic trade of Enslaved Africans and its impact on all of us so that […]
Tamika Galanis
Tamika Galanis is a documentarian and multimedia visual artist. A Bahamian native, Tamika’s work examines the complexities of living in a place shrouded in tourism’s ideal during the age of climate concerns. Emphasizing the importance of Bahamian cultural identity for cultural preservation, Tamika documents aspects of Bahamian life not curated for tourist consumption to intervene […]
Eric Chi-Puo Lin
We are pleased to welcome Eric Chi-Puo Lin to Cove Park this summer, in our ongoing series of residencies for Taiwanese writers and researchers. A literary writer, a journalist, an artist, and an art critic, Lin paints a picture by taking three different threads —’literary creation’, ‘trend observations,’ and ‘news reporting’ —and weaving them into […]
Rudy Kanhye
During the summer and autumn of 2022, the Glasgow-based artist, curator, and culinary designer Rudy Kanhye has been commissioned to work with Cove Park on a series of public events and dinners connected directly to the development of two Unexpected Gardens here on the Roseneath peninsula, as part of the nationwide Dandelion project. Rudy is […]
Yuching Lin
We are pleased to welcome Yuching Lin to Cove Park this summer, in our ongoing series of residencies for Taiwanese writers and researchers. Yuching Lin currently is an independent research-based translator, curator and writer based in Taipei, Taiwan. Her projects usually involve and introduce issues of politics, culture, history and society of South and Southeast […]
Jasmine Thomas-Girvan
Jasmine Thomas-Girvan was born in the parish of St Andrew in Jamaica in 1961. Her formative years were spent in an environment that nurtured her relationship with the nature. The tree filled ‘wonderland’ hidden behind the walls of her parent’s Molynes Road home, belied its urban location and helped to further fuel the fascination with […]
Louis Brown & Felix Melia
Working with teens in London’s Southbank University Academy who are regularly exposed to illegal levels of air pollution, and members of Hermitage Academy’s Eco Committee in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, artist collective East London Cable are co-producing a new film that explores climate justice and the uneven impacts of ‘net-zero’ climate policies. Shot in the […]
Juliane Foronda
The Glasgow-based visual artist Juliane Foronda (she/her) was awarded the RAW Material Company residency as part of the organisation’s exchange with Cove Park. This residency provides the time for research, the development of new work, and the opportunity to take part in RAW Material Company’s internationally acclaimed programme. Juliane Foronda (she/her) is a Filipina-Canadian artist, […]
Katrine Turner
If Our Trees Could Talk is a new storytelling commission focused on the unique habitats of Scotland’s rainforests and those who live and work in these unique environments. The commission and related residency was awarded in February 2022 to the Glasgow-based artist Katrine Turner. Katrine works between live performance, film and participation. She creates work […]
Rachel McBrinn & Alison Scott
The Argyll Beacon Film Commission was awarded in November 2021 to the Scotland-based artists Rachel McBrinn and Alison Scott. The Commission is for a new moving image work connected to Scotland’s rainforests, the theme of the Argyll Beacon and the focus of Cove Park’s partnership with Argyll & the Isles Coast & Countryside Trust (Act).This […]
Juliana Capes
The Edinburgh-based artist Juliana Capes returns to Cove Park in March 2022 following the award made to her last year of the Argyll Beacon Artist in Schools commission. Juliana is an award-winning multidisciplinary visual artist who has exhibited most recently at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery, Royal Scottish Academy and Edinburgh Art Festival. Her diverse artworks often […]
Suzi Cunningham with Bell Lungs, Jen Cunningham, & Dylan Read
Suzi Cunningham is a dance/performance artist and maker. She designs and presents challenging and political work, often bespoke and immediate in responses to environments. She has significant training and experience in dance and butoh, physical theatre and outdoor performance and has presented her own solo works at Dance Live (Aberdeen), Hidden Door (Edinburgh), Festival Mirabilia (Italy), the CCA and Leith Theatre. She was chosen as Surges’ Rising Voice for ‘Eidos’ […]
Ibrahima Thiam
Born in 1976 in Saint Louis, Senegal, Ibrahima Thiam studied economics in Dakar. Following a workshop organized by Goethe-Institute during the Month of Photography at Dakar in 2009, he found his passion for photography. Self-taught, he is interested in memory, archives, African orality as well as myths and legends. Ibrahima collects pictures, including some from […]
Hannah Lavery
Hannah Lavery is a poet, playwright, performer and director. The Drift, her autobiographical lyric play, toured Scotland as part of the National Theatre of Scotland’s Season 2019. In 2020, she was a recipient of a New Playwrights Award by Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland and selected by Owen Sheers’ as one of his Ten Writers Asking Questions That Will Shape Our […]
Nick Makoha
Nick Makoha is the founder of The Obsidian Foundation. In 2017, Nick’s debut collection, Kingdom of Gravity, was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and was one of the Guardian’s best books of the year. Nick is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and the Complete Works alumnus. He won the 2015 Brunel International African […]
Erchao Gu
A local of Wuxi, Singapore and London, Erchao Gu is a composer, cultural bridge builder and music educator. Her music has been heard at Barbican Centre’s ‘Beethoven Weekender’, ‘Sounds Like THIS’ festival in Leeds, The Place Theatre, London and in association with Illuminated River, for which she created an orchestral score to celebrate the completion […]
Edward Gwyn Jones
Edward Gwyn Jones works primarily with moving image. His work utilises appropriated moving images, artefacts, and sound to antagonise the relationships between perceived concurrent binaries and how they inform collective and individual postulations of time. Ed graduated from Manchester School of Art in 2019 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Sculpture and Time-Based Arts, […]
Tako Taal
Tako Taal is an artist-filmmaker and programmer living in Glasgow. She graduated in 2015 from Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen. She was a 2019 RAW Academy fellow at RAW Material Company, Dakar and Artist in Residence at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 2018-20. Taal’s work often considers the paradoxes of black subjectivities, and her artistic practice […]
Dulcie Abrahams Altass & Fatima Bintou Rassoul Sy
We are delighted to host RAW Material Company Programme Curators Fatima Bintou Rassoul Sy and Dulcie Abrahams Altass to Cove Park this month. This residency is part of an institutional and artists’ residency exchange devised by Cove Park and RAW Material Company, a centre for art, knowledge and society in Dakar, Senegal. Our collaboration was announced […]
Sulaïman Majali
Sulaïman Majali (b. 1492) is an artist-poet who brings into play rupturing, grieving and dreaming as methodologies of collapse. Considering art as an already thinking and speaking thing, the artists agitate/incite/perform towards poetic and conceptual strategies for evading empire. At issue in the play is the liberatory or otherwise. Exhibitions and events include: false dawn, Studio Pavillion, House for an […]
Cameron Morgan
In partnership with Artlink Central and Project Ability, Cove Park has developed a new pilot residency programme for artists with learning disabilities and their collaborators. The residencies will begin this year and we look forward to hosting artist Cameron Morgan with collaborator Tracy Gorman. Cameron is a multi-talented and prolific artist working with Project Ability […]
Nelly Kelly
Nelly Kelly is a proudly trans and autistic playwright, dramaturg and drag performer. Currently they are interested in making work around themes of unapologetic and defiant trans joy as a resistance to the trauma connected to when trans people are usually given space to speak in art and media. They are coming to Cove Park […]
Stephanie Mann
Stephanie Mann’s practice manifests in sculpture, text, print and video. She is fascinated by the exploration of objects – their inherent properties and latent possibilities. Her work conflates the act of thinking, working and play in questioning the ontological nature of ‘things’ and our relationships to them. Stephanie lives and works in Edinburgh. She is currently […]
Sally Charlton
We are delighted to be partnering with The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland to offer a recent graduate from the Contemporary Performance Practice a research residency at Cove Park. In 2021, the residency has been awarded to Sally Charlton. Sally Charlton is a multidisciplinary performance artist based in Glasgow. Sally graduated from the CPP programme in […]
Aideen Doran
Aideen Doran (b. 1984 in Lurgan, Northern Ireland) is an artist living in Glasgow. Doran’s practice traverses moving image, sound, installation and writing and often focuses on moments of transformation or trauma. Through a process of intuitive and considered collaging, she combines material and thematic sources to create new narrative constructions that revisit historical moments, […]
Suzi Cunningham, Monika Smekot
Cove Park is delighted to partner once again with The Work Room (Glasgow) to offer a collaborative residency to one or two of their membership. In 2020 Suzi Cunningham and Monika Smekot were selected. You can read more about Monika’s work and her plans for her residency here, and Suzi’s here. .
Ruth Kirkby
Ruth Kirkby is a letterpress printer living and working in Glasgow using traditional methods of printing with metal and wood type but also experimenting with new techniques within the process. She is particularly interested in analysing the way we experience letterforms and society’s relationship to the written word throughout the history of typography. Alongside her […]
Rosie O'Grady
Rosie O’Grady’s practice manifests in video, performance, text, print, installation and temporary intervention. Acts of collapsing and flattening can be traced throughout – in its methods, material, and subject matter. Using these processes, the work often attempts to activate moments of disorientation, which unsettle our relationship to histories, bodies, information and objects. Rosie lives and […]
Josey Rebelle
Josey Rebelle is a DJ and writer from London. She was awarded a writing residency at Cove Park as part of the Sophie Warne Fellowship after graduating from Birkbeck’s MA in Creative Writing in 2021 with the highest marked dissertation. She is currently developing that fictional piece into her debut novel and will be working […]
Lawrence Illsley
The Birkbeck/Sophie Warne Fellowship was established in 2011 and offers an outstanding graduate of the Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck, University of London, the opportunity of a residency at Cove Park to continue to develop their work. Former residents include Robert Akam, Graham Paul Donovan, Julia Gray, Gemma Elwin Harris, Genevieve Herr, Lou Kramskoy, Sadie […]
Adam Benmakhlouf & Tako Taal
We are pleased to host artist, writer, programmer and educator Adam Benmakhlouf and artist and programmer Tako Taal at Cove Park this autumn. Adam and Tako were announced by LUX Scotland and Tramway on 2 September this year as the programmers of the 9th edition of the annual Artists’ Moving Image Festival (AMIF 2020). AMIF […]
Amy Conway
Amy is a playwright, theatre maker, and actor based in Glasgow. She trained at the University of Glasgow and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her last show, Super Awesome World [dir. Rob Jones], which explores depression through video games and audience participation, won Summerhall’s Autopsy Award, and was nominated for the Scottish Arts Club Award […]
Harriet Jenkins
This is the second year Cove Park has worked in partnership with Fife Contemporary, an independent visual arts and craft organisation, based in St. Andrew’s, Fife. As part of the organisation’s New Maker programme, this residency is designed to support a recent graduate and has been awarded in 2020 to Harriet Jenkins. A graduate in 2019 […]
Kawisara Ananasaringkarn, Stefanie Ying Lin Cheong, Lynne Hocking-Mennie, Prach Niyomkar
Applied Arts Scotland and Cove Park are delighted to announce the selection of Scottish and Thai makers for a special residency as part of the ‘Meet, Make, Collaborate’ project supported by Creative Scotland and the British Council. This project brings makers from Scotland together with makers from Thailand for 10 days to develop new work together […]
Kirsty Hendry, Holly McLean, Sulaïman Majali, Alison Scott, Becky Šik
As part of its Satellites Pogramme, the Edinburgh-based visual arts organisation Collective will bring five emerging practitioners to Cove Park for a group residency in February 2020. Satellites is Collective’s development programme for emerging artists based in Scotland. This year, Alison Scott is the Satellites Associate Producer and the four participating artists are: Kirsty Hendry, Sulaïman Majali, […]
Alan Gordon
Alan Gordon is an Edinburgh-based playwright, originally from Dumfries and Galloway, and has been writing for the stage since 2011. In 2013, Alan was mentored by Paddy Cunneen through the Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s Mentoring Programme and worked with the Traverse Theatre as one of the Traverse 50. Alan has written extensively for Edinburgh-based youth theatre, […]
Stephanie Fernandes
Cove Park is delighted to continue its Translation Programme, in partnership with Publishing Scotland, to bring two translators of Scottish books for a two-week residency each to Cove Park this autumn. The programme is designed to develop the writers’ practice and boost the profile of literary translation. The aim of the residency is to enable […]
Ghislain Bareau
Cove Park is delighted to continue its Translation Programme, in partnership with Publishing Scotland, to bring two translators of Scottish books for a two-week residency each to Cove Park this autumn. The programme is designed to develop the writers’ practice and boost the profile of literary translation. The aim of the residency is to enable […]
National Centre for Writing Translation Week
Following on from our first Translation Week in October 2017, we continue our partnership with the National Centre for Writing to welcome 7 translators to take part in a one-week programme including discussion workshops, sharing work with fellow translators, and time and space to work on translation projects. Thanks to additional support from the AHRC […]
Kari Dickson
Following on from our first Translation Week in October 2017, we continue our partnership with the National Centre for Writing to welcome 7 translators to take part in a one-week programme including discussion workshops, sharing work with fellow translators, and time and space to work on translation projects. The participating translators 2019 include: Kari Dickson […]
Polly Barton
Following on from our first Translation Week in October 2017, we continue our partnership with the National Centre for Writing to welcome 7 translators to take part in a one-week programme including discussion workshops, sharing work with fellow translators, and time and space to work on translation projects. The participating translators 2019 include: Kari Dickson […]
Jozefina Komporaly
Following on from our first Translation Week in October 2017, we continue our partnership with the National Centre for Writing to welcome 7 translators to take part in a one-week programme including discussion workshops, sharing work with fellow translators, and time and space to work on translation projects. Thanks to additional support from the AHRC […]
Jozef van der Voort
Following on from our first Translation Week in October 2017, we continue our partnership with the National Centre for Writing to welcome 7 translators to take part in a one-week programme including discussion workshops, sharing work with fellow translators, and time and space to work on translation projects. The participating translators 2019 include: Kari Dickson […]
Zoë Perry
Following on from our first Translation Week in October 2017, we continue our partnership with the National Centre for Writing to welcome 7 translators to take part in a one-week programme including discussion workshops, sharing work with fellow translators, and time and space to work on translation projects. The participating translators 2019 include: Kari Dickson […]
Ayça Türkoğlu
Following on from our first Translation Week in October 2017, we continue our partnership with the National Centre for Writing to welcome 7 translators to take part in a one-week programme including discussion workshops, sharing work with fellow translators, and time and space to work on translation projects. The participating translators 2019 include: Kari Dickson […]
Katherine Mendelsohn
Image: Gustave Akakpo’s SKINS AND HOODS, trans. Katherine Mendelsohn [staged in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by Cie du Veilleur]. Actors: Moyo Akande and Ashley Smith Following on from our first Translation Week in October 2017, we continue our partnership with the National Centre for Writing to welcome 7 translators to take part in a one-week programme […]
Eva Medin
In February 2019 Cove Park was awarded funding from British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland to develop a new residency programme produced in collaboration with partners based in EU nations. The aim of this programme is to maintain and develop cultural partnerships between Scotland and these nations at a pivotal moment in the cultural landscape […]
Lillian Samdal & Deirdre Nelson
As part of our European Residency Programme – designed to develop, celebrate and promote dialogue between cultural organisations and artists based in Europe – we are collaborating with Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale, Norway, for the first time
Klaas Burger
In February 2019 Cove Park was awarded funding from British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland to develop a new residency programme produced in collaboration with partners based in EU nations. The aim of this programme is to maintain and develop cultural partnerships between Scotland and these nations at a pivotal moment in the cultural landscape […]
Mariem Omari
Mariem is a writer and activist. She is Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Bijli, Company in Residence at the National Theatre of Scotland. After spending almost two years thinking about, and compiling ideas, articles and personal accounts on the impact of Jinn and black magic on mental health, Mariem will use a Playwrights Studio self-directed writing residency […]
Magnetic North – Space/Time
Magnetic North is an award-winning theatre company based in Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 1999 by theatre and opera director Nicholas Bone. Magnetic North have brought their Space / Time residencies to Cove Park for the past 5 years. The 5-day residency is part of Magnetic North’s Artist Development programme: a creative retreat for experienced artists […]
Aliina Lindroos
As part of our European Residency Programme – designed to develop, celebrate and promote dialogue between cultural organisations and artists based in Europe – we are collaborating with Dance Ireland for the first time to host an Irish dance artist at Cove Park this autumn. The aim of the residency is to support a period of research and […]
Manos Charalabopoulos
The Ivan Juritz Prize was established in 2014 to celebrate the creative explosion of the modernist era and reward art that seeks to ‘make it new’. Postgraduate students throughout Europe, either from traditional academic disciplines or from creative courses, are invited to submit texts, films, musical compositions, virtual documentation of artwork, excerpts of moving image […]
Kathryn Maris
The Ivan Juritz Prize was established in 2014 to celebrate the creative explosion of the modernist era and reward art that seeks to ‘make it new’. Postgraduate students throughout Europe, either from traditional academic disciplines or from creative courses, are invited to submit texts, films, musical compositions, virtual documentation of artwork, excerpts of moving image […]
Claire Michel
The Ivan Juritz Prize was established in 2014 to celebrate the creative explosion of the modernist era and reward art that seeks to ‘make it new’. Postgraduate students throughout Europe, either from traditional academic disciplines or from creative courses, are invited to submit texts, films, musical compositions, virtual documentation of artwork, excerpts of moving image […]
Aisha Zia
Founded in 2004 by Louise Blackwell and Kate McGrath, Fuel is a producing organisation working in partnership with some of the most exciting artists in the UK to develop and present an adventurous, playful and significant programme of live, digital, and multi-disciplinary work for a representative audience across the UK and beyond. Working in partnership […]
Heiba Lamara
Cove Park’s programme of Early Career Residencies supports UK-based artists in the process of establishing their careers, providing an opportunity for research and the development of new work at this crucial stage. We are pleased this year to offer four residencies to artists specialising in composition/music, crafts/design, literature and visual art. This year, the crafts/design […]
Anastasiia Khlestova
Cove Park is pleased to be one of several Scottish organisations taking part in the British Council’s programme of artistic residencies SWAP: UK/UKraine 2019. Three Ukraine-based artists and a curator will spend 45 days in Scotland, while seven UK-based artists will be discovering Ukrainian cultural landscape in collaboration with cultural institutions in Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv […]
Nobuko Tsuchiya
The first residencies for artists based in Japan as part of the Scotland/Japan Residency Exchange Programme have been awarded to Nao Hishihara and Nobuko Tsuchiya. Nao will be based at Hospitalfield in Arbroath for one month in September and Nobuko will join us at Cove Park for one month from mid August this year. The […]
Bettina Münch
In February 2019 Cove Park was awarded funding from British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland to develop a new residency programme produced in collaboration with partners based in EU nations. The aim of this programme is to maintain and develop cultural partnerships between Scotland and EU nations at a pivotal moment in the cultural landscape […]
Roanna Gonsalves
In the inaugural year of our exchange programme with Varuna, the National Writers House of Australia, we are pleased to welcome Roanna Gonsalves to Cove Park. Roanna is the author of The Permanent Resident (University of Western Australia Publishing) which won the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Multicultural Prize 2018, and was longlisted for the Dobbie […]
Ida Lindgren
In February 2019 Cove Park was awarded funding from British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland to develop a new residency programme produced in collaboration with partners based in EU nations. The aim of this programme is to maintain and develop cultural partnerships between Scotland and these nations at a pivotal moment in the cultural landscape […]
Natalia Papaeva
Cove Park is delighted to host Natalia Papevea this summer on a residency developed in partnership with TENT Rotterdam. Based in Rotterdam, Natalia is a performance artist and a recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Natalia was the recipient of the TENT Academy Awards in 2018 for her film ‘Yokhor’ (2018), […]
Madeleine Virginia Brown
This residency is part of the nationwide RSA Residencies for Scotland Programme. Madeleine Virginia Brown is a visual artist based in Glasgow. Her practice is primarily performance based and privileges the human body, exploring the tensions between embodied subjectivity and the body as spectacle. Her work explores themes of narcissism, voyeurism and exhibitionism; as well […]
Andrea Coyotzi Borja
In February 2019 Cove Park was awarded funding from British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland to develop a new residency programme produced in collaboration with partners based in EU nations. The aim of this programme is to maintain and develop cultural partnerships between Scotland and these nations at a pivotal moment in the cultural landscape […]
Emmie McLuskey & Kimberley O'Neill
For the second year, Cove Park is pleased to host the curators of the Artists’ Moving Image Festival organised by Tramway and LUX Scotland. The Festival takes place on 16 and 17 November this year and will be programmed by former Cove Park residents and visual artists Emmie McLuskey and Kimberley O’Neill and London-based visual […]
Lou Kramskoy
This partnership with University College Birkbeck in London brings an outstanding emerging writer, and winner of Birkbeck’s Sophie Warne Memorial essay prize to Cove Park. This is a unique opportunity for a new writer to have their first professional residency and work on their own project among other professional artists in Cove Park’s interdisciplinary environment. […]
Catherine Woodward
Cat Woodward is a feminist modern lyric poet and a graduate of The University of East Anglia. Her PhD is in robot and lyric voice and her doctoral research was funded through a CHASE studentship. Cat’s first collection, Sphinx, was published by Salò, press in 2017. Her second collection Blood. Flower. Joy! is due from Knives, Forks and Spoons […]
Skye Reynolds & Jo Clifford
Building on a partnership which began in 2017, The Work Room and Cove Park are collaborating again in 2019 to bring opportunities for The Work Room members to undertake residencies at Cove Park, for themselves and collaborators from other disciplines. The residencies are intended to bring a new dimension to a creative practice or practices. […]
Rosanna Irvine & Kian McEvoy
Building on a partnership which began in 2017, The Work Room and Cove Park are collaborating again in 2019 to bring opportunities for Work Room members to undertake residencies at Cove Park for themselves and collaborators from other disciplines. The residencies are intended to bring a new dimension to a creative practice or practices. This […]
Camille Arnould Walachowski
After the success of Poppy Nash’s 2018 residency and exhibition, The Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Design and Architecture, in partnership with Cove Park, will once again offer an opportunity for emerging crafts makers, designers and architects in 2019. This fully-funded residency aims to support research and the development of new work, leading to a six-week exhibition within the Review Gallery at The […]
Hsiang-Ying Kuo
Hsiang-Ying Kuo (born 1981) is a writer and translator based in Taiwan. This residency is part of our Literature and Translation programme and is made possible with support from the Cultural Division of the Taipei Representative Office in the UK. The residency will allow Hsiang-Ying Kuo to finalise a new project initiated in January 2019: translating […]
Beldina Odenyo
The National Theatre of Scotland’s Starter Programme offers eight funded residencies of £2,500 to help artists develop their skills, networks, and explore a new idea for a piece of theatre. We are delighted to welcome Beldina Odenyo to Cove Park for a residency which will allow her to focus on her project Heir of The Cursed – a […]
Caitlin Hegney
This new residency is developed in partnership with Fife Contemporary, an independent visual arts and craft organisation, based in St. Andrew’s, Fife. As part of the organisation’s New Maker programme, this residency is designed to support a recent graduate. Caitlin Hegney, a graduate of Glasgow School of Art, is the recipient of the residency which will […]
Stuart Brown
Cove Park is delighted to be working for the first time with Sound and Music, the national charity for new music. Sound and Music’s major Composer Development programme – New Voices – will allow drummer / composer / producer Stuart Brown to embed himself within Cove Park’s multidisciplinary residency programme for 2 weeks this spring. […]
Penny Boxall
We are delighted to welcome Penny Boxall, First Prize winner of this years’ prestigious Women’s Poetry Prize. Cove Park, in partnership with The Poetry Book Society (PBS) and Mslexia will host Penny for one week. You can read more about Penny’s work here. The prize is judged by UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and alongside this residency, Penny will […]
Tricky Hat
Tricky Hat is a Glasgow-based theatre company who takes a multimedia approach to participatory and professional work. They make theatre with and about people who live on the margins of society, and work with them to find a creative and credible voice to create high quality, collaborative, cross-arts events. Tricky Hat launched The Flames in […]
Ruth Little
Writer/dramaturg Ruth Little returns to Cove Park with maker-curators Amanda Thompson, Deirdre Nelson, Ben Wilde, Claire Cunningham, Karine Polwart and Janine Harrington, for a period of place-based research on the craft and practice of thresholding. Together Ruth and the maker-curators will develop the framework for a cross-arts international residency in 2020. The Shorelines residency will […]
Magnetic North
Magnetic North is an award-winning theatre company based in Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 1999 by theatre and opera director Nicholas Bone. Magnetic North have brought their Space / Time residencies to Cove Park for the past 4 years. The 5-day residency is part of Magnetic North’s Artist Development programme; a creative retreat for experienced artists […]
Claricia Parinussa Kruithof, Emma Jayne Park
Building on a partnership which began last year, The Work Room and Cove Park are collaborating again in 2018 to bring opportunities for Work Room members to undertake residencies at Cove Park for themselves and collaborators from other disciplines. The residencies are intended to bring a new dimension to a creative practice or practices. This […]
Anoushka Havinden
Cowall is one of Argyll and Bute’s most striking peninsulas and is visible from Cove Park. This series of residencies, for artists based on the peninsula, has been developed in partnership with the Cowal-based organisation Dunoon Burgh Hall. Anoushka Havinden is an artist and writer. Born in London in 1976 and raised in the North East […]
Hammaad Chaudry
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s New Playwrights Awards provide an important professional development opportunity for five early career playwrights living in Scotland who have a genuine commitment to writing for the theatre. Awarded playwrights come to Cove Park for a week’s research and writing residency. Hammaad Chaudry’s work has been staged both in the UK and US, including at The Royal […]
Erika Fatland & Kari Dickson
The MacLehose International Writer & Translator Residency celebrates international writing and translation . In July we welcome the Norwegian author Erika Fatland for a four week residency. Erika will be working on her new book The Border. Her translator Kari Dickson, from Edinburgh, will be joining her for part of the residency, giving the two vital […]
Catriona Lexy Campbell
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s New Playwrights Awards provide an important professional development opportunity for five early career playwrights living in Scotland who have a genuine commitment to writing for the theatre. Awarded playwrights come to Cove Park for a week’s research and writing residency. Catriona Lexy Campbell is from the Isle of Lewis but spent much of her life in […]
Naomi Sheldon
Naomi Sheldon is an actress and emerging writer. Thanks to Paines Plough, Naomi is at Cove Park for the first time to develop a new piece of theatre. Naomi’s debut play Good Girl was in association with the Old Red Lion, London, and premiered there in July 2017. It then played Vault Festival and Trafalgar Studios. Good Girl received […]
Victoria Beesley
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s New Playwrights Awards provide an important professional development opportunity for five early career playwrights living in Scotland who have a genuine commitment to writing for the theatre. Awarded playwrights come to Cove Park for a week’s research and writing residency. Victoria is a playwright, performer and Artistic Director of Terra Incognita. She has written My Friend Selma and Invisible […]
Sandi Kiehlmann
Cowal is one of Argyll and Bute’s most striking peninsulas and is visible from Cove Park. This series of residencies, for artists based on the peninsula, has been developed in partnership with the Cowal-based organisation Dunoon Burgh Hall. Sandi Kiehlmann studied Embroidered and Woven Textiles at Glasgow School of Art. She works in drawing, print making, […]
Helen Mort
Helen Mort is a poet based in Sheffield. She has published two collections with Chatto & Windus, Division Street (2013) and No Map Could Show Them (2016). Her first novel Black Car Burning is forthcoming in 2019. Helen has also written for stage and for radio. She teaches Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Helen won the 2017 […]
Graham Paul Donovan
Graham Paul Donovan is an experimental fiction writer who lives and works in London. He has worked in the past as a sound engineer, a touring musician, a composer and sound designer for film and television, and is currently finishing his first novel whilst tending bar in the city.
Andrew Thompson
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s New Playwrights Awards provide an important professional development opportunity for five early career playwrights living in Scotland who have a genuine commitment to writing for the theatre. Andrew Thompson trained and worked as an actor for ten years for companies including The National Theatre, Sheffield Theatres and ITV. He began writing short plays and […]
Soozie Turmeau
Cowal is one of Argyll and Bute’s most striking peninsulas and is visible from Cove Park. This series of residencies, for artists based on the peninsula, has been developed in partnership with the Cowal-based organisation Dunoon Burgh Hall. Soozie Turmeau is a jeweller. She trained at Edinburgh College of Art 1995 with BA degree in […]
Maryam Hamidi
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s New Playwrights Awards provide an important professional development opportunity for five early career playwrights living in Scotland who have a genuine commitment to writing for the theatre. Those receiving awards come to Cove Park for research and writing residencies of one week each. Maryam is a multi-disciplinary writer, theatre maker and actor. She co-wrote the Amnesty […]
Poppy Nash
Cove Park and The Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture & Design, have developed a new opportunity for emerging designers, architects and craft practitioners. This residency aims to support the research and the development of new work leading to an exhibition within the Review Gallery at The Lighthouse. Cove Park is delighted to welcome Poppy Nash as the inaugural […]
Jackie Stevenson
Cowal is one of Argyll and Bute’s most striking peninsulas and is visible from Cove Park. This series of residencies, for artists based on the peninsula, has been developed in partnership with the Cowal-based organisation Dunoon Burgh Hall. Jackie Stevenson graduated from Glasgow School of Art (Drawing and Painting) in 1978. In 2003 she opened a […]
Cassice Last
Cassice Last is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of St Andrews. She received her Masters in Film Studies from the University of St Andrews. As a tutor, she has taught Key Concepts in Film Studies and currently teaches Film Culture, Theory and Entertainment at the University of St. Andrews. Her current research interrogates the […]
Hardeep Pandhal
Visual artist Hardeep Pandhal will be at Cove Park for two weeks to focus upon new work commissioned by Glasgow International. Pandhal will present a new installation, ‘Self-Loathing Flashmob’ at Glasgow’s Kelvin Hall from 20 April – 7 May 2018. The work of Pandhal carries a satirical and acerbic cartoonish drawing style, employed across different […]
Alex Bygrave
The RCA / Eddie Mundy ‘Brilliant’ Award supports an exceptional graduate from the Royal College of Art (RCA) Design Products course. The residency is a partnership between Cove Park, the RCA and the Eddie Mundy ‘Brilliant’ Award. Since studying product design at Brunel University in 2009, Alex Bygrave has practised as a design engineer. Working within […]
Sara Shaarawi
Sara Shaarawi is a playwright, translator and performer from Cairo. Based now in Glasgow, her first play Niqabi Ninja was developed after a staged reading at Mayfesto 2014 at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, and after receiving funding from Creative Scotland to put on a work-in-progress showing at Platform, Easterhouse, Glasgow. She took part in Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s 2015 […]
Catherine Street
This residency has been developed in partnership with the National Galleries of Scotland and is connected to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art’s series of exhibitions NOW, which bring together the best of contemporary art being made in Scotland with work by leading international artists. We are pleased to welcome the Edinburgh-based artist Catherine […]
Bronwen Sleigh
Cove Park’s first Printmaking Residency will take place in November 2017. This pilot residency has been developed in partnership with Glasgow Print Studio. Following a call for applications to members of Glasgow Print Studio, the residency was awarded to Bronwen Sleigh. Bronwen works in printmaking, drawing and sculpture. Taking inspiration from a range of urban […]
Writers’ Centre Norwich Translation
2016 saw the launch of an exciting partnership between Cove Park and Publishing Scotland, bringing translators of books by Scotland-based writers to Cove Park for a four-week residency. In October 2017, and in partnership with Writers’ Centre Norwich, we are pleased to welcome 12 translators to take part in a one-week programme. The participating translators […]
Megan Rooney
The Canadian visual artist Megan Rooney was based at Cove Park in March 2017 and returns for a second residency in September this year. On behalf of MAP (a non-profit organisation dedicated to the discussion and support of artist-led publishing and production), the Glasgow-based curator and writer Louise Briggs has invited Megan to present a major […]
Louise Giovanelli
Louise Giovanelli’s residency is part of a new programme for early-career writers, makers/designers and visual artists based throughout the UK. The artists will work in parallel on site for three weeks on their own projects during Cove Park’s summer programme and will also have the opportunity to work alongside other national and international artists at […]
Grzegorz Stefanski
The Ivan Juritz Prize was established in 2014 to celebrate the creative explosion of the modernist era and reward art that seeks to ‘make it new’. Postgraduate students throughout Europe either from traditional academic disciplines or from creative courses are invited to submit texts, films, musical compositions, virtual documentation of artwork, excerpts of moving image […]
Linda Florence
At the heart of this residency is a local heritage project which will contribute to the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Rosneath Primary School in Argyll & Bute. The project will be led by previous Cove Park resident Linda Florence and is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Florence is a surface pattern designer […]
Marcus Mac an Tuairneir
Marcas Mac an Tuairneir (Mark Spencer Turner) writes poetry, prose, drama and journalism in Scottish Gaelic and English, and splits his time between Edinburgh and his hometown of York. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen, graduating with MA Hons Gaelic and Hispanic Studies in 2008 and MLitt Irish and Scottish Literature in 2010. […]
Ian Spink
The Work Room and Cove Park are collaborating in 2017 to pilot an opportunity for Work Room members to undertake a residency at Cove Park for themselves and collaborators from other disciplines. The residencies are intended to bring a new dimension to a creative practice or practices. We are delighted that the first of The […]
Sahej Rahal
In 2016 Cove Park and CCA Glasgow invited Indian artist Sahej Rahal to spend ten weeks in Scotland this year. Known for his sculptural installations, films and performances, Sahej will develop a new body of work during an 8 week residency at Cove Park. Following this residency, the artist will be based at CCA where he […]
Eve Leigh
During the summer of 2017, Cove Park will work with The Royal Court Theatre, London, and host a number of playwrights connected to its internationally renowned programme. The third participating artist is Eve Leigh. Eve is a playwright, theatremaker, and dramaturg. She trained at the Royal Court Young Writers’ Programme and Studio Group and the National Theatre’s […]
Charlene James
During the summer of 2017, Cove Park will work with The Royal Court Theatre, London, and host a number of playwrights connected to its internationally renowned programme. The second artist to participate is Charlene James. Charlene is an award winning playwright and trained as an actress at Birmingham School of Acting and at The School at […]
Simon Longman
During the summer of 2017, Cove Park will work with The Royal Court Theatre, London, and host a number of playwrights connected to its internationally renowned programme. The first participating artist is Simon Longman. Simon is a playwright from the West Midlands. He was a member of the Royal Court Young Writer’s Group in 2013 and in […]
Andy Jelčić
2016 saw the launch of an exciting partnership between Cove Park and Publishing Scotland, bringing translators of books by Scotland-based writers to Cove Park for a four-week residency. Whilst here the translators will have the opportunity to meet the author of the their books and other professionals in their field, as well as take part […]
Laura Maniero
2016 saw the launch of an exciting partnership between Cove Park and Publishing Scotland, bringing translators of books by Scotland-based writers to Cove Park for a four-week residency. Whilst here the translators will have the opportunity to meet the author of the their books and other professionals in their field, as well as take part […]
Gemma Elwin Harris
The Birkbeck / Sophie Warne Fellowship for an emerging writer supports an outstanding graduate of the Birkbeck Creative Writing MA at a critical juncture in their writing life. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, within the context of a […]
Isabella Martin & Naomi O Kelly
This residency places professional artists in special educational needs departments of schools in the Argyll & Bute region. It is part of Cove Park’s Hands On programme supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Artists are based at Cove Park for three weeks, during which time they can concentrate on developing their own practice as well as […]
Daphne De Sonneville
Cove Park has worked with the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities on a pilot project to bring a PhD student here for 1 week’s research residency. 2017’s successful candidate is Daphne de Sonneville. Daphne de Sonneville (born in Amsterdam, currently living in Glasgow) is an artist and writer working with written fiction, performances, […]
Annie Peel, Beatrix A Wood, Frank McIlhinney, Ian Cameron, Kate Clayton, Lesley Wilson
In February 2017, the first week-long Older Artists’ Lab takes place at Cove Park. This residency is led by Luminate in partnership with Magnetic North and a-n The Artists Information Company. The Lab aims to provide a nurturing space for early-career artists, aged 50 and over, working in all art forms. It is facilitated by […]
Anita Vettesse
Anita Vettesse Trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow and has a BA in Dramatic Art. During this residency she is writing four short plays based on love to be performed over one evening. Anita also writes comedy and was part of the BBC Writers Room ‘sit-com’ residency at Cove Park in 2017. […]
Alison McNeil, Sasha Savaloni & Stuart MacRae
Enterprise Music Scotland is dedicated to life-long learning and development and has a general remit for artistic excellence in Scotland. Through the Residency Project, EMS provides emerging Scottish based chamber ensembles with unique development opportunities. The Residency Project provides the opportunity for the successful ensemble to perform, collaborate and develop as a group, whilst receiving […]
Andy McGregor
Each year, Playwrights’ Studio Scotland send their New Playwrights Award winners to Cove Park. Andy McGregor is one of Playwright Studio Scotland Awardees 2016. Andy is a theatre director, writer and composer. He trained at the University of Glasgow and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he is now a visiting lecturer for the BA […]
BBC Writersroom
A group of female comedy writers will be working closely with BBC Writersroom and BBC Comedy on sitcom ideas and development. We are pleased to host the following individuals as part of the programme this week: Morna Pearson, playwright – http://www.knighthallagency.com/client/morna-pearson/ Lorna Martin, writer – https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/mar/26/healthandwellbeing.booksonhealth Adura Onashile, playwright and actor – @AduraOnashile Fern Brady, comedian and […]
Magnetic North
Magnetic North are back at Cove Park for their annual ‘Space / Time Retreat’. Co-facilitated by Nick Bone and Alice McGrath, the artists selected for this year’s residency are Mamoru Iriguchi (theatre-maker) Maria Oller (theatre-maker) Kirsty Whiten (visual artist) Flore Gardner (visual artist) Anthony Green (composer) Space / Time Retreat aims to bring mid-career artists, […]
Creative Carbon Scotland
Creative Carbon Scotland are, for the first time, partnering with Cove Park for their annual Arts & Sustainability Residency. This year the open call drew applications from over 100 artists from a variety of disciplines; 8 were selected and are as follows: Reem Alkayyem Reem Alkayyem is a Syrian born and educated architect. She has […]
Clara Pezzuto
This year sees the start of an exciting partnership between Cove Park and Publishing Scotland which brings translators of books by Scotland-based writers to Cove Park for a four-week residency. Whilst here the translators will have the opportunity to meet the author of the their books and other professionals in their field, as well as […]
Bea Last
In 2016 Cove Park is working in partnership with Upland on the development of two new residencies. Upland is a visual art and craft development organisation based in Dumfries and Galloway and central to its mission is the support and promotion of artists and makers in its region. Following an open call to its members, we are […]
Kate Griffin
2016 sees the launch of a major new strand of residences at Cove Park for translators and translation projects. Kate Griffin from Writers Centre Norwich is an Advisor to the Programme and our first resident. She will spend a week at Cove Park meeting translators joining us in September and pursuing her own creative projects. […]
Anne Brauner
This year sees the start of an exciting partnership between Cove Park and Publishing Scotland which brings translators of books by Scotland-based writers to Cove Park for a four-week residency. Whilst here the translators will have the opportunity to meet the author of the their books and other professionals in their field, as well as […]
Thomas Leech
The RCA / Eddie Mundy “Brilliant” Award Fellowship supports an exceptional graduate from the Royal College of Art (RCA) Design Products course with the time and space to further develop ideas established at college within a stimulating environment of professional artists working in a diverse range of mediums. The residency is a partnership between Cove […]
Robert Akam
The Birkbeck / Sophie Warne Fellowship for an emerging writer supports an outstanding graduate of the Birkbeck Creative Writing MA at a critical juncture in their writing life. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, within the context of a […]
SImone Kenyon
The Jerwood Residencies 2016 support the creation of new work and new ways of working by Scottish artists working collaboratively. Generously funded by the Jerwood charitable trust since 2002, four residencies of two weeks each focus on research and experiment rather than development of a specific project and take place within the interdisciplinary setting of […]
Morag Macpherson
In 2016 Cove Park is working in partnership with Upland on the development of two new residencies. Upland is a visual art and craft development organisation based in Dumfries and Galloway and central to its mission is the support and promotion of artists and makers in its region. Following an open call to its members, we are […]
Ellie Griffiths, Verity Standen, Greg Sinclair
The Jerwood Residencies 2016 support the creation of new work and new ways of working by Scottish artists working collaboratively. Generously funded by the Jerwood charitable trust since 2002, four residencies of two weeks each focus on research and experiment rather than development of a specific project and take place within the interdisciplinary setting of […]
Zillah Bowes
Now in its fourth year, the partnership between Royal Holloway and Cove Park brings an emerging writer from Royal Holloway’s Creative Writing MA to Cove Park for a four week residency. The 2016 Fellow is Zillah Bowes. Zillah is a writer and filmmaker based in the UK. She started writing poetry in moments snatched whilefilming […]
Andy Campbell
The 2016 Emerging Architect residency has been developed in partnership with NVA to support an architect or designer working in architecture/the built environment at a relatively early stage in their career. Cove Park and NVA offer this new residency at an exciting time for both arts organisations. Having just undertaken a major capital development project, […]
Tim Cooper, Susie Leiper, Samuel Tongue
The Jerwood Residencies 2016 support the creation of new work and new ways of working by Scottish artists working collaboratively. Generously funded by the Jerwood charitable trust since 2002, four residencies of two weeks each focus on research and experiment rather than development of a specific project and take place within the interdisciplinary setting of […]
Ross MacKay, Suzie Miller, Jim Harbourne
The Jerwood Residencies 2016 supported the creation of new work and innovative ways of working by Scottish artists in a collaborative setting. Generously funded by the Jerwood Charitable Trust since 2002, these two-week residencies focused on research and experimentation within the interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park. Velvet Evening Séance was co-conceived by Ross MacKay and […]
Victoria Mackenzie
Victoria MacKenzie moved from Brighton to Scotland in 2007 to pursue an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews, before completing a PhD which examined how contemporary poets engage with science. Writing prizes include the Robert McLellan Poetry Award and the Ruth Rendell Short Story Prize, and her work is published in […]
Sarah Urwin Jones
Sarah Urwin Jones is an arts journalist and classical music writer who writes regularly for a number of national newspapers and magazines. She has been The Times’ Classical Music Critic for Scotland for many years and writes fortnightly on visual art for The Herald. She was formerly Theatre Critic for The Independent and has contributed as a subject specialist to Chambers Biographical […]
Rachel Plummer
Rachel Plummer was born in London, grew up in East Anglia and Paris, and has spent most of her adult life in Edinburgh, where she lives with her husband and two young children. She has had poetry published in magazines, including Agenda, RAUM, Skylark Review and Dactyl. She is a Troubadour prizewinner and was runner up in the […]
P M Freestone
P.M. Freestone writes YA fiction, has published a handful of short stories (including work in anthologies from Penguin Books), and is now developing several novel-length projects. She is a member of Scottish PEN and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. A self-proclaimed nerd, since childhood she has been intrigued with all things speculative—her […]
Robert McGinty
Robert McGinty grew up in Fife and studied English Literature and History in Edinburgh and Information Studies in Aberdeen. He now lives in Edinburgh with his wife and ten-month-old son. He works full time and writes in the evenings whenever the baby is asleep. His first novel, Hell Money, was shortlisted for the 2005 Wow Factor, a competition […]
Marcas Mac an Tuairneir
Marcas Mac an Tuairneir writes poetry, prose, drama and journalism, in Gaelic and English and splits his time between Inverness and his hometown of York. Marcas is at Cove Park working on the second draft of a new play. Marcas’ début collection, Deò was published in 2013 by Grace Note Publications. A second, Lus na Tùise, is expected in […]
Karen Ashe
Karen Ashe was brought up in Airdrie and now lives in Glasgow with her family and crazy dog, Scout. Her first ever short story took 2nd place in the South China Morning Post short story competition and she went on to complete the MLitt in Creative Writing at Glasgow University. Karen now spends Monday evenings in […]
Robert Neil Fraser
Robert Neil Fraser is a first time novelist, working on a thriller called ‘Bamako’, set in the West African country of Mali. The book tells the story of the plotting and execution of a bank heist by a group of disaffected white adventurers, whose legitimate attempts to find fortune have failed. The story and characters […]
Scottish Book Trust
Cove Park is delighted to welome 5 writers in residence, here as part of the New Writers’ Award from the Scottish Book Trust. In 2006 Greg Whelan won the Sloan Prize for Writings in the Scottish Vernacular and has since had short stories published in various collections such as New Writing Scotland,Almost An Island: A Fife Anthology, […]
Rosanna Hall
Rosanna Hall is a Glasgow-based, female playwright who has been writing for around ten years. She attained a Masters degree in Writing for Theatre and Performance from the University of Edinburgh in 2012 and enjoys working in a variety of ways including devising, collaboration, performance poetry and solo structured playwriting projects. Recently she has been […]
Portfolio Preparation Weekend
Working in partnership with Comar on the Isle of Mull, Cove Park is pleased to host its first Portfolio Preparation Weekend, enabling students from Argyll & Bute to develop work for their portfolios in advance of making applications for further education or work purposes. This intensive course has been organised with Comar’s Creative Apprentice, Beth […]
Gill Robertson, Kirsty Whiten, Mark Storor
In 2010, in partnership with the Arches Theatre, National Theatre of Scotland conceived a talent development programme, the Auteurs Creative Development Programme. As part of the fourth year of activity on that programme, National Theatre of Scotland has offered three ‘midcareer’ artists (i.e. those leading successful companies or freelance careers, renowned for delivering quality work […]
Deb Jones
Deb Jones is Welsh and lives in Glasgow. She has recently been awarded a New Playwrights’ Award by Playwrights’ Studio Scotland and is at Cove Park to work on a new play “KINGDOM OF ENDS” (working title). Deb’s writing work includes: THE HEAD IN THE JAR at Oran Mor for their Play, Pie and Pint; […]
Magnetic North
Space/Time is a creative retreat for experienced artists from any art form that asks the question ‘how does an artist keep developing?’ Developed in partnership with Magnetic North, the programme will be led by Artistic Director Nicholas Bone and Alice McGrath. Further information is available here and names of all the participating artists will be […]
Marco Catalao, Michelle Ferreira, Silvia Gomez, Kirean Hurley, Stef Smith, Fiona Sturgeon-Shea
Cove Park will host Playwrights’ Studio Scotland again this year for a one-week programme bringing together playwrights from both Scotland and Brazil: Stef Smith and Kieran Hurley (Scotland) will work alongside Marco Catalao, Michelle Ferreira and Silvia Gomez (Brazil). This residency is part of a wider exchange programme between Scotland and Brazil developed as a […]
Luke Pell, David Shearing, Ben Whyman
The Jerwood Residencies 2015 support the creation of new work and new ways of working by Scottish artists working collaboratively. Generously funded by the Jerwood charitable trust since 2002, four residencies of two weeks each focus on research and experiment rather than development of a specific project and take place within the interdisciplinary setting of […]
Julia Gray
The Birkbeck / Sophie Warne Fellowship for an emerging writer supports an outstanding graduate of the Birkbeck Creative Writing MA at a critical juncture in their writing life. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, within the context of a […]
Gemma Roper
2015 is the first year Cove Park have hosted the RCA / Eddie Mundy “Brilliant” Award Fellowship. It supports an exceptional graduate from the Royal College of Art (RCA) Design Products course with the time and space to further develop ideas established at college within a stimulating environment of professional artists working in a diverse range […]
Nic Green, Yas Clark, Naomi Pinnock
The Jerwood Residencies 2015 support the creation of new work and new ways of working by Scottish artists working collaboratively. Generously funded by the Jerwood charitable trust since 2002, four residencies of two weeks each focus on research and experiment rather than development of a specific project and take place within the interdisciplinary setting of […]
James Nixon
The Royal Holloway Emerging Writer Fellowship brings an outstanding student on the Creative Writing MA to Cove Park for a residency of up to four weeks. Here they are given the space and time to develop their ideas in a community of professional artists. The opportunity for the Fellow to extend their professional network is […]
Brody Condon
Visual artist Brody Condon will be based at Cove Park throughout March. Condon is working with Kilcreggan-based visual artist Christine Borland on ‘Circles of Focus’: a forthcoming exhibition and series of events at CCA, Glasgow, from 4 April – 17 May. The exhibition presents – for the first time – the results of an ongoing […]
Daniel Poller
Visual artist Daniel Poller will be based at Cove Park for three weeks in December 2014. A recent graduate from Fine Art Photography at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, this will be the first time Cove Park has awarded an Emerging Visual Artist residency to an international artist. This residency has been created with […]
Jenny Knotts
Jenny will be joining us this December through Cove Park’s ongoing partnership with the Playwrights’ Studio. Jenny recently completed an MSc in Writing for Theatre and Performance at the University of Edinburgh which culminated in a rehearsed reading of her play Bulldog at the Traverse Theatre during the Edinburgh Fringe 2013. Other theatre credits include: […]
Molly Innes
Molly will be joining us this October through Cove Park’s ongoing partnership with the Playwrights’ Studio. Molly has been an actress for over twenty years. In 2013 she started writing plays and became one of the Traverse 50. Three of her short plays have been given rehearsed readings (two at the Traverse and one at […]
New Music Scotland
In October 2014 New Music Scotland will run a residential professional development opportunity for composers at Cove Park. Composers are often by the nature of their work somewhat isolated, with few opportunities for interaction with other composers or for continuing professional development. The aim of this course is to give composers the opportunity to work […]
Johnny Barrington
Johnny attended the Glasgow School of Art and the Gothenburg School of Photography & Film. He went on to direct experimental short films and several pop promos, which screened on MTV. His recent short films include the Scottish BAFTA nominated Trout (2006) which screened at festivals worldwide including Sundance and Terra Firma (2007), a UK Film Council/Film4 funded Cinema […]
Steven Brett & Kate Gowar
Steven and Kate come to Cove Park this August through the Jerwood Performing Arts residencies, programmed by Fuel Theatre. In a new development for 2014, former participants will each nominate emerging artists new to both Cove Park and Fuel to take up this year’s residency opportunities. The nominated artists will work with Fuel either on […]
Caroline Horton
Caroline comes to Cove Park this August through the Jerwood Performing Arts residencies, programmed by Fuel Theatre. In a new development for 2014, former participants will each nominate emerging artists new to both Cove Park and Fuel to take up this year’s residency opportunities. The nominated artists will work with Fuel either on a specific […]
Carrie Foulkes
Now in its second year, the Fellowship offers an outstanding student on Royal Holloway’s Creative Writing MA a four week residency during the summer programme. The writer has unfettered space and time to develop their craft whilst in the company of professional artists and writers across all disciplines. This years Royal Holloway writing fellow is […]
Molly Naylor
Molly comes to Cove Park this August through the Jerwood Performing Arts residencies, programmed by Fuel Theatre. In a new development for 2014, former participants will each nominate emerging artists new to both Cove Park and Fuel to take up this year’s residency opportunities. The nominated artists will work with Fuel either on a specific […]
Hannah Walker
Hannah comes to Cove Park this August through the Jerwood Performing Arts residencies, programmed by Fuel Theatre. In a new development for 2014, former participants will each nominate emerging artists new to both Cove Park and Fuel to take up this year’s residency opportunities. The nominated artists will work with Fuel either on a specific […]
Louise Welsh & Jude Barber
Cove Park is delighted to be a partner with Louise Welsh and Jude Barber’s Empire Cafe project, and we will be hosting the poets Fred D’Aguiar, Millicent Graham, Dorothea Smartt Sasenarine Persaud and Malika Booker. THE EMPIRE CAFÉ – A welcome discussion The Empire Café is a week-long event exploring Scotland and the North Atlantic slave […]
Made In China
Made in China come to Cove Park this July through the Jerwood Performing Arts residencies, programmed by Fuel Theatre. In a new development for 2014, former participants will each nominate emerging artists new to both Cove Park and Fuel to take up this year’s residency opportunities. The nominated artists will work with Fuel either on […]
Phoebe Davies
Phoebe comes to Cove Park this June through the Jerwood Performing Arts residencies, programmed by Fuel Theatre. In a new development for 2014, former participants will each nominate emerging artists new to both Cove Park and Fuel to take up this year’s residency opportunities. The nominated artists will work with Fuel either on a specific […]
Rachel Mars
Rachel comes to Cove Park this June through the Jerwood Performing Arts residencies, programmed by Fuel Theatre. In a new development for 2014, former participants will each nominate emerging artists new to both Cove Park and Fuel to take up this year’s residency opportunities. The nominated artists will work with Fuel either on a specific […]
Hanna Tuulikki
Hanna comes to Cove Park this June through the Jerwood Performing Arts residencies, programmed by Fuel Theatre. In a new development for 2014, former participants will each nominate emerging artists new to both Cove Park and Fuel to take up this year’s residency opportunities. The nominated artists will work with Fuel either on a specific […]
Tom Frankland
Tom comes to Cove Park this June through the Jerwood Performing Arts residencies, programmed by Fuel Theatre. In a new development for 2014, former participants will each nominate emerging artists new to both Cove Park and Fuel to take up this year’s residency opportunities. The nominated artists will work with Fuel either on a specific […]
Laura Mugridge
Laura comes to Cove Park this June through the Jerwood Performing Arts residencies, programmed by Fuel Theatre. In a new development for 2014, former participants will each nominate emerging artists new to both Cove Park and Fuel to take up this year’s residency opportunities. The nominated artists will work with Fuel either on a specific […]
Jamie Wood
Jamie comes to Cove Park this June through the Jerwood Performing Arts residencies, programmed by Fuel Theatre. In a new development for 2014, former participants will each nominate emerging artists new to both Cove Park and Fuel to take up this year’s residency opportunities. The nominated artists will work with Fuel either on a specific […]
Racheal Ofori
Racheal Ofori comes to Cove Park this June through the Jerwood Performing Arts residencies, programmed by Fuel Theatre. In a new development for 2014, former participants will each nominate emerging artists new to both Cove Park and Fuel to take up this year’s residency opportunities. The nominated artists will work with Fuel either on a […]
Luke Pell
Luke Pell comes to Cove Park this June through the Jerwood Performing Arts residencies, programmed by Fuel Theatre. In a new development for 2014, former participants will each nominate emerging artists new to both Cove Park and Fuel to take up this year’s residency opportunities. The nominated artists will work with Fuel either on a […]
Laura Tapsfield
Now in its fourth year the Birkbeck / Sophie Warne Fellowship offers an outstanding graduate of the Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck the opportunity of a four-week residency at Cove Park, with space and time to write and the company of professional artists across all disciplines. Previous Fellows include Genevieve Herr and Paul Martin. This […]
Jo Bannon
Jo Bannon comes to Cove Park this June through the Jerwood Performing Arts residencies, programmed by Fuel Theatre. In a new development for 2014, former participants will each nominate emerging artists new to both Cove Park and Fuel to take up this year’s residency opportunities. The nominated artists will work with Fuel either on a […]
Geoffrey Farmer
Cove Park, in partnership with the Scottish Print Network and Edinburgh Printmakers, will host the Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer in June this year. Working between Edinburgh and Cove Park over a period of three weeks, this will be the artist’s first visit to Scotland. During this residency he will develop new work in print with […]
Alex Frost
Following a research residency in 2013, the Glasgow-based artist Alex Frost has been commissioned by Cove Park to develop a new, temporary work for its site in 2014. Alex will be on residency again this spring to continue his research and develop the work for presentation this summer. This commission is part of Generation, a nationwide […]
Quinn Latimer
The American writer and curator Quinn Latimer will be based at Cove Park for one week in April. This residency supports her research towards ‘Mood is Made/Temperature is Taken’, an exhibition programmed by Glasgow Sculpture Studios as part of Generation’s Associate Programme. The exhibition includes work by Studio holders Rachel Adams, Jennifer Bailey, Sarah Forrest, […]
Scottish Book Trust
Each year the Scottish Book Trust bring new writers to Cove Park to develop their work and experience the unfettered space and time that Cove Park offers. We look forward to welcoming them again in April.
National Theatre of Scotland
The National Theatre of Scotland will return to Cove Park for a fourth year this autumn. Over a period of one month, individuals connected to the NTS will focus upon the development of new scripts and future productions. This programme is supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. This year’s participants are: Oliver Emmanuel, Adrian Howells, Mark Jeary, […]
Lucy Mercer
Cove Park is delighted to welcome Lucy Mercer as the inaugural Royal Holloway Writing Fellow. This Fellowship offers an outstanding student on Royal Holloway’s Creative Writing Programme a four-week residency alongside professional artists across all disciplines. The residency is a opportunity for an emerging writer to develop their own work in a professional residency setting, […]
Genevieve Herr
This partnership with University College Birkbeck in London brings an outstanding emerging writer, and winner of Birkbeck’s Sophie Warne Memorial essay prize to Cove Park for four weeks. This is a unique opportunity for a new writer to have their first professional residency and work on their own project among other professional artists in Cove […]
Josh Bitelli
This two-week residency, has been created through the generous support of an anonymous donor, specifically to support a crafts person in the design and creation of new work. Josh Bitelli is a product designer and a recent graduate from the Design & Craft BA at University of Brighton. He makes research based work which responds […]
Taro Izumi
Cove Park, with support from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, and in partnership with Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT), has developed a residency exchange programme for UK-based and Japanese visual artists and makers/designers. The programme was launched in 2011 with a one-month residency for the Hiroshima-based visual artist Takahiro Iwasaki. In 2012, the Glasgow-based artists Nick Evans, […]
Birkbeck Writing Masterclass
In 2013 we welcome Birkbeck, University of London to Cove Park for their inaugural masterclass for graduates of the Creative Writing MA. Led by novelist Russell Celyn Jones, nine writers will be taken on a creative journey over 7 days, including workshops, one-to-one tutorials and a retreat weekend. Find out more about those who are […]
Mariana Castillo Deball
Cove Park’s 2012/2013 Henry Moore Fellowship was organised in partnership with CCA Glasgow and Chisenhale Gallery, London. The Fellowship will enable Berlin-based visual artist Mariana Castillo Deball to develop new work, co-commissioned by CCA, Cove Park and Chisenhale, for two connected solo exhibitions in both venues in 2013.
Artists in Schools
This month long residency places professional artists in special educational needs departments of schools in the Argyll & Bute region. It is supported by the St James Place Foundation, The Moffat Charitable Trust, Babock Community Investment Group and The Merchant House of Glasgow. Artists are based at Cove Park for four weeks, during which time they […]
New Writers Awards Residency
The Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awards are a unrivalled opportunity for writers living in Scotland who are committed to developing their craft. The categories are across fiction, poetry, Scots and Children and Young Adult, and in 2013 the winners will also come on retreat to Cove Park.
National Theatre of Scotland
The National Theatre of Scotland will return to Cove Park for a third year this autumn. Over a period of one month, individuals connected to the NTS will focus upon the development of new scripts and future productions. This programme is supported by the Esmée Fairbarin Foundation. The participating artists are: Davey Anderson, Colin Bell, […]
Menika van der Poorten
In partnership with UZ Arts, Glasgow, Cove Park has organised a three-week residency for the Sri Lankan photographer Menika van der Poorten. Menika has worked in the field of photography for more than 20 years. Based in Colombo, she has exhibited her work internationally and has also taught photography both in London and in Sri […]
Brody Condon
New York based visual artist Brody Condon will be at Cove Park for two weeks to continue research on a collaboration with Scottish 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 with Glasgow Sculpture […]
Brian Chikwava
In 2014, Scotland will be hosting the Commonwealth Games. This residency series, supported by Creative Scotland’s Creative Futures brings artists to Scotland from the African Commonwealth during the UK’s Olympic year with the aim of creating cultural links between the two events and forging new artistic relationships into 2014. The residencies are between four and […]
Sadie McKenzie
This partnership with University College Birkbeck in London brings an outstanding emerging writer, and winner of Birkbeck’s Sophie Warne Memorial essay prize to Cove Park for four weeks. This is a unique opportunity for a new writer to have their first professional residency and work on their own project among other professional artists in Cove […]
Mariana Castillo Deball
Cove Park’s 2012 Henry Moore Fellowship was organized in partnership with CCA Glasgow and Chisenhale Gallery London. The Fellowship will enable the Berlin-based visual artist Mariana Castillo Deball to develop new work during a two-part residency at Cove Park. This work will be shown in two connected solo exhibitions at CCA and Chisenhale Gallery, opening in […]
Syl Cheney Coker
Each year, Cove Park hosts at least one international writer on a residency of up to twelve weeks. This year the residencies are between four and six weeks long and are for professional artists in mid-career to develop their own projects within the supportive interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park. Syl Coker’s residency also brings together […]
Mariama Khan
Each year, Cove Park hosts at least one international writer on a residency of up to twelve weeks. This year the residencies are between four and six weeks long and are for professional artists in mid-career to develop their own projects within the supportive interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park. Mariama’s Khan’s residency also brings together […]
Fuel Theatre
A continuing relationship with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation underpins Cove Park’s performing arts residencies. They are run in partnership with Fuel Theatre Services through whom high-profile artists make critically-acclaimed work at Cove Park, whether destined for the Edinburgh Festival or across the UK. 2012 Jerwood Residents are: James Houston Peter Reder Valerie Buhagiar Alex Byrne Kjell Moberg […]
Jack Mapanje
In 2014, Scotland will be hosting the Commonwealth Games. This residency series, supported by Creative Scotland’s Creative Futures brings artists to Scotland from the African Commonwealth during the UK’s Olympic year with the aim of creating cultural links between the two events and forging new artistic relationships into 2014. The residencies are between four and six weeks […]
Ellen Banda-Aaku
In 2014, Scotland will be hosting the Commonwealth Games. This residency series, supported by Creative Scotland’s Creative Futures brings artists to Scotland from the African Commonwealth during the UK’s Olympic year with the aim of creating cultural links between the two events and forging new artistic relationships into 2014. The residencies are between four and […]
Kristin Linklater
Freeing the Poet’s Voice is a unique masterclass for poets devised and led by world renowned voice coach Kristin Linklater. Now running for the second year, it brings nine selected poets together to work with Kristin on developing their own authentic speaking voice. Poetry readings are an essential component of the poet’s writing life, and […]
Nick Evans, Mary Redmond, & Katy West
Cove Park launched its Japan/UK Residency Exchange programme in 2011 with a month-long residency at Cove Park for the Hiroshima-based artist Takahiro Iwasaki. In 2012, three Scottish artists will travel to Japan to undertake six-week residencies with Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT): Nick Evans, Mary Redmond and Katy West. The artists all share a long-standing interest […]
Takahiro Iwasaki
Cove Park is committed to the development of international partnerships as a means of providing residency opportunities for both international and national artists in Scotland and abroad. With support from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, and in partnership with Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT), Cove Park has developed a residency exchange programme for UK-based and Japanese artists. […]
Fuel Theatre
A continuing relationship with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation underpins Cove Park’s performing arts residencies. They are run in partnership with Fuel Theatre Services through whom high-profile artists make critically-acclaimed work at Cove Park, whether destined for the Edinburgh Festival or across the UK. 2011 Jerwood Residents are: Josie Long Nic Green The Clod Ensemble Fevered […]
Freeing the Poet’s Voice
Kristin Linklater, the world renowned voice coach, who has worked on voice and performance skills with the likes of Donald Sutherland, Sigourney Weaver and Bill Murray came to Cove Park in April 2011. She has developed her own method, called Freeing the Natural Voice, which is now taught all over the world. It is not […]
Katrina Brown
George Shaw
Graham Eatough
Graham Fagen
Born Glasgow, 1966. Lives and works in Glasgow Graham Fagen studied sculpture at Glasgow School of Art from 1988 – 1988 and went on to study for an MA in Art and Architecture at Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury. Fagen works in a variety of ways to create artworks that examine what he […]
Margaret Atwood
Abraham Cruzvillegas
In 2008, Abraham Cruzvillegas was the recipient of Cove Park’s first Henry Moore Fellowship. This six-month residency enabled the artist to develop work for a major solo exhibition at Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts in the same year. Work produced for this exhibition was acquired by Tate Modern in 2010 and will be on display […]
Inua Ellams
Christina Eilliot
Rebecca Hanna-Grindall
Jenny Paton
Melanie Wilson
Inua Ellams
Inua Ellams is a word and graphic artist based in London. He was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to the UK as a teenager. His work merges visual art, spoken word and theatre, and he is known for his iconic imagery, beauty and attention to detail. He writes about his upbringing, the experience […]
Mairi Macleod
Mairi Macleod (b.1996) is a Gaelic writer from Glasgow, Scotland. A graduate of the University of Glasgow, she completed an undergraduate degree in Geography and a master’s degree in Earth Futures. Her creative work echoes her academic interests, critically engaging with humanity’s relationships with space, place, and the complex thing we call ‘nature’. As a […]
Rikke Luther
Rikke Luther is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. Her current work explores the new interrelations created by environmental crisis as they relate to the Earth System. Those relation compass themes related to landscape, language, politics, financialisation, law, biology, geology and economy, that expressed in drawn images, photography and film. Over the course of two years (2022-24), Rikke Luther will embark on […]
Nikhil Vettukattil
Nikhil Vettukattil (b. 1990, Bengaluru, India) Artist and writer who lives and works in Oslo. Using a range of media such as sound, installation, performance, text, sculpture, and video, his practice questions modes of representation and image-making processes in their relation to lived experiences. While in residence at Artica Svalbard this Autumn and over the […]
Rikke Luther
Rikke Luther is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. Her current work explores the new interrelations created by environmental crisis as they relate to the Earth System. These relations encompass themes related to landscape, language, politics, financialisation, law, biology, geology and economy, that are expressed in drawn images, photography and film. Since 2022, Rikke Luther has worked on a research project entitled More […]
Rikke Luther
Rikke Luther is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. Luther’s work has been presented in Biennales and Triennales [such as Venice, Singapore, Echigo-Tsumari, Auckland, Göteborg and Sao Paulo]; museums [such as Moderna Museum, Kunsthaus Bregenz, The New Museum, Museo Tamayo, Smart Museum]; exhibitions [such as Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art, 48C Public.Art.Ecology, Über Lebenskunst and […]
Nikhil Vettukattil
Nikhil Vettukattil (b. 1990, Bengaluru, India) Artist and writer who lives and works in Oslo. Using a range of media such as sound, installation, performance, text, sculpture, and video, his practice questions modes of representation and image-making processes in their relation to lived experiences. While in residence at Narsaq International Research Station he will develop […]
Victoria MacKenzie
In Autumn 2019, Scottish novelist, short story writer and Cove Park former resident Victoria MacKenzie will spend four weeks at Varuna in Australia as part of the Cove Park / Varuna Residency Exchange Programme. Victoria MacKenzie lives in the East Neuk of Fife and teaches creative writing for the Open College of the Arts and […]
Nicola White
We are delighted to announce the writer taking part in the 2022 residency exchange between Cove Park in Scotland and Varuna, the National Writer’s House in New South Wales, Australia. This residency allows one writer from Scotland to spend a month at Varuna and one writer from Australia to enjoy a month at Cove Park. […]
Jan Carson
In Autumn 2022, Cove Park former resident Jan Carson will spend four week at Varuna as part of the Cove Park / Varuna Residency Exchange Programme. Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her debut novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears and short story collection, Children’s Children, were published by Liberties […]
Nia Davies
Nia Davies was awarded a place on the Academi Gymreig mentoring scheme for writers in 2008. Polaris is her first novel, inspired by Arctic Scandinavia. Her poems have been published in several magazines and anthologies and her first pamphlet will be published by Salt in autumn 2012. Nia also writes non-fiction pieces such as country […]
Stevie Ronnie
Stevie Ronnie is a poet and artist and a successful participant in Cove Park’s Fielding Programme. His pamphlet length collections include The Thing To Do When You Are Not In Love (SAND / Red Squirrel, 2008) and Another Voice (Hatton Gallery / Tyne and Wear Museums, 2011). He has recently received awards from New Writing […]
Jacqueline Saphra
Jacqueline Saphra organises the successful ‘Shuffle’ poetry readings in London and is one of the editors of UK poetry journal Magma. Her first collection The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Festival First Collection Prize. She has a whole previous incarnation as a playwright and was also a very successful participant in […]
Edward Mackay
Edward Mackay is a poet living and working in east London. His work has been published in journals and anthologies, including Stand and The Rialto. His poetry was shortlisted for the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize (2011), commended in the Emerge Escalator competition (2010) and shortlisted for an Eric Gregory Award (2009). A pamphlet is forthcoming […]
Anna Selby
Anna Selby was born in Shropshire in 1982. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia, is a specialist in international poetry and is co-editor of The World Record, an anthology of contemporary world poetry forthcoming from Bloodaxe, with a foreword by Simon Armitage. Anna’s poetry has been […]
Kate Potts
Kate Potts was born in South London in 1978. She worked in music publishing before training as a teacher. Her pamphlet Whichever Music (tall-lighthouse, 2008) was a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award. In 2009 she received an Arts Council award towards her first collection Pure Hustle (Bloodaxe, 2011). […]
Michael Kavanagh
Michael Kavanagh is a Canadian who has lived in England and Scotland for over ten years. His poetry for children has been published in the anthologies Read Me At School (MacMillan) and Michael Rosen’s A-Z, The Best Children’s Poetry From Agard to Zephaniah (Puffin). He edits the children’s poetry magazine The Scrumbler.
Andrew Philip
Andrew Philip was born in Aberdeen in 1975 and grew up near Falkirk and studied linguistics at Edinburgh University. The Ambulance Box, (Salt 2009) included several poems that relate to his son’s death shortly after birth. He is interested in Scots and Gaelic as well as English.
Helen Evans
Helen Evans graduated from the Creative Writing M.Litt. at the University of St Andrews in 2010, and worked as a tutor on its Creative Writing Summer Programme in 2011 and 2012. Her poem Night Crossing was placed third in the 2010 Manchester Cathedral International Religious Poetry Competition. She is one of the writers for Sphinx […]
Alison Winch
Alison Winch was featured poet in issue 51 of Magma, and has been published in The Rialto, Iota, South Bank Poetry, among others. She is currently based in London and reads regularly on the poetry scene. She enjoys collaboration and is putting together her first collection.
Cath Drake
An Australian from Perth lured to London in 2001, Cath Drake has been published in anthologies and magazines in UK, Australia and US. She has performed her work in cafes, bookshops, theatres, festivals, at Southbank, Tate Modern, and for unsuspecting passers by. Cath runs writing workshops to charge up creativity and has experience working with […]
Kayo Chingonyi
Kayo Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987, moving to the UK in 1993. He holds a BA in English Literature from The University of Sheffield and an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London and works as a writer, events producer, and creative writing tutor. His poems have been published in […]
Martin Kratz
Martin Kratz was born in the UK, but his mothertongue is German. His poetry has appeared in The Rialto and Magma Poetry. He collaborates regularly with the composer Leo Geyer, and their work together includes the chamber opera The Mermaid of Zennor. He lives in Manchester where he is currently writing a PhD on the […]
Sophie F Baker
Sophie F Baker has had her poetry published in various magazines including Poetry London, The Rialto, Iota, Horizon Review, Smiths Knoll, Ferment Zine and Pomegranate, and she has performed at venues around the country including Morden Tower, StAnza, Durham Book Festival and Ledbury Poetry Festival. She is the recipient of an Andrew Waterhouse Award from New Writing North (2010) and an Eric Gregory […]
Zayneb Allak
Zayneb Allak has spent most of her working life since university as a teacher, for a short while in the UK but mostly overseas – in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. She started writing three years ago, for an MA in Creative Writing, experimenting with fiction and poetry. She is now doing a PhD […]
Peter Daniels
Peter Daniels has won several poetry competition including the Arvon (2008) and TLS (2010). As Queer Writer in Residence at the London Metropolitan Archives in winter 2011/12 he wrote the historically accurate and obscene “Ballad of Captain Rigby”: an illustrated pamphlet of it is in preparation. He has had non-obscene pamphlets from Smith/Doorstop and HappenStance, […]
Emilia Beatriz
Emilia Beatriz is the artist based in Scotland awarded a residency at Villa Arson as part of the Magnetic 3 programme. Emilia Beatriz (they/elle) is an artist and access worker from Puerto Rico’s diaspora, based in Glasgow. Informed by Aurora Levins Morales’ ‘historian as healer’ methodology, Emilia’s films weave historical and speculative narratives – grounded […]
