July at Cove Park

We are pleased to welcome Cove Park's 2019 International Crafts resident this month: Lujaine Rezk is an emerging designer and producer based in Dubai and will be on residency at Cove Park for five weeks. We are grateful to Tashkeel in Dubai for their support towards this project. Our Crafts programme also hosts the London-based Stoff Studios this month, a partnership between textile designer Carys Briggs and furniture designer and maker Andrew Mason.

Our Literature programme continues with the arrival of the Shetland-based poet Jen Hadfield. Jen will focus upon the development of a collection of creative non-fiction during this residency.

Cove Park's International Visual Arts programme continues with the Canadian artist Krista Belle Stewart, working with us for one month. With support from The Bridge Awards, we will also welcome Glasgow-based visual artist Rhona Mühlebach for a one-month residency.

Charlotte Prodger returns to Cove Park in July for two months. Charlotte will represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2019, a Scotland + Venice presentation commissioned and curated by Linsey Young with Cove Park. This is the first in a series of residencies for Charlotte, giving her the time to develop this major new commission.

Image: Lujaine Rezk

Scotland + Venice seeks to appoint both a Project Manager and a Designer

We are delighted that visual artist Charlotte Prodger, a Cove Park resident in 2010 and 2018, will represent Scotland at the 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. This project will be commissioned and curated by Linsey Young with Cove Park and the presentation will be a major solo exhibition opening in Venice on 11 May 2019 and running until 24 November 2019.

We are now seeking to appoint both a Project Manager and a Designer to work with us on this presentation. A job description and a design brief are now available here and the deadline for applications is Friday 20 July.

Still Image: Charlotte Prodger, 'Stoneymollan Trail', 2015, Single Channel Video, image courtesy of the artist, Koppe Astner, Glasgow, and Hollybush Gardens, London.

Book Deal Residency

For the first time, Cove Park is running a Residency Masterclass for unpublished fiction and non-fiction writers. It will cover the essential first page, and what agents and editors are looking for in a submissions package. There will be one-to-one time with the residency tutors, during which those selected to attend will have the opportunity to discuss their submitted work and receive tailored feedback on how to strengthen their material.

The residency is designed to cover both adult and children’s writing. The weekend will be led by Scholastic editor and previous Cove Park resident Genevieve Herr and Literary Agent Louise Lamont.

This residential masterclass will take place from 9 - 12 November 2018 and costs £350. More details about the weekend and how to apply can be found here. T

he application deadline is 3 September 2018.

Still Image: Charlotte Prodger, 'Stoneymollan Trail', 2015, Single Channel Video, image courtesy of the artist, Koppe Astner, Glasgow, and Hollybush Gardens, London.

Featured Artist

This month our Featured Artist is a self-funding resident, Simon Meek. Simon came to Cove Park in 2016, looking for a week to concentrate on writing a dark, experimental game called Beckett. Its narrative foundations were formed during the residency, where Simon set to work creating the overall story arc, core character sheets, location descriptions and an array of written fragments (both poetic and prose) that ended up in the digital fiction.

More information on self-funded residencies at Cove Park is available here or by contacting us via directly.

Image, Cove Park's Bridge, by former Crafts resident Richard La Trobe Bateman

Emma Henderson, Cove Park's Hands-On Programme Producer, is busily preparing for an exciting summer of free workshops for young people and families. Details on all these projects, and the artists taking part, can be found on our Eventbrite page.

Students from our Secondary School Group were invited to exhibit their work in Somerset House in London last month as part of the National Saturday Club Summer Show. They exhibited typography work and two short films produced during our April Saturday Studio with former resident Ainslie Henderson.

Thanks to everyone who took part and to the organisers for a wonderful event.

Image: Monument Trust Room, Cove Park

Cove Park works in partnership with many other individuals, companies and organisations to create a wide range of residency programmes. Please contact our Partnerships Manager
Catrin Kemp if you would like to discuss your projects with us.

We would like to thank all the individuals, Trusts and Foundations supporting our programme this year. They include: The Andor Charitable Trust, The Binks Trust, The Bridge Awards,
The Craignish Trust and The Fenton Arts Trust.