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September at Cove ParkAfter almost 6 months of temporary closure, we are delighted to reopen Cove Park on Monday 14 September and look forward to welcoming artists, groups and staff back to the site. Our main priority will continue to be the safety of everyone at Cove Park and we are working hard to ensure residents and visitors remain safe and have the best possible experience. Please see the Reopening Statement for more information. Cove Park's autumn programme includes UK-based writers, visual and performing artists, makers, designers
and producers. The Artists Moving Image Festival residency will also take place this month and we are pleased to confirm below the appointment of the festival's 2020 programmers. Details of all the individuals and groups we will welcome this season and into 2021 are given on the Residencies page of our website. Although residencies for international artists will not resume until 2021, we can share an update on Cove Park's European Residency
Programme and our approach to working with international artists and partners in the future. Please scroll down for more. September also sees the launch of a new Alumni Page on Cove Park's website. This resource for former residents highlights the ways in which we continue to support artists beyond their first residency and, whenever possible, welcome them back to Cove Park for further opportunities. With this in mind, we are delighted that the ceramicist Dawn Youll
will be with us again this autumn and, as you will see below, is this month's Featured Artist. Finally, we would like to thank all of the artists, friends and funders we have been working with this year for their support during a very challenging time. If you are in a position to support Cove Park at this critical moment and would like to help us to continue to provide vital opportunities for artists and those in our local community, please visit the Support Us pages of our website. Image: Cove Park's Bridge, Richard La Trobe
Bateman (photography, Ruth Clark)
Artists' Moving Image Festival 2020We are delighted to host artist, writer, programmer and educator Adam Benmakhlouf and artist and programmer Tako Taal at Cove Park this month. Adam and Tako were announced by LUX Scotland and Tramway on 2 September this year as the programmers of the 9th edition of the
annual Artists' Moving Image Festival (AMIF 2020). AMIF was established in 2012 to provide a platform for the discussion and presentation of artists' moving image. This AMIF research residency - the third to take place at Cove Park - will give Adam and Tako the time to develop the 2020 programme, extending from their own interests and allowing for unexpected moments of overlap. More information on the work of Adam and Tako is available here. Image: Artists Moving Image Festival 2019, programmed by Emmie McLuskey, Ima-Abasi Okon and Kimberley O’Neill. Image courtesy of LUX Scotland (photography by Matthew Arthur Williams).
European Residency ProgrammeCove Park's European Residency Programme was a highlight of 2019 and we were successful earlier this year in our application for further funding from British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland to allow us to continue this series of residencies, developed with partners across Europe, in 2020. Although now postponed until 2021, we are pleased to share a brief review of the programme to date and our plans for international residencies in the
future. Although we are not able to welcome artists and groups based overseas to Cove Park this year, international residencies and exchanges are vitally important to us and we look forward to developing future projects over the coming few months. Read more here. Image: Andrea Coyotzi Borja
Featured Artist - Dawn YoullDawn Youll's internationally acclaimed ceramic practice is informed by the exploration of a personal landscape and the narratives that this can evoke. Based in Glasgow, her work is underpinned by a fascination with the routine of daily life, and over time this has been revised and refined so that the urban environment, the studio, the domestic setting and the making process itself all play a part in the development of her ornamentally scaled ceramic sculptures. Dawn first came to Cove Park in 2008, taking part in the 'Ceramics in Scotland' event organised by Frances
Priest. In 2009 she was awarded a three month Crafts residency to develop new work. Between 2010 and 2018, and whilst maintaining her own studio practice, Dawn was Cove Park's first Crafts Programme Producer, devising new residencies and appointing artists such as Charlotte Linton, Nao Matsunaga, Priya Ravish Mehra, James Rigler and Laura Spring to the programme. Dawn is returning to Cove Park in October this year for an Independently-Funded Residency as part of a research project supported by an Inches Carr Craft Bursary she received earlier this year. She intends to dedicate her time at Cove Park to researching new ideas around form and surface
through reading, writing and drawing and we look forward to working with her again. Image: Above, Dawn Youll at Cove Park in 2008; below, ‘Safe Guard’, Dawn Youll, 2019 (photography, Susan Castillo)
Hands-On Cove Park - Autumn ProgrammeThe HOCP at Home programme this summer included 13 wonderful new films sharing insights into the work of our former residents and new creative projects to try at home. All of the films - including those by Laura Aldridge, Roanna Gonsalves, Duncan Marquiss and Oliver Pitt - are available on our website. The autumn will see a new programme of activities and projects, again devised for
HOCP at Home by former residents. Focussing upon the October school holidays, these activities will be free and available for everyone. If you would like to receive these projects as soon as they are published, please join our Hands-On mailing list. Image: HOCP at Home #3, a film featuring Argyll-based traditional boat builder Ben Wilde, released in April 2020
Support Cove Park and become a Supporter, Friend or Patron in 2020As for all artists and charities working within the cultural sector as a whole, the current global crisis means 2020 is a critical moment for the future of Cove Park. Although our plans to celebrate our 20th anniversary this year are now on hold, our commitment to the artists and communities we serve continues. At a time of considerable uncertainty for everyone, providing opportunities for artists from all backgrounds and at every career stage to devise and produce new work is more important to our culture and society than it has ever been. Please join us by becoming a Supporter, Friend or Patron in 2020. We offer a number of ways individuals and groups can support our work, take part in our programme and spend time at one of Scotland's most beautiful locations. To find our more and to join Cove Park please visit our Support Us page. As a registered charity Cove Park welcomes all donations, small or large. Gifts of any amount will make an enormous difference to our work. Please donate today
if you can. Thank you. Image: Cove Park's Artists Centre, June 2019 (image by Alan Dimmick)
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