June at Cove Park

Our summer programme is well underway with many more artists arriving to take part in a wide range of funded programmes. Joining our Literature programme are writers Lou Kramskoy, recipient of the 2019 Birkbeck/Sophie Warne Fellowship, and Anna Stewart. Now in its second year, the Experimental Film & Moving Image programme begins this month and we are pleased to welcome both Adam Lewis-Jacob and Duncan Marquiss. Arriving to take part in the Crafts & Design programme is jeweller Heather Woof, awarded a one-month Emerging Artist residency for a maker based in Scotland. Our Participatory Arts Residency is launched this year with the Cardiff-based artists Clare Charles and Becca Thomas.

Scroll down for updates on Scotland + Venice and the launch of the Scottish Tour, our European Residency Programme, the Scotland/Japan Residency Exchange programme and news of the Work Room/Cove Park Residencies for choreographers, dancers and their collaborators.

Image: The view of Loch Long from Cove Park (photography, Alan Dimmick)

Scotland + Venice: The Scottish Tour

From 27 June 2019 Charlotte Prodger's new single channel video work SaF05 will tour cinemas across Scotland's west coast, Highlands and Islands. This work was commissioned by the Scotland + Venice partnership for the 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia and the presentation was curated by Linsey Young with Cove Park. Taking place at the same time as the exhibition in Venice, SaF05 will screen at seven cinemas and art centres from 27 June to 21 November 2019. This new approach means Scotland + Venice will reach audiences that would not otherwise have the opportunity to see the work.

The Scottish Tour is supported by Art Fund, Screen Scotland and Outset Scotland and the participating venues are: The Tower Digital Arts Centre, Helensburgh; Glasgow Film Theatre, Campbeltown Picture House; Aros Community Cultural Centre, Skye; An Lanntair, Isle of Lewis; Mareel, Shetland Arts Centre and Belmont Filmhouse, Aberdeen. Tickets for all screenings are free and bookable via the cinemas themselves. The tickets for The Tower in Helensburgh will be available from 12 June and those for the Glasgow Film Theatre will be available from 14 June 2019; those for subsequent screenings will be released one month in advance of each event date. Further information on The Scottish Tour is available here.

Photo Credit: Patrick Staff

First Artists Announced for
European Residency Progamme

We are pleased to announce the first artists to be awarded residencies as part of the European Residency Programme in 2019. Appointed with the support of our European partners, the following artists will be travelling to Cove Park to take part in both our summer and autumn residency programmes: 

Andrea Coyotzi Borja
Partners - The Finnish Institute, Helsinki International Artist Programme & MUU Galleria

Aliina Lindroos
Partner - Dance Ireland

Eva Medin
Partners - Cité internationale des Arts, Paris and the Alliance Française Glasgow

Bettina Münch
Partner - Literarisches Colloquium Berlin

We look forward to welcoming all the artists and to announcing further residencies in the coming weeks. You can read more about this programme, supported by British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland, and our EU partners here. Scroll down for a feature on Literarisches Colloquium Berlin.

Image: Choreographer and dancer Aliina Lindroos

Artists Appointed to the Scotland/Japan Residency Exchange Programme

We are delighted to announce that the first residencies for artists based in Japan as part of the Scotland/Japan Residency Exchange Programme have been awarded to Nao Nishihara and Nobuko Tsuchiya. Nao Nishihara will be based at Hospitalfield in Arbroath for one month in September and Nobuko Tsuchiya will join us at Cove Park for one month from mid August this year.

This exchange programme was developed by Cove Park, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (ESW) and Hospitalfield in partnership with the Japanese residency organisations AIT, ARCUS, TOKAS and CRIA. The first residencies for artists based in Scotland were awarded to Florence Dwyer and Stacey Hunter and took place at AIT and CRIA earlier this year. Further residencies at ESW, ARCUS and TOKAS, for visual artists and curators based in Scotland and in Japan, will take place in 2020.

This programme is supported by British Council Scotland, Creative Scotland, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. It marks the British Council’s UK/Japan Season of Culture 2019/2020 and the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Further information is available here. 

Image: 'Cream caldera', Nobuko Tsuchiya, 2018, mixed media, 38 x 42 x 35cm

The Work Room Residencies

Building on a partnership which began in 2017, The Work Room and Cove Park are collaborating again in 2019 to offer residencies at Cove Park for the organisation's members and their collaborators. This year's residencies have been awarded to collaborations led by Rosanna Irvine (with Kian McEvoy) and Skye Reynolds (with collaborator Jo Clifford). Both residencies take place in June.

Development space, studio, meeting place, social network, online resource, creative hub – The Work Room is a comprehensive portal to the independent dance sector in Scotland, based out of a purpose-built studio in Glasgow’s Tramway.

Image: Rosanna Irvine

European Residency Programme
Literarisches Colloquium Berlin

On 29 March we announced the eight project partners working with Cove Park on our new European Residency Programme, all leading arts organisations committed to maintaining and developing cultural exchange between Scotland and European nations. Over the coming months we will feature each partner and provide an overview of their work and current projects. This month we are pleased to profile Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB).

The LCB is an international residency centre offering accommodation in conjunction with a wide range of fellowship programmes for writers and translators from Germany and abroad. As part of its outward-facing programmes, the LCB initiates regular travel projects and exchanges. In collaboration with the Robert Bosch Foundation, the LCB runs the ‘Cross-Border Programme’ (‘Grenzgängerprogramm’) and helps to fund international research trips for writers, filmmakers and photographers working on topical social issues and trends.

Translation funding plays a particularly important role at the LCB. The Berlin Translators’ Workshop, the International Translators’ Conference and Translators’ Day all have a regular place in the events calendar. The German Translators’ Fund, housed at the LCB, has been offering translators fellowships and workshops for more than twenty years through its TOLEDO programme. We are delighted to have this opportunity to work with LCB and look forward to future collaborations.

Cove Park's European Residency Programme is supported by British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland. Find out more about this programme and our supporters here.

Image: Work by choreographer Seppe Baeyens (image by Danny WIllems)

Hands-On Summer Programme

Cove Park's Hands-On programme offers free workshops and events devised and led by former residents. It has been a very busy spring and summer so far and we are grateful to Laura Aldridge, Florence Dwyer, Lauren Gault, Lotte Gertz, Duncan Marquiss, Emmie McLuskey, Naomi O Kelly, Maeve Redmond and David Sherry for delivering a wonderful series of events and projects. Our plans for the summer and autumn programme will be announced very soon and details of all forthcoming events will be posted on our website. 

Image: Saturday Studios led by Lotte Gertz.

We would like to thank all the individuals, Trusts and Foundations supporting our programme this year. They include: The Monument Trust, The Andor Charitable Trust, The Binks Trust, British Council Scotland, The Bridge Awards, The Craignish Trust, Creative Scotland, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, The Fenton Arts Trust, The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Young Start.