October at Cove Park

Cove Park's European Residency Programme continues in October and November. We welcome the Norwegian artist and singer-songwriter Lillian Samdal through a new residency exchange with the Nordic Artists' Centre Dale (NKD) Norway. The Glasgow-based artist/designer and former resident Deirdre Nelson, will also be based at NKD later this month. In addition, we host the Paris-based visual artist Eva Medin on a residency organised in collaboration with Cité internationale des Arts Paris, and artist Klaas Burger, here through a collaboration with the SEA Foundation, The Netherlands.

October also sees the very welcome return of the award-winning theatre company Magnetic North. The company's Space/Time programme brings together experienced artists working in a range of disciplines and the participants this year are: writer Cathy Forde, poet Alyson Hallett, composer/musician Daniel Padden, dancer/theatre maker Emma Jayne Park and writer Rob Young.

Scroll down for the announcement of our forthcoming Translation Programme, Hands-On, Independently Funded Residencies this autumn and details of the open call for applications to next summer's Funded Residencies in Crafts & Design, Experimental Film & Moving Image, Literature & Translation and Visual Arts.

Image: The view to Loch Long from Cove Park (photography, Ruth Clark)

Translation Programme 2019:
Participants Announced

Details of our Translation Programme in November have just been announced. Working in partnership with the National Centre for Writing, we will welcome the following 7 translators to Cove Park for Translation Week, a one-week programme of workshops and discussion: Kari Dickson (workshop leader), Polly Barton (Japanese), Jozefina Komporaly (Hungarian and Romanian), Jozef van der Voort (Dutch and German), Zoë Perry (Portuguese), Katherine Mendelsohn (French) and Ayça Türkoğlu (Turkish and German). 

Running alongside this programme, we are also working with Publishing Scotland to bring two translators of Scottish books for a two-week residency each in November. This year's residents are Brazilian translator Stephanie Fernandes and French translator Ghislain Bareau. Stephanie will be working on her translation of Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Ghislain will be translating Kathleen Jamie's second volume of essays, Surfacing.

Image: Cove Park's Library and Meeting Room (photography, Alan Dimmick)

Funded Residency Programme 2020:
Open Call for Applications

We are pleased to share details of our Funded Residencies in 2020 and to announce the deadlines for applications to our Crafts & Design, Experimental Film & Moving Image, Literature & Translation and Visual Arts programmes.

Residencies awarded through these programmes will take place during the summer of 2020. Please view the Application Guidelines for each programme for further information. The deadlines are as follows:

Crafts & Design:
Monday 16 December 2019
Experimental Film & Moving Image:
Wednesday 11 December 2019
Literature & Translation:
Monday 16 December 2019
Scotland/Australia Residency Exchange:
Monday 9 December 2019
Visual Arts:
Monday 16 December 2019

Image: Ashanti Harris, Visual Arts/The Bridge Awards Resident 2019 (photography, Alan Dimmick

The Scotland + Venice Scottish Tour
Mareel - Shetland Arts

Tickets are now available for the screening of Charlotte Prodger's new work SaF05 at Mareel, Shetland Arts, on Thursday 24 October at 6.30pm. We are delighted that curator Helen Nisbet will introduce this screening, part of the Scotland + Venice Scottish Tour of SaF05. Helen is originally from Shetland and is now Artistic Director for Art Night. She curates projects across the UK and sits on the Acquisition Committee for the Arts Council Collection and the Advisory Board for Art Quest. Her publication It Disappears in Blue and Red and Gold was published by Bookworks in 2018.

This Tour runs in parallel with the current presentation of SaF05 at the Venice Biennale. The event will begin with a screening of the short film The Making of Scotland + Venice, by Martin Clark. Tickets are free and can be booked directly via the cinema. This is the penultimate screening on the Scottish Tour of SaF05; the final screening takes place in Aberdeen in November.

Image: Charlotte Prodger, SaF05, 2019, single-channel video, courtesy of the artist; Koppe Astner, Glasgow and Hollybush Gardens, London

Independently-Funded Residencies at 
Cove Park this Autumn

Book now for independently-funded residencies this autumn at Cove Park. During October and November we can host individuals and groups for residencies from between three nights to two weeks. Please click here for further details and information on how to book.

If you have spent time at Cove Park in the past, we are pleased to offer a discount of 25% on all bookings made by our artists. Please contact Rebecca DeWald directly if you are a former resident and would like to return to this autumn.

Recent independently-funded residents include: Shama Khanna, Eric Langley, Janice Parker, Adele Patrick and Luke Pell. Organisations supporting their artists, producers and staff to take part in our programme include Cryptic, Mslexia, TENT Rotterdam, Perth Theatre and the University of Edinburgh.

Image: Cove Park Studio (photography, Alan Dimmick)

Hands-On Cove Park

Hands-On in October offers a number of workshops for primary school age children. Taking place during the October half-term holiday, former residents Lotte Gertz and Alison Irvine will lead printmaking and creative writing workshops. These workshops are free and are a wonderful opportunity to try something new. Further information and details on how to book are available here. 

Image: Printmaking at Cove Park.

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.