RESIDENCIES

This Season

Funded Residencies 2022/23

Nic Green

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

Magnetic Residency

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…  read on

Winter Subsidised Residencies 2023

Sylvia Waltering

Sylvia Waltering was born in Germany and based in Manchester. Her creative practice uses a variety of media, such as photography, printmaking, writing and artist books to explore…  read on

Winter Subsidised Residencies 2023

Caroline Brothers

Associate artist Caroline Brothers returns to Cove Park as part of our 2023   read on

Winter Subsidised Residencies 2023

Jana Kühne

Associate artist Jana Kühne returns to Cove Park as part of our 2023   read on

Winter Subsidised Residencies 2023

Freya Pocklington

Freya Pocklington studied a BA at Edinburgh College of Art (2006) and an MA at UAL (2009). Solo exhibitions include: Ostara, Broadway Gallery (2022) and Behind the Blue…  read on

Playwrights’ Studio Scotland 2023

Robbie MacLeòid

Robbie MacLeòid visits Cove Park for a writing residency through Playwrights’ Studio’s   read on

Winter Subsidised Residencies 2023

Karen Maxted

Karen Maxted graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with distinction in 2018, specialising in painting. Since then, she has worked out of her studio in Troon and from…  read on

Funded Residencies 2022/2023

Mele Broomes

Mele Broomes’ work embodies stories from the collective voice, creating visceral and sensory collaborations. Her work GRIN was presented at Battersea Art Centre, London, alongside the film production…  read on

Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland 2023

Mamoru Iriguchi

Mamoru Iriguchi returns to Cove Park for a writing residency through Playwrights' Studio's   read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Grace Denton

Grace Denton (she/her) is an artist and writer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, and currently in her third year of a practice-based PhD at Northumbria University. Her practice…  read on

Talbot Rice Residents

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…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

James Ross

James Ross is a pianist and composer who pushes the boundaries of Scottish traditional music. James released his debut album on the Greentrax label, a mix of his…  read on

Winter Subsidised Residencies 2023

Caroline Bagenal

Caroline Bagenal was born on the Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland. She is a sculptor and freelance writer with an MFA in Painting and an MA in Modern Art…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Annie Crabtree and Seth Hannah

Associate Annie Crabtree and Seth Hannah will be working on the voiceover script for new moving image work ‘Haunting’ while at Cove Park. ‘Haunting’ asks how identity is…  read on

Talbot Rice Residents

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…  read on

Winter Subsidised Residencies 2023

Anna Bambridge

Anna Bambridge is a writer based in Glasgow. Her work is about seeing and being seen. She has studied physics and vision and draws from her scientific experience…  read on

Winter Subsidised Residencies 2023

Susannah Haslam

Dr Susannah Haslam is an independent research practitioner and tutor (research) in humanities at the Royal College of Art in London. She currently works in collaboration with Dr…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Sandra Vick

Whether it’s birds, flowers, hares, trees or landscapes, Sandra Vick's work is quintessentially about capturing the essence. She looks for patterns and shapes, colours and tones, lines and…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Tomoko Otani

Tomoko Otani is a Japanese artist based in Tokyo. She graduated from Musashino Art University corresponding course in 2022, specialising in printing. She also gained a degree in…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Henry Coleman

Henry Coleman works around the spaces of designed experience, bumping up against architecture, typography, signage and the decorative; reframing and making obvious the established edges of the aesthetic…  read on

Winter Subsidised Residencies 2023

Ella Thumim

Ella Thumim is a visual artist based in London. Working mainly in painting and drawing, her practice explores the moments and materials of our everyday lives, focussing on…  read on

Winter Subsidised Residencies 2023

Scott Robertson

Scott Robertson (born in Ayr) is an artist with a conceptually driven practice. He works without a fixed studio or dedicated time to his practice, and connects people…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Helen Kellock

Helen Kellock is a award-winning author and illustrator based in Glasgow. At the heart of Helen's practice is a love of drawing, narrative and making picture books. Her…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Catherine Spencer

Catherine Spencer is an art historian and writer based at the University of St Andrews. Her book Beyond the Happening: Performance Art and the Politics of Communication was…  read on

Funded Residencies 2022/2023

Hatty Nestor

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

Ecologies in the Making 2023

Santtu Laine

The Helsinki-based artist Santtu Laine was awarded the 2023 Ecologies in the Making residency. This residency is the second in a four year programme developed by the   read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Freya Dooley

Freya Dooley’s practice incorporates sound, writing, moving image, installation, and performance. Rooted in close-range observations, her semi-fictional narratives and sonic compositions often expand on the harmonies and tensions…  read on

Winter Subsidised Residencies 2023

Chloe Windsor

My practice consists mainly of sculpture and light installation, supported by drawing, collage and creative writing. Through my practice I intend to impress upon the viewer a sense…  read on

Winter Subsidised Residencies 2023

Tajender Sagoo

Tajender Sagoo is a multi disciplinary artist with a core practice in textile weaving and print making, based in London. Her practice uses textiles in a multi disciplinary…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Myles-Jay Linton

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

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Roger Suckling

Roger Suckling’s work is based around themes of location/place and autobiography/identity, using photography and moving image to explore place and time, to map a visual account of both…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Titus Davies

My artwork uses site specific installations, photography and collage. I’m interested in using ruptures and matter out of place to explore the interface between the built environment, the…  read on

Winter Subsidised Residencies 2023

Anne Waggot Knott

A visual artist, geographer, and researcher, Anne’s practice is anchored around human-environment connections and experimental printmaking. Physical and metaphorical journeys are influential and intrinsic, particularly linking place and…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Sharon Epstein

Sharon is a fibre and glass artist, trained at the Glasgow School of Art. Following her education in Scotland she attended the Banff Centre of Fine Arts in…  read on

Winter Subsidised Residencies 2023

Anna Reckin

Anna Reckin is a poet based in Norwich. Her first two collections, Three Reds and Line to Curve, are published by Shearsman. Over the last few years she…  read on

European Residency Programme 2023

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…  read on

Magnetic Residency

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…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Jane Alexander

Jane Alexander is a novelist and short story writer based in Edinburgh. After training at Edinburgh College of Art, she went on to study creative writing at the…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Daniel Clark / Gaada

Gaada is an artist-led organisation which runs Toogs Art Workshop, a neurodiverse making community and Shetland's only visual art workshop facility. It was founded in 2018 by artists…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Sheila MacNeill

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

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Verity-Jane Keefe

Verity-Jane Keefe is a visual artist working predominantly in the public realm to explore the complex relationship between people and place. She is interested in the role of…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Hannah Coulson

Hannah Coulson is a Scottish artist, illustrator and educator. She studied Visual Communication at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Hannah is an Associate…  read on

Talbot Rice Residents

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,…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Lesley McIntyre

Lesley McIntyre is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Northumbria University, Newcastle. She is fascinated by the mystery of ‘what has gone before’ and driven to uncover and…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Chris Bogle

Chris Bogle is a writer and filmmaker based in the North East of England. He is currently in the first year of a practice-based PhD in creative writing…  read on

Looking for a Likeness Within an Unlikeness Residency

Fraser Taylor, Lisa Woolley, Marion Back, Sheena Beaton, Zoe Derbyshire, James Doak, Grace Fisher, Ruby Flowers, Fiona Gibson, Anne Goldrick, Alison Harley, Kim Lyons, Hilary Nicoll, and Simon Townsend 

Looking for a Likeness Within an Unlikeness A week-long residency led by Fraser Taylor and Lisa Woolley The emphasis will be on exploring the expansive vocabulary of drawing and its…  read on

Funded Residencies 2022/2023

Miranda Bellamy & Amanda Fauteux

Miranda Bellamy (she/her) and Amanda Fauteux (she/her) are partners and artistic collaborators who…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Rodge Glass

Rodge Glass is the author of seven published books: three novels (No Fireworks, Hope   read on

Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities Residencies 2023

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,…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Flora Litchfield

Flora Litchfield is an artist and sound therapist based in Edinburgh - working with laser light, nature, sound and moving image. Her work navigates geographical sites and psychological…  read on

Spring Micro-Residencies 2023

Alison Irvine

Alison Irvine lives in Glasgow and is a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction. Her first novel This Road is Red (Luath 2011), based on the stories of…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Bryony McIntyre & Barry Esson

Bryony McIntyre and Barry Esson are founding members of   read on

Spring Micro-Residencies 2023

Claudia Berghorn

Claudia Berghorn is a German writer and life writing teacher who works both in German and in English. Claudia has published two anthologies of life writing with her…  read on

Taiwanese Writer Residency

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…  read on

Spring Micro-Residencies 2023

Sabrina Henry

Sabrina Henry is a curator and costume designer. Her curatorial practise thinks through questions of post-coloniality as they exist in Scotland to contribute to the wider discourse around…  read on

Migration and Racialisation Residency

Rachel Long

Dr Hannah Proctor and Dr Akshi Singh have been awarded funding from the British Academy for a writing retreat as part of a project called 'Migration and Racialisation:…  read on

Migration and Racialisation Residency

rémy-paulin twahirwa

Dr Hannah Proctor and Dr Akshi Singh have been awarded funding from the British Academy for a writing retreat as part of a project called 'Migration and Racialisation:…  read on

Migration and Racialisation Residency

Leah Jun Oh

Dr Hannah Proctor and Dr Akshi Singh have been awarded funding from the British Academy for a writing retreat as part of a project called 'Migration and Racialisation:…  read on

Migration and Racialisation Residency

Hannah Proctor

Dr Hannah Proctor and Dr Akshi Singh have been awarded funding from the British Academy for a writing retreat as part of a project called 'Migration and Racialisation:…  read on

Migration and Racialisation Residency

Christopher Law

Dr Hannah Proctor and Dr Akshi Singh have been awarded funding from the British Academy for a writing retreat as part of a project called 'Migration and Racialisation:…  read on

Migration and Racialisation Residency

Akshi Singh

Dr Hannah Proctor and Dr Akshi Singh have been awarded funding from the British Academy for a writing retreat as part of a project called 'Migration and Racialisation:…  read on

Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Research Network’s PhD Lab

Adam Frank

Adam Frank is a first-year Philosophy PhD student at the University of Dundee. His research explores how practices of attentiveness in everyday life and academic research methods can…  read on

Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Research Network’s PhD Lab

Felix Clarke

Felix Clarke is a PhD researcher in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh whose work is concerned with human/non-human animal relations. He is particularly interested in the…  read on

Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Research Network’s PhD Lab

Matthew Lear

Matthew Lear is a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh where his research on ‘Repurposed Poetics and Anthropocene Time’ is funded by the Scottish…  read on

Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Research Network’s PhD Lab

Ellie Bush

Ellie Bush is an artist and practice-based PhD student at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. She is interested in how art-based approaches can examine and amplify…  read on

Youth Arts Bursary Programme 2022/23

Bonnie MacRae

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

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Justin Armstrong

Justin Armstrong is a Canadian cultural anthropologist and writer based in Boston, USA. His work explores the intersections of sound, landscape, and everyday life. He has written numerous…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Anna Rhodes, Anna Reid & Milja Tuomivaara

Fascinated by microscopic landscapes, collaborators Anna Rhodes, Anna Reid & Milja Tuomivaara are developing a series of micro publications to explore topics such as sediments, moss and the…  read on

Spring Micro-Residencies 2023

Fiona Linday

After supporting in schools, Fiona wrote for young adults: Get Over It, Adventures, Onwards and Upwards. Before came her prize-winning short story, ‘Off the Beaten Track.’ She won…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Erin McQuarrie

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Erin McQuarrie was awarded a 3-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Miranda Vissers

Miranda Vissers is a natural researcher; always looking for structures in landscapes. She writes: 'Travel is the key in the development of my work. It is a major driving…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Tess Taylor

Tess Taylor’s is a poet and theatre artist from northern California. Her poetry often explores place, history, and ecosystem, and has been praised for revealing 'not so much…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Julie Kennedy

Julie Kennedy is a writer and teacher, highly commended in the recent 2022 Ledbury Poetry Competition. During her residency at Cove park, she hopes to finishing the final…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Maura Bedloe

Maura Bedloe is a writer based in Tasmania, Australia. She is coming to Cove Park on an independently funded residency to develop a new work that blends memoir,…  read on

Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities Residencies 2023

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…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Ashanti Harris

Ashanti Harris is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher. Working with dance, performance, facilitation, sound, installation and writing, Ashanti’s work disrupts historical narratives…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Jian Yi

Jian Yi is a multidisciplinary artist working in performance art, contemporary dance and new genres. Their practice is rooted in an ongoing enquiry into the ambiguities of…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Andy Holden

Andy Holden (b. 1982 Bedford, U.K) is an artist whose work comprises large installations, sculpture, painting, pop music, performance, animation, curating and multi-screen-videos. His work is often defined…  read on

Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities Residencies 2023

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…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Kerry McGee

Kerry McGhee is a painter/illustrator and works under the brand KMG illustrations. She specialises in bespoke drawings and painting of places of significance to individual buyers. The former…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Lizzy Leech

Lizzy Leech is a set and costume designer and theatre maker from Cumbria. She works collaboratively and predominantly in new writing and devised theatre, with…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Tom Veeger

Tom Veeger is an award-winning architect, artist, curator and designer. His art and design have been shown in various art-spaces in the Netherlands and internationally. In his work…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Lucy Roscoe

Lucy Roscoe is an Illustrator working across the fields of Craft, Design and Art. She works with a variety of clients and regularly collaborates with a number of…  read on

Techne Funded PhD Professional Development Residency

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,…  read on

Ecological Economics Residency 2023

Corinne Baulcomb, Joana Ferreira, Alex Lemery, Seb O’Connor

This special residency involves tutors and students from the MSc Ecological Economics programme at the University of Edinburgh and Scotland's Rural…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Farah Abdessamad

Farah Abdessamad is a French-Tunisian writer, critic, and essayist. Based in New York City since 2020, she has previously contributed to The Atlantic, The Nation, Observer, The TLS,…  read on

Research Residency 2023

Cosmo Wezenbeek & Michael Becker

This micro-residency supports recent graduates Cosmo Wezenbeek and Michael Becker. Cosmo is a recent graduate from Architecture at the Edinburgh University with an interest in applying a…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Chinasa Vivian Ezugha

Assistant Arts Professor of Live Art/Art as Social Practice Chinasa Vivian Ezugha is a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter. Her interdisciplinary practice spans Live Art, film, and…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Kuppuswamy Ganesan

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Kuppuswamy Ganesan was awarded an 8-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research,…  read on

Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities Residencies 2023

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…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Sean Negus

Sean Negus is an artist who works in the expanded field of poetics. In addition to a book of poems published bilingually in Portuguese and English, Hurricane Music,…  read on

Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities Residencies 2023

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…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Anne Fleming

Anne Fleming is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, and children's author whose writing has been shortlisted for Canada’s Governor-General’s Award, the Journey Prize, and four BC Book Prizes.…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Cindy Holmes

Dr. Cindy Holmes is a queer, cisgender, white settler of Scottish and Irish ancestry who lives in the unceded territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən and…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

William Keohane

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, William Keohane was awarded a 4-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research,…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Abbie Plant

Abbie. L. Plant is a writer and poet based in Yorkshire, where she is currently writing her debut poetry collection ‘lucid dreams, meanderings and the contemplation of nothing’…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Nacim Pak-Shiraz

Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz is Personal Chair of Cinema and Iran at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on cinema and visual culture in the Middle East, particularly…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

bare minimum

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, bare minimum collective was awarded a 4-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Kirsty Crawford

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Kirsty Crawford was awarded a 4-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research,…  read on

Scotland-Ukraine Arts Residencies

Veronika Skliarova

Veronika Skliarova is a cultural manager, theatre producer, and curator from Ukraine. She is the Programme Director of   read on

Playwrights’ Studio Scotland 2023

Hannah Lavery

Hannah Lavery is a Scottish poet and playwright. She was appointed Edinburgh Makar (or city poet) in November 2021 for a three year term. She was also…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Andrew Rubens

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Andrew Rubens was awarded a 4-week funded residency. Cove Park's programme of funded residencies support research, the development of…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Zoe Lafferty

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Zoe Lafferty was awarded an 8-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Jade Blood

Jade Blood is an artist, printmaker and organiser. Jade co-founded York Zine Fest, a free biannual self publishing event and Artists with(out) green space; a project which encourages…  read on

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland – 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,…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Matthew Arthur Williams

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Matthew Arthur Williams was awarded a 6-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development…  read on

Talbot Rice Residents

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…  read on

Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities Residencies 2023

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,…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Hannah Sabapathy

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Hannah Sabapathy was awarded a 4-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research,…  read on

Cove Park / Varuna the National Writers’ House Residency Exchange 2023

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…  read on

The Bridge Awards Residency

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…  read on

Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities Residencies 2023

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,…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Kathryn (Kechi) Nwajiaku-Dahou

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Kathryn (Kechi) Nwajiaku-Dahou was awarded a 2-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development…  read on

Edinburgh International Book Festival Residencies 2023

Sarah Krasnostein

We are delighted to partner with Edinburgh International Book Festival to host Australian writer Sarah Krasnostein in August.   read on

Edinburgh International Book Festival Residencies 2023

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…  read on

Funded Residencies 2022/2023

Mohamed-Zain Dada

Mohamed-Zain Dada is a playwright, researcher and cultural producer. Mohamed-Zain’s directing credits include…  read on

Associates in Collaboration 2023

Hope Strickland and Ana Edwards

Cove Park’s Associates Programme is a membership programme for our former residents. It offers new opportunities, events, and residency exchanges on an annual basis for…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Angela Davies

Angela Davies is an artist living and working in Wales, interrogating a sense of place, of belonging, and the boundary systems and borders we create. Angela explores constructed…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Kim Sherwood

Kim Sherwood is an author and creative writing lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, where she lives in the city. Kim Sherwood’s first novel, Testament (2018), won the…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Coby Sey

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Coby Sey was awarded a 2-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of…  read on

Associates Maker/Designer Residency

Anna Olson

Cove Park Associate Anna Olson is a Scotland-based interdisciplinary artist. An MFA graduate from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, she studied creative and critical…  read on

Young Gaelic Writer Residency 2023

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.…  read on

Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities Residencies 2023

Kiah Endelman Music

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,…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Annette Weisser

Annette Weisser is a visual artist and writer based in Berlin. She is currently teaching at Kunsthochschule Kassel. From…  read on

Micro-Residencies 2023

Hannah Low

Hannah Low is an early career theatre-maker and performer based in Edinburgh, who graduated in 2019 with a BA(Hons) in Musical Theatre. Since graduating she…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Kristina Marie Darling

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of thirty-nine books. An expert consultant with the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and a twice-awarded Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Darling’s work has also been…  read on

Maker/Designer Residency 2023

Isabelle Moore

Isabelle Moore is an award-winning furniture designer-maker with an abiding passion for chair design. Her Edinburgh-based studio practice incorporates woven fibre techniques and…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Meara Sharma

Meara Sharma is a writer and artist. Across her fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art, she is interested in the seams between matter and…  read on

Associates Subsidised Residency

Anna Bambridge

Anna Bambridge is a writer based in Glasgow. Her work is about seeing and being seen. She has studied physics and vision and draws from…  read on

Associates Subsidised Residency

Alison Irvine

Alison Irvine lives in Glasgow and is a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction. Her first novel This Road is Red (Luath 2011), based on the stories of…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

AV

AV (Adam Vaughn) is an Edinburgh-based writer, screenwriter, and teacher from Connecticut. They completed their Creative Writing MSc in 2021, serving as the Head Prose Editor for the…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Clementine Burnley

Born in Cameroon, Clementine Burnley now lives and works between the U.K. and Germany. She has an MSc in Applied Linguistics from Manchester University and is a part-time,…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Hannah Morgan

Hannah Morgan is a recent graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art. Working primarily in sculptural installation, Hannah's work centres around material components that consider emergence and…  read on

Food Lab Residency

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…  read on

Playwrights’ Studio Scotland 2023

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…  read on

Associates Artists in Schools Residency 2023

Amber Lee Dodd

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

Associates Early Career Residency

Sean Wai Keung

Sean Wai Keung is a Glasgow-based poet, interdisciplinary and community artist. His work often uses food as a starting point for explorations of identity, migration, community and…  read on

We, the Landscape Residency

Heidi Hornáčková and 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…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Scottee

Scottee is a self taught, multi-award winning artist and performer who has received critical acclaim for his work in theatre, audio and fine art. A multi-hyphenate, with a…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Lisa Kelly and Sinclair Cole

Lisa Kelly is a Vietnamese/Australian harpist (Lake Kelly) and artist (The Moon Gallery) based in Meanjin, Brisbane Australia. Lisa has a focus on creating reflective and immersive art…  read on

Funded Residencies 2022/23

Dhelia Snoussi

Dhelia Snoussi is an artist, researcher and curator with a background in arts education and youth work. She is currently Youth Culture Curator at the Museum of London, working…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Felix Taylor

Felix Taylor is an artist and composer working in a variety of different mediums. Taylor is currently working with Turner nominated collective Gentle / Radical – continuing research…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Christie Taylor

After forty plus years in the art gallery business in North Carolina, USA, Christie Taylor retired to the Eastern Shore of Maryland where she returned to painting the…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Laura Campbell

Laura Campbell is a Liverpool based sound artist & music composer, creating audio walks & sonic stories composed using field recordings alongside voice & electronic instrumentation. She is…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Anna Szałucka

Anna Szałucka is a pianist and collaborator. Her work emphasis cross-arts productions and finding new formats for classical music concerts. Currently a piano professor at The Royal Academy…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Kate Young

Kate Young is a musician and composer from Edinburgh. Her work is driven by the exploration of new sounds found in traditional musics around the globe, which feed…  read on

Mophradat Art Time Residency 2023

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…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Alexandra Ross

Dr Alexandra Ross is Lecturer in Contemporary Art and Curation at the University of Glasgow, convenor of the M.Litt in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art), a jointly run masters…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Gayle Meikle

Dr Gayle Meikle is a Lecturer in Contemporary Art Curation primarily interested in curating as a creative practice. She teaches across the Fine Art and Media Culture and…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Amit Noy

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Amit Noy was awarded an 3-week funded residency. Cove Park's programme of funded residencies support research, the development of…  read on

forming ecology

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…  read on

Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities Residencies 2023

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…  read on

Playwrights’ Studio Scotland 2023

Zoë Bullock

Zoë Bullock is a writer and performer from Sheffield, who lives in Glasgow. Her writing for theatre includes: Shō and the Demons of the Deep (Imaginate), The Listening Tree (Imaginate/Eco Drama,…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal is a writer and translator, and was born in Palampur, India. She studied at St. Bede’s College, Shimla; Trinity College, Dublin; and Queen’s University, Belfast.…  read on

Independently Funded Residencies 2023

Alyson Olson

Alyson Olson's practice is concerned with expanded painting through her use of objects, experiences, and the connections she makes with time and space. Her practice considers how the…  read on

Rumpus Room Residency 2023

Ardis Önnerfors, Nadia Rossi, Leo Valenti, Rachel Walker

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ViceVersa Translation Workshop

Katy Derbyshire and Tanja Handels with Florian Bissig, Barbara Christ, Ingo Herzke, Sharon Howe, Anna-Christin Kramer, Anne Posten, Anna V. Rath, Bradley Schmidt, Imogen Taylor, and Rachel Ward

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…  read on

Busan Cultural Foundation Residency 2023

Hye Soon Seo

Cove Park is delighted to work in partnership with   read on

Material Futures Residencies 2023

Niamh Schmidtke

Material Futures is a new programne for visual artists working with or developing sustainable materials and approaches as a key aspect of their work. Following an open call…  read on

Material Futures Residencies 2023

Monya Riachi

Material Futures is a new programne for visual artists working with or developing sustainable materials and approaches as a key aspect of their work. Following an open call…  read on

Independently Funded Residency 2023

Claire Cunningham with Cormac Lynch, Simone Kenyon, and Luke Pell.

Claire Cunningham is a performer and creator of multi-disciplinary performance based in Glasgow, Scotland. One of the UK’s most acclaimed and internationally renowned disabled artists, Cunningham’s work is often…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Sayan Chanda

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Sayan Chanda was awarded an 8-week funded residency. Cove Park's programme of funded residencies support research, the development of…  read on

Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize Residency 2024

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…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Muslim Shaggan

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Muslim Shaggan was awarded a 6-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Ayisha Malik

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Ayisha Malik was awarded a 3-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of…  read on

Funded Residencies 2023/24

Csilla Toldy

Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Csilla Toldy was awarded a 3-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research,…  read on

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