We are pleased to announce the call for applications to Cove Park’s new Youth Arts Fund Bursary Programme!

Support from Creative Scotland’s Youth Arts Fund means we can offer four Bursaries beginning in the Spring this year and continuing until February 2023. Early career writers, theatre makers, designers, and digital artists based in Scotland – and aged between 18 and 24 – will be welcome to apply. The bursaries will include a one-month residency at Cove Park, a fee, plus networking opportunities, peer-to-peer support, and mentoring throughout the year.

Further information on this programme, and details of how to apply, is available here. The deadline for all applications is Monday 21 February 2022.

We are pleased to confirm the Advisors to this programme are: Nicole Heidtke, Nelly Kelly, Lucy McEachan, Alex Misick, and Margaret McCormick. The biographies of each Advisor are given below, and we are grateful to them all for their help with this programme.

Nicole Heidtke
Nicole Heidtke is an artist and cultural educator for the Creative Arts, Technology & Education at Templar Arts and Leisure Centre (TALC) in Tarbert and leads Youth Arts projects in Argyll since 2014.

Nelly Kelly
Nelly Kelly is the Artist Development Co-ordinator at the National Theatre of Scotland. They are also a freelance playwright, theatre maker and drag performer. Nelly is passionate about playing their role in reducing barriers to the arts for excluded artists, audiences and participants and strongly believes that art is at its best when it is equitable for all.

Margaret McCormick
Margaret McCormick is Visual Arts Programmer, at Platform, The Bridge, Easterhouse. In her role at Platform Margaret has produced a range of exhibitions and commissions, developing projects with a focus in engagement and participation. Currently, Margaret is on the advisory board at Rumpus Room and a member of the working group at GAMIS.

Lucy McEachan
Lucy McEachan is a curator and Co-Director, with Catriona Duffy, of the arts organisation Panel. Since 2010 Panel has led and inspired a critical space for design in Scotland, commissioning and producing innovative cultural programmes that engage designers and public audiences, making connections with practitioners and institutions whose work extends into visual arts, craft and other cultural contexts and frameworks. Key projects include The Inventors of Tradition with Atelier E.B (2011 and 2015); Scotland Can Make It! (2012-14); Carpets of Distinction (2012); House Style (2013); The Persistence of Type, (2015-18); Souvenirs of Calton Hill (2019); From Glasgow Women’s Library (2019), London’s Kitchen (2021) and MAKE Learn (2021-22). 

Alex Misick
Alex works at The Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow as the Projects and Digital Producer, focused on CCA Annex, a new online project space exploring what constitutes working with artists and practitioners in a digital context.

Image: Cecilia Stamp, Jewellery Designer, Cove Park 2020 (photography, Alan Dimmick)