Partnership — RCS Contemporary Performance Practice

Cove Park is pleased to expand its valued partnership with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland by offering a dedicated group residency in 2024 and 2025 for all graduating students of the Contemporary Performance Practice (CPP) programme.

From 2021-2023, Cove Park supported one recent CPP graduate each summer, providing space and time for creative development. Past residents include Sally Charlton, Nell O’Hara, and Margot Conde Arenas. The group residency marks a significant evolution of this partnership, offering a collaborative opportunity for the 2024 and 2025 cohorts to further their artistic practice in a supportive and inspiring environment.

This residency reflects Cove Park’s aims to support the next generation of artists at a pivotal stage in their careers.

RCS CPP Cohort, Summer 2024

Residencies

Shaaray Sharif

Shaaray Sharif (she/her) is a performance maker and interdisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in postcolonial performance and explores power, identity, and resistance. Combining sound, movement, and text, Shaaray creates performances that challenge societal norms and amplify marginalised voices. Rooted in autobiographical material and framed through feminist, queer, and decolonial perspectives, Shaaray’s practice invites audiences […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Dianne McConnell

Dianne McConnell (she/her) is a contemporary performance artist whose work emerges from spiritual inquiry rooted in lived experience. Through the intersection of dance, ritual and autobiography, she offers ritual acts of becoming, where the stage becomes a site of healing, invocation, and transformation. Dianne says, ‘I am here to offer art to the void that […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Louise Van Tassel

Louise is a sound and performance artist based in Glasgow. Inspired by pop, noise, punk and opera, she makes musically infused absurdist theatre. In her most recent projects, she has explored ways to talk about/fight against imposed silences and selective erasures of history. She likes to work with other humans, machines, field recordings, inanimate objects […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Gemma Legan

Gemma Legan (she/her) is a Glasgow-based performer, deviser, facilitator and musician from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire. She is a graduate from BA (Hons) Contemporary Performance Practice from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Within her work, she often uses writing, Scots language, disruption, juxtapositions and contradictions to explore culture, individual and collective identity, non-conformity and barriers to […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Noa Ferder

Noa Ferder (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist creating work at the intersection of performance and visual art. Using detailed and provocative aesthetics, her work focuses on the distortion of the everyday life to constantly challenge conventional shapes and definitions and shine light on cultural, societal and internal gaps. As a bilingual artist working globally (currently […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Amy Clark

Amy Clark (she/her) is a performance maker, arts producer, and facilitator originally from Cumbria, currently based in Glasgow. She creates work that is experimental in both form and content, and that sits across the disciplines of contemporary performance, experimental theatre and choreography. Using the body as a starting point, her work is often durational and […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

laurie elliott

laurie elliott (they/them) is an artist and facilitator who works with the mediums of performance and film. within their work they are interested in drawing attention to the significance of all things. their work involves explorations of time, connection, tenderness, presence, and absence. their work is often ecological in nature, looking to the natural world […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Bee McQueen

Bee McQueen is a multidisciplinary artist and facilitator working at the intersection of live art, poetry, participatory performance, and socially engaged practice. Her work is rooted in embodiment, intuition, and a commitment to what Johanna Hedva calls “rituals of refusal”—gestures that carve space for the sacred within systems of exhaustion, alienation, and control. A core […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Tabitha Dearie

Tabitha Dearie is a performance maker from Glasgow, Scotland, who weaves together text, body-based performance, and film to create politically and emotionally charged works. Her practice is deeply rooted in collaboration and community, often drawing from personal experience to explore questions of identity, her own and that of others. Through this lens, she examines what […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Mathilde Darmady

Mathilde Darmady is an artist ripped in half.  One part of his feral soul lives in the Flows of the North where his ecological practice invests in community.  He is working on a biodiversity project with NatureScot, rewilding landscape, flora, fauna and folk. Mathilde’s cosmopolitan half lies, queerly enough, in Glasgow. Drag, film, narrative and […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

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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. […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

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, […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

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 […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

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 […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

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 […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice

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