April 2020 and Programme Announcement

Cove Park's Summer Residency Programme is typically announced in the preceding spring and although the majority of the residencies we have planned are now postponed due to the current crisis, we are pleased to share with you the names of those we will welcome to Cove Park as soon as we can. Please scroll down for details of our Crafts & Design, Experimental Film & Moving Image, Literature & Translation and Visual Arts programmes. 

We are also delighted to announce the launch of Hands-On Cove Park at Home. This new series of short films provides introductions to the work of the participating artists and gives ideas for work you can make and techniques you can try at home. Scroll down for further information and to see the first film with visual artist and 2019 resident Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir.

In this our 20th year, we will continue our planned archive project and showcase the work of as many of our alumni as we can. This Newsletter features the acclaimed writer and theatre and dance dramaturg Ruth Little and reflects upon her ongoing relationship with Cove Park. We will also highlight our alumni through regular #CovePark2020 posts on social media, sharing portraits of the artists at Cove Park and updates on their work. Follow us on twitter, facebook and instagram to see more.

Finally, we would like to thank all those who support our work by purchasing limited edition prints commissioned by Cove Park. This support is particularly crucial now and will help us to continue to offer vital opportunities for national and international artists and those within our local community. More information on the editions available - by artists such as Claire Barclay, Louise Hopkins, Charlotte Prodger and Simon Starling - is given below and editions can be purchased via our Shop. 

We hope all of our artists, colleagues, friends and supporters are safe and well and we send our very best wishes to everyone.

Image: Cove Park's 50-acre site overlooking Loch Long (photography, Alan Dimmick)

Crafts & Design

This programme supports artists at every career stage working in a wide range of specialisms. The artists awarded residencies in 2020 are: Darren Appiagyei, Soizig Carey, Patrick Davison, Mariam Syed and Attua Aparicio Torinos.

The artists were selected with the support of James Rigler (ceramicist and former resident) and Lauren Dyer Amazeen (Chair, Cove Park's Board of Trustees).

Image: London-based wood turner, Darren Appiagyei and Glasgow-based weaver, Mariam Syed.

Experimental Film & Moving Image

This is the third year of our residency programme dedicated to those working in film and moving image and developed in partnership with Alchemy Film and Arts and LUX Scotland. The artists awarded residencies this year are: Juliana Capes and Alexis Kyle Mitchell.

The artists were selected with support from Michael Pattison (Creative Director, Alchemy Film and Arts) and Kitty Anderson (Director, LUX Scotland).

Image: Juliana Capes (photography, Vicki Watson)

Literature & Translation

We welcome national and international writers and poets specialising in any genre and our growing literary translation programme is unique in the UK. The writers and translators awarded residencies this year are: Polly Atkin, Samantha Clark, Laia Jufresa, Aoife Lyall, Sinéad Morrissey, Annie Rutherford and Sarah Urwin Jones.

The programme was developed with support from Aly Barr (Deputy Director The Scottish Poetry Library and Cove Park Trustee) and Dr Elizabeth Reeder (writer and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Glasgow).

Image: Cove Park's Library, The Jacobs Building.

Visual Arts

As with all the residencies Cove Park offers, this programme supports research, production and experimentation within a multidisciplinary context. The artists awarded residencies this year are: Anthea Hamilton, Aniara Omann, Alison Scott and Katie Schwab. We are grateful for the ongoing support of The Bridge Awards, making possible this year's Emerging Artist Residency awarded to Aman Sandhu.

The artists were appointed with support from Graham Domke (independent curator) and Francis McKee (Director, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow). 

Image: Katie Schwab, Double Quilt (St Ives/Plymouth/London), 2017-19, (photo: Andy Ford)

Hands-On Cove Park - HOCP at Home

Hands-On Cove Park is our creative learning programme of public workshops and events devised and led by former residents. Although our regular series of Saturdays Studios and other events can not now take place due to the current crisis, HOCP at Home introduces the practices of the participating artists and gives ideas for work you can make at home. The first film features the Glasgow-based artist Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir - a visual arts resident in 2019 - and is edited by Duncan Marquiss. The film shows how to make your own loom and to experiment with some of the techniques the artist employs.

Future HOCP at Home films will be released shortly and we would like to thank the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Young Start Community Fund for their ongoing support of this programme.

Image: Hands-On Cove Park at Home #1, April 2020

Cove Park Alumni: Ruth Little

Over the course of 2020, and as part of a wider archive project marking Cove Park's 20th anniversary year, we will feature a number of the artists, writers, makers, choreographers, dancers, collaborative groups, companies, curators, producers and directors that we have been so privileged to welcome to Cove Park. Many of the artists we host return frequently to Cove Park to develop individual projects or to work collaboratively. The acclaimed writer and theatre and dance dramaturg Ruth Little has worked in this way with Cove Park for over 10 years and made a wonderful contribution to our programme. She recently described her relationship with us in the following statement:  
'Cove Park is for me as much an event as a place: a site for generating and gestating new projects, partnerships and ways of working. Every time I come here it feels both like a homecoming and a leap into the unknown. I’ve seen so many fruitful ideas take shape on this site and evolve into projects with real and lasting impact on artists, audiences, local communities and their contexts. The landscape and the culture of the place, along with the unpredictable intersection of makers and thinkers that happens here, has become part of my own research and creative process - any idea worth pursuing will be clarified, enriched and expanded through the collaborations and concentration that Cove Park makes possible.'

To read more about Ruth's work please visit her Artists Page on our website.

Image: Ruth Little

Shop for Art and Support Cove Park

Cove Park commissions exclusive limited edition prints and artworks to support our work. These editions are generously donated by the artists to enable new residencies to be developed for the benefit of national and international artists. Cove Park's Shop features wonderful editions by Claire Barclay, Christine Borland, Nathan Coley, Graham Fagen, Louise Hopkins, Charlotte Prodger, Ross Sinclair and Simon Starling. These works are produced with Scotland's leading printmaking studios and every sale makes an enormous difference to us. For further information and to buy an edition please contact Alexia Holt directly.

Image: Untitled, Claire Barclay, 2006, Screenprint (photography Ruth Clark)