Awarded — The Bridge Awards Residencies

The Bridge Awards Residency was launched in 2023 to support artists based in Scotland recovering from breast cancer. The inaugural residency was awarded to Fife-based artist Susanne Nørregård Nielsen.

Building on the success of this first individual residency, a one-week group residency was introduced in May 2024 and awarded to five artists. Now in its fourth year, Cove Park is pleased to offer five fully funded placements in the 2026 group residency which includes music and wellbeing sessions led by Lesley Howells, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Maggie’s Lead Psychologist and members of the Scottish Ensemble.

We are grateful to The Bridge Awards for making this residency possible, and to Maggie’s and Scottish Ensemble for their support.

A wooden and metal suspension bridge, bedded amongst green ferns and shrubs, looking across Cove Park's site to trees in full leaf, a pond, and the hills of Cowal Peninsula.

The Bridge at Cove Park (photography, Alan Dimmick)

Residencies

Jo Clements

Jo Clements is a researcher and writer based near Dingwall. They are interested in all the wonderous ways that people use the past to shape their present, metaphors and cancer, and dandelions. Jo is currently working on a non-fiction, book-length writing project tentatively titled ‘Dandelion’ that intertwines exploration of historical metaphorical and other uses of […]

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Lori Delaney

Lori Delaney is a Scotland‑based theatre maker, performance artist, and researcher with 18 years of professional practice experience facilitating drama workshops across educational and professional settings. She has recently completed a practice‑based SGSAH/AHRC‑funded PhD at the University of Glasgow, where her research uses participatory methods to explore how theatre can disrupt normative breast cancer discourse […]

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Shona Brown

Shona Brown is a Glasgow-based flautist and music producer whose work explores atmospheric and emotionally resonant sound worlds for flute, voice and electronics. Her solo practice blends contemporary classical, ambient and electronic music with subtle folk influences, creating spacious compositions shaped by breath, texture and stillness. She has released solo work and performed nationally, including […]

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Gillian Shirreffs

Gillian Shirreffs has been writing about illness for nearly two decades. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2007, she began writing while on bedrest. What began as a coping mechanism grew into something more—an urgent, unsentimental collection of work about what it means to live in a body that won’t behave. Gillian’s debut novel, Brodie, was […]

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Deniz Uster

Deniz Uster is a Scotland-based (b.1981-Istanbul) multidisciplinary artist researcher. Spanning across geological and scientific inquiry, Uster’s art practice is permeated by anthropological and historical research to form pluralistic social narratives, using science fiction as her primary discipline. A fictional shift in nature within these ‘filmic’ narratives forms the foundation for alternative social structures, cultures, economic […]

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Susanne Nørregård Nielsen

Susanne Nørregård Nielsen is a Fife-based Danish artist. Susanne is interested in illuminating art works central to the 20th century canon, to provoke new thinking on the impact of artists practice using feminine gendered materiality. Most current work is inspired by the influence of textiles on early 20th century visual art, in particular abstract painting […]

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Jo Arksey

Jo Arksey is an artist and creative facilitator who relishes working across various media. Although essentially abstract, her individual pieces evoke something recognisable. Reclaiming discarded materials through papermaking has for Jo, been a process of discovery and evolution, combining pulp with text, hair, metal and print in sculptural works and installations. Threads running through Jo’s […]

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Jackie Bell

After a career in health and a personal health related stocktaking of life goals, Jackie Bell returned to education as a mature student, completing a HND in Contemporary Art at Edinburgh College and then a BA Hons in Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 2023. She was awarded one of the John Kinross […]

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Diane Devlin

Diane Devlin was born in Leith, Edinburgh, in 1956 and grew up in a working class family with a love for music and storytelling. A former nurse, she is passionate about amplifying marginalised voices, especially older women. She has worked on community driven film projects tackling health stigma around smear tests and mammogram uptake. A […]

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Alison Clifford

Alison Clifford is a Glasgow-based artist whose work investigates the interstitial—or in-between—through digital art. She is interested in processes of translation between different forms of media, considering the new creative possibilities that result from what is lost or gained through such interpretation. Her recent work explores how natural phenomena can influence the relationship between sound […]

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Catherine Simpson

Catherine Simpson is the author of one novel and two memoirs. Her third memoir Hold Fast: Motherhood, My Autistic Daughter and Me is due for publication later in 2025. Her first memoir When I Had a Little Sister: The Story of a Farming Family Who Never Spoke, was described as: ‘Superb’ (Sunday Times) ‘Riveting’ (The […]

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Moira McPartlin

Moira McPartlin has been writing for over twenty-five years. Her debut novel The Incomers, published by Fledgling Press in 2012, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award. Over the next seven years Moira wrote her speculative fiction Sun Song Trilogy novels (also published by Fledgling Press). The novels, set in […]

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Ros Borland

Ros Borland worked in film production for many years, moving up the ranks from runner to producer. Her first feature film as producer (with Catherine Aitken), Afterlife, starring Kevin McKidd, won the Standard Life Audience Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2003 and was released theatrically in the UK in 2004. Her second […]

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Abbey Craig

Abbey Craig is a creative practitioner, teacher, and facilitator, passionate about people, community, and lifelong learning. Abbey’s professional practice and choice of work has recently been influenced by her own need to be well and the health and well-being needs expressed by the families, individuals, and professionals she meets when working in educational settings, residential […]

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Krissy Stewart

Krissy Stewart was born and raised in California and attended California State University Long Beach, where she developed an interest in art and design. Krissy earned a Design and Applied Arts degree from Edinburgh College of Art, where she honed her printmaking skills, primarily focusing on interior architecture. Recently completing her MSc in Art Psychotherapy, […]

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Susanne Nørregård Nielsen

Susanne Nørregård Nielsen is a Fife-based Danish artist. Susanne is interested in illuminating art works central to the 20th century canon, to provoke new thinking on the impact of artists practice using feminine gendered materiality. Most current work investigates the influence of textiles on early 20th century visual art, in particular abstract painting with a […]

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Events, News and Resources

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Ways of Seeing

Event Engagement 13 May 2026

The Bridge Awards Residencies 2026

Deadline: 12 January 2026

A wooden and metal suspension bridge, bedded in amongst dark green ferns and shrubs, looking across Cove Park's site to trees in full leaf, a pond, and the hills of Cowal Peninsula.

Bridge Awards Residencies 2025

Deadline: 28 February 2025

A wooden and metal suspension bridge, bedded amongst green ferns and shrubs, looking across Cove Park's site to trees in full leaf, a pond, and the hills of Cowal Peninsula.

The Bridge Awards Residencies 2024

Deadline: 20 May 2024

The Bridge Awards Residency 2023

Deadline: 20 March 2023

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