Jenna Corker is a contemporary dance artist based in Edinburgh and has been making, teaching and supporting dance work across Scotland for the past three years. Jenna is… read on
Yolanda McKean has been based in Edinburgh since 2011, graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 2015. Her work incorporates various drawing,… read on
James Mitchell is a writer and performer of science fiction, magical realism and true stories. He graduated from the Birkbeck Creative Writing MA in 2015, and since then… read on
Wen-Hsi 文曦 Harman was born in Taipei, Taiwan and is a ceramic artist currently living and working in Bristol. She also is the member of the UNESCO International… read on
Claire-Louise Bennett's fiction and essays have appeared in a number of publications including The White Review, The Stinging Fly, gorse, Harper's Magazine, Vogue Italia, Music & Literature, and The New York… read on
SERAFINE1369 is the London based artist and dancer Jamila Johnson-Small. SERAFINE1369 works with dancing as a philosophical undertaking, a political project with ethical psycho-spiritual ramifications… read on
RL Wilson is an artist living and working in Cumbria. Their research and practice is multidisciplinary, collaborative and socially embedded; focusing on read on
The Flames is a performance company for creative people aged 50 plus, who wish to create high quality, collaborative work.
Tricky Hat first established The Flames in Autumn 2016… read on
Beverley Hood’s work interrogates the impact of technology and science on the body, relationships and human experience, through digital media and performance arts projects. She works collaboratively, developing… read on
Jane Hunter is a visual artist based in Paisley. She makes work which speaks intimately of our relationship with and experience in the natural world. Considering how… read on
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… read on
Laura Spark is a visual artist applying animation across theatre, installation, live performance and film.
Originally from Ayrshire Laura is now based in Liverpool where she works… read on
Deborah Jackson is Lecturer in Contemporary Art and Art Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Her research explores the foundations for, and mutual influence of, art,… read on
Nikki Kane is an independent curator, a current PhD candidate at Edinburgh College of Art, and lecturer in New Media Art at UWS. Her AHRC-funded research there centres… read on
Pamela Carter is a writer for performance, director and dramaturg based in London. She has been making work in theatre, opera, dance, and the visual arts for over… read on
Lydia Beilby is an artist working with 8mm and 16mm photochemical film, archival ephemera and text. Lydia's practice explores the camera apparatus and projection medium as both a… read on
Laurie Motherwell is a playwright from Glasgow. During his residency at Cove Park he will be working on his play I Very very Love Caramel Bar, written as… read on
Dani Burlison (she/her) is a writer, teacher, activist and Gen X mom based in Sonoma County, California. She is the creator/editor of an anthology, “All of Me: Stories… read on
Jana Kühne is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in London where she is studying a BA in Fine Art at the Art Academy London. Jana uses art as… read on
Manuela Gernedel works in painting, drawing and sculpture. Her art is inspired by the psychedelic appearance of everyday life, confessional writing and her experience of motherhood… read on
Chay Osler is a writer of fiction for children and young people, living in Bedfordshire, England. He holds a BA (Hons) in Theatre Studies with Creative Writing and… read on
Duncan MacLeod is a composer whose practice utilises both acoustic and electronic forces. His output encompasses concert music, sound installations, music for stage, interdisciplinary collaborations, and participatory arts.… read on
Audrey Osler is a writer and scholar, living in the UK but working transnationally. While at Cove Park she will focus on her book Where are you from?… read on
I am a South African artist and Fine Art student and having been living in Scotland for about 10 years. My practise centres around extracting imagery from the… read on
Amble is a composer and sound artist who uses disability theory, body sensor technology, spoken word interviews and electronics to create unique sound works.
She is interested in the… read on
Kim Simpson is an artist and cultural strategist, curator, facilitator and coach bringing a disability-led approach to the arts sector. In recent years, Kim’s work has been focused… read on
Ariane Jackson is a Glasgow based visual artist. Working predominantly in painting, her work looks at the translation of sensory experience, using painting in a haptic and… read on
Toria Banks is a disabled writer, director and dramaturg. In 2018, she co-founded Hera to make inclusive music theatre by gender-minoritised artists, with… read on
Laura Cantliff is a dance artist and disability advocate, from Stoke on Trent and currently based in Devon. She studied dance at De Montfort University, and has an MA… read on
Melanie Hering is a London based drama and creative writing facilitator. She loves making art with people and hearing their stories.
Generating frameworks that have the flexibility to be… read on
Fran Quinlan has an intensely embodied process driven drawing practice, with a quiet ritualised character, exploring materiality and the transformative quality of paper; its visual and actual weight.
Practical… read on
Sacha Airlie
Sacha (b. 1978, Glasgow) makes paintings, installations and films. She develops these in response to an audio, image making and writing practice that has more recently focused… read on
Charlotte Smithson is an artist and creative producer based in Manchester, whose work blends design, craft and botany. A fascination with nature is evident… read on
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.… read on
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… read on
Amy Pennington makes work that uses humour to connect human experiences and socio-political issues. They use everyday materials and accessible processes to challenge the binaries of ‘high and… read on
Fiona McGovern is an art historian, writer and curator based in Berlin. Her research, curatorial and educational practice center on (artistic) exhibition history and theory, ethics of curating… read on
Patricia Haemmerle, born in Switzerland
PhD (1996), University of Zurich. (Dissertation: ‘Silhouette of Time. Photography and Reality’). 1997 Move with son (14) to New York. General Studies Certificate Program… read on
Richard Luke is a Glasgow-based multi-instrumentalist composer and producer who specialises in minimal piano, orchestral strings, glitches and beats. His music is used in award-winning films (including the… read on
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… read on
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… read on
Martyn Riley is a North-London based Sound Artist and Musician, originating from Derbyshire. His Sound Art practice specialises in the manipulation of sonic landscapes and acoustic ecology to… read on
Originally from Northern Italy, Luca Serra has been living in Scotland since 2014. He has dedicated himself to writing for about ten years and has so far written… read on
Bonnie Radcliffe is a writer whose work explores storytelling and the sea, women and water, nature, motherhood and folklore. She loves exploring character, especially the seemingly mundane or… read on
Tracey’s latest psychological thriller, The Perfect Holiday, will be published by Boldwood Books in April 2022, under the name TJ Emerson. Before writing fiction, she worked in theatre… read on
Farah Abdessamad is an essayist, literature and art critic at work on several long-form projects including a novel and a collection of essays. Farah's writings commonly thread on… read on
Sarah Trounce grew up in East Anglia and studied English at Birmingham University, before moving to London. She worked as a manager in the design industry for ten… read on
I am a geographer, printmaker, emerging artist, and writer. I maintain a strong focus on the places and spaces where we pause to connect with our environment, and… read on
Sheila MacNeill is Glasgow based artist working in a range of paint based mediums. Her work represents interactions, reflections, memories of environments, exploring the boundaries between the natural… read on
Hannah Brackston is a socially engaged artist based in Glasgow, creating site specific artworks responding to the relationships between people and their environment. Born in… read on
Alison Burnley is a creative producer with a focus on supporting communities and emerging artists to share their stories through theatre, ceremony and song. Whether reimagining folk tales… read on
Lauren is an arts writer, critic, lecturer and Chair of Cove Park's Board of Trustees. She recently served as Chair of CCA Glasgow for seven years — and… read on
Rachel Briscoe is co-founder lead artist for digital story studio Fast Familiar. Fast Familiar make artworks which are participatory, playful and political. We… read on
Vittoria’s latest play is with Kabosh, exploring the experiences of female combatants in the FARC & the Troubles in NI. This was produced in late… read on
Amy Conway is a Theatre Maker, Actor, Facilitator, Playwright, Director, Clown and Civil Celebrant based in Glasgow who experiments with form and collaborates with a… read on
John Darvell creates thought-provoking, darkly cinematic, twisted scenarios which are firmly rooted in the here and now. His choreography explores human realities, laying bare individual vulnerabilities,… read on
Laura Edwards is the artistic director of Loop Theatre an inclusive physical theatre company who present devised site-specific and street theatre. A huge focus of Loops… read on
Dylan Gray was the winner of the Verity Bargate Award 2017 for Citysong, subsequently co-produced by Soho Theatre, the Abbey Theatre, and Galway International Arts Festival.… read on
Andrea Ling is an interdisciplinary artist (director, writer, dramaturg & practitioner) who advocates for social change and connection through art. Her work falls within theatre, installation,… read on
Glasgow-based Saffy Setohy is a dance artist working across choreography, performance, participatory work, facilitation, mentoring and movement direction in an expanded field. Interdisciplinary collaboration is… read on
Michael Donkor studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, undertook a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway and now teaches English Literature at St Paul's Girls' School in… read on
UNFIX is an arts festival based in Scotland programming work concerned with ecological crisis, climate change and hyper-capitalism. UNFIX started in Glasgow (Scotland) in 2015 and now run… read on
Helen Whittaker joined Barley Studio in 1998 and is an award-winning designer and maker of stained-glass windows and metal sculpture, directing restoration painting alongside her new design work.… read on
Simon is a writer, a printmaker and a multi-award-winning producer of children’s animation, including ‘Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids’ and ‘Wolves, Witches & Giants’.
His printmaking practice dates back… read on
Julie Kennedy writes poetry and fiction and teaches part-time in a secondary school. During her short time at Cove Park, she will work on a poetry sequence around… read on
I am a Glasgow-based visual artist, forming my practice through exploration and utilisation of diverse materials as reflections of my inner, and outer, environment. When forming dialogues between… read on
In October 2021, I attended an online presentation “Glacial Narratives” hosted by the Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust, North Uist, about artistic responses to climate change. This inspired me to… read on
Raised on the family croft on the island of South Uist, Rona is part of the lost generation of Gaelic speakers, where many were discouraged from connecting with… read on
Saoirse Anis is a visual artist and writer based in Dundee. Their practice is multidisciplinary and spans across film-making, sculpture, performance and writing. She is currently working towards… read on
Jane Rogoyska is a writer. She is the author of three books: Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa (Jonathan Cape, 2013), a novel, Kozłowski (Holland House, 2019, Longlisted for… read on
Brass Art: Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz and Anneke Pettican
Brass Art is the longstanding collaborative practice of Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz and Anneke Pettican. Within their practice they work between drawing, sculpture, moving image, 3D + 4D… read on
Titus Davies' artwork includes sculptural installation, photography and collage. They are interested in using ruptures and matter out of place to explore the interface between the built environment,… read on
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… read on
Morven Macbeth is an actor, theatre maker and facilitator based in Scotland. She is an Associate Practitioner with UK theatre company imitating the dog, whose work has, for… read on
Maria Falconer is a photographic practitioner, teacher and writer. A Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Maria lectures and runs photography workshops across the UK and in Europe.
Maria’s… read on
Jill Skulina is an artist of diverse skills, knowledge and experience. She creates sculptural work using ceramics, drawing, printmaking, painting, textiles and found objects. In recent months Jill… read on
Jill O'Sullivan is a Glasgow-based multi-instrumentalist/singer/songwriter who writes and performs across the worlds of popular music, theatre and dance.
O’Sullivan was a founding member of Sparrow and the Workshop… read on
Ailie Robertson is a multi-award-winning Scottish composer and musician who has been commissioned to compose works by some of the worlds’s most prestigious cultural institutions including the BBC… read on
Leah Storrs-Fisher is a full time artist from Columbus, OH, USA. She graduated from the Columbus College of Art & Design in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine… read on
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… read on
Cove Park's annual programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. This… read on
Yin Aiwen, Petra Bauer, Binna Choi, Mijke van der Drift, Fabiana Ex-Sousa:, Annette Krauss, Kirsten Lloyd, Nat Raha, Jenny Richards, Frances Stacey, Marina Vishmidt
'Kitchen Conversations' is a short retreat hosted at Cove Park with the international research group Feminism Art Maintenance (F.A.M.) – Yin Aiwen, Petra Bauer, Binna… read on
Maria Howard, Kirsten Body, Jana Emburey, Fadzai Mwakutuya, Mary Land, Celine Mcilmunn, Alex Patience, Shona Wardrop, Anne Milne, Jodi Le Bigre, Alexandra McEwan
The Scottish Artists Union delivers a programme of bespoke workshops, courses and events throughout the year. The Learning Programme creates opportunities for all members to undertake training… read on
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… read on
Laura Hynd’s practice centres around transformation through the experience of photographing. She works with photography and is currently researching settling, purification and women’s bond with intuition, through practical… read on
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,… read on
Zero Waste Design Online is an international collective that develops online educational resources in the field of zero waste design and systems thinking for fashion. We seek to… read on
Julian Stanford is an emerging painter in oils. A few years ago, against much good advice, he gave up his career in the film & cinema industries to… read on
An explorer and lover of the natural world, the underwater world and the ever changing elements; Amy takes inspiration for her paintings from her travels, recently Iceland and… read on
Visual artists Kirsty Stansfield and Jeni Pearson met while working together in a hospice, creatively supporting patients and families living with a life-limiting illness. We found a shared… read on
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… read on
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… read on
Deirdre Nelson a maker creating textiles which explore humour, place and social history. She partners traditional techniques with contemporary processes such as digital print in creating work not… read on
Daniel is a multi-disciplinary artist and potter from Bolton, based in Manchester. Primarily working with clay, he has exhibited works across the UK and Ireland, as well as… read on
Rebecca Buckley is an artist, community art facilitator and writer who was born in London. Rebecca graduated with a BA in Writing and Publishing with Drama and spent… read on
Ese Ighorae is an actress, playwright, facilitator, keen to explore the world issues and write political theatre through humour that challenges our perceptions. Ese Ighorae studied BA… read on
Tim Fab-Eme is an engineer and poet who experiments with poetic forms on the themes of environmental and social justice. He is the Issue 7 poetry editor of… read on
Edd Carr is an experimental artist from North Yorkshire, UK, working primarily with moving image and sustainable processes to explore our anxieties around the ecological crisis… read on
CAAS: Rohini Devasher, Sue Fairburn, Barbara Imhof, Susmita Mohanty
City As A Spaceship (CAAS) is a new way of thinking about humans and their relationships with their habitats, transporters and their environment, an intelligent way of designing… read on
Molly Astley is an artist, poet and musician based in London. Her work is concerned with nature, the body, and the porous boundary between the two. Lead… read on
Dylan Bonnar is a Writer, Performer, Composer and Lyricist based in the West Coast of Scotland. His training includes an HND in Music and a Bachelor’s degree with… read on
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… read on
Dr Myles-Jay Linton is a Bristol-based psychologist, artist and facilitator.
In 2019 Myles was awarded a Vice Chancellors Fellowship at the University of Bristol where he leads a programme… read on
Radha D’Souza is a critical scholar, social justice activist, barrister, and writer from India. Together with visual artist Jonas Staal, she is the co-producer of Court for Intergenerational… read on
Combining sculpture, painting and drawing, Dean Knight constructs open-ended narratives that intersperse the primitive, the comedic, the seductive and the grotesque. A self-conscious and tongue-in-cheek take on… read on
Julia is a Liverpool-based theatre and film-maker. Her work is accessible, playful, political and thoughtful. She tells female-focused, under-represented stories, often exploring questions where mainstream debate and discourse… read on
Sarah Calmus is an interdisciplinary artist, programmer, creative director, arts advocate and creator of large-scale immersive installations and provocations, working across a multitude of mediums from glass and… read on
Hallie Maxwell is an American interdisciplinary artist. In her practice, Maxwell creates processes of making that sit in between disciplines such as drawing, sculpture, performance, installation, and printmaking.… read on
Claire Jussel is a poet, writer, and artist from Boise, Idaho. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in West Trade Review, Black Fox Literary Magazine, CP Quarterly,… read on
Bonnie MacRae is an award-winning writer and director with a drive to create work that gives platforms loud, pertinent, socially-fuelled Scottish stories head on. Bonnie is particularly interested… read on
Debashree Mukherjee and Lotte Hoek are film and media scholars whose research engages the histories, practices and forms of global media. At Cove Park, we will develop ongoing… read on
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… read on
Haley Dercher is a screenwriter who injects fresh, modern subject matter with warmth and wit. She crafts sharp, relatable, memorable female protagonists who are flawed yet fearless. Haley… read on
Lauren Bremner with Robyn Woolston and 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… read on
Eoghan Walls is an Irish poet. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2006, and his most recent collection - Pigeon Songs(Seren 2019) was shortlisted for the Piggot… read on
Nilam Sari, is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Their research and art practice focus on grief and technology–specifically the way we grieve through technology, as… read on
Erica Scourti is an artist and writer, born in Athens and based in Athens and London. She has performed, exhibited and presented talks internationally, at spaces like High… read on
Amber Elison works across disciplines to mine the felt experience between presence and absence, legible and illegible, said and unsaid. Through video, performance, photography, and text, she questions… read on
Dandelion Day Camp is a pilot project within Cove Park’s engagement programme. We will welcome 20 children between 8 – 12 years of age for a week long-programme… read on
Cove Park's European Residency Programme began in 2019. Devised in response to Brexit, and our wish to continue to develop collaborations and partnerships with artists and organisations based… read on
Ufuoma Essi is a filmmaker and artist from Lewisham, south-east London whose work spans film, moving image, photography and sound. Using the archive as… read on
Sekai Machache (she/her) is a Zimbabwean-Scottish visual artist and curator based in Glasgow. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self. She is interested… read on
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… read on
Lili Chin is a visual artist based in New York City. Her interdisciplinary art practice incorporates natural materials, film, video, ceramics, weaving and mixed media to mine historical… read on
Daniyal Ahmed is a musician, anthropologist, curator, and producer; researching and practicing at the intersection of sound and culture. He currently teaches courses in Sound, Music, and… read on
Hatty Nestor is a cultural critic, poet and writer. She has been writer-in-residence at the Jerwood Space in London (2017) and critic-in-residence at Studio Das Weisse Haus… read on
Carl Linstrum is an artist and educator from Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He has maintained an active studio practice in painting and other media for over 30 years and… read on
Amber Lee Dodd is an award-winning children’s author and short-story writer. Her work includes the critically acclaimed novels We Are Giants, Lightning Chase Me Home and The Thirteenth… read on
The Helsinki-based artist Iisa Lepistö takes part in our first Ecologies in the Making residency This residency is the first in a four year programme developed by the… read on
Amanda Verlaque is a writer for stage, screen and VR. The MAC, Belfast produced her critically acclaimed debut play Distortion, and her radio play Lolly, which… read on
Georgia Holmer has spent over 25 years working on international human rights, peace and security as a writer, analyst, advisor, and artist. Her creative work explores issues of… read on
Languid Hands is a London-based artistic and curatorial collaboration between DJ, filmmaker and curator Rabz Lansiquot, and interdisciplinary writer and artist Imani Mason Jordan (fka Imani Robinson). Their… read on
Mathilde N'Doye is a designer and creative facilitator that centres community arts, building dialogue around cultural democracy, promoting shared learning and building supportive communities in the arts. Much… read on
Siôn Parkinson is a sound artist, composer, performer and writer. Animals and other non-human subjects have frequently featured in Siôn's art and music, but for the last three… read on
Edward Gwyn Jones is an artist based in Glasgow, working primarily with moving image. His work appropriates artefacts such as archival printed… read on
Nic Green is an award-winning performance maker based in Scotland, known for her works Cock and Bull, TURN, Fatherland, Slowlo, Trilogy, Vivarium. Her work is varied in style… read on
Isabel Ferrari (she/her) graduated in 2021 from the University of Glasgow with a Joint Honours Degree in English and Comparative Literature, and she is completing an MLitt in… read on
Since early 2021, James and Eric have been collaborating on an ongoing project – Pathlines – that brings together James’ artwork and Eric’s poetry to track and trace… read on
Carlyn Wright-Eakes is an artist and educator from Durham, North Carolina. Her public and community artistic work - from murals to installations and interactive exhibits - centre around… read on
The poet Thomas A Clark lives in a fishing village on the east coast of Scotland. His selected poems, The Threadbare Coat, was published by Carcanet Press in… read on
Dxvis is an interdisciplinary artist and curator with a sentimental approach. Their work has emotional resonance, processing feelings of longing, disorientation, joy, nostalgia and desire.
As the creative director… read on
Haneem Christian is a Visual Poet born and raised in Grassy Park, Cape Town. Christian is a graduate of Gender Studies and Environmental and Geographical Sciences from the… read on
Heiba Lamara is an artist-researcher exploring independent print, publishing and archival practices as a creative practice for social change. She is the Assistant Editor of OOMK… read on
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… read on
Mele Broomes | Artist and Creative Director
Mele Broome’s work embodies stories from the collective voice, creating visceral and sensory collaborations through her ancestral heritage. Working between… read on
