June at Cove Park

The second month of our summer programme sees many more arrivals and we are pleased to welcome the following artists to Cove Park in June: designers Lynne MacLachlan (Scotland) and Marie O'Connor (Sweden); writers Erika Fatland (Norway) and Rose Ruane (Scotland); literary translator Kari Dickson (Scotland); visual artists ektor garcia (Mexico/USA), Grace Schwindt (UK) and Stina Wirflelt (Scotland).

Our 2018 Translation Programme begins this month with the arrival of writer Erika Fatland and translator Kari Dickson. We are grateful to the MacLehose Press for their support this year. You can read more about this partnership and the work of the Erika and Kari here. 

ektor garcia is the first of two international visual artists taking part in this year's programme appointed with the support of Cove Park's International Visual Arts Advisory Board and we would like to thank Abraham Cruzvillegas, Mariana Castillo Deball, Mai Abu EIDahab, Geoffrey Farmer and Naoko Horiuchi for their support this year. ektor will return to Scotland in September 2018 for a solo exhibition at Mary Mary gallery, Glasgow.

Image: Scarlett Cohen French, 2018 Crafts resident (photography, Maeve Redmond)

Charlotte Prodger to represent Scotland at 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia

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.

Cove Park will host the return presentation of Charlotte's commissioned work in 2020, our 20th anniversary year, and co-curate with Linsey Young a tour in the Highlands and Islands. The Dutch arts organisation If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Revolution, who are supporting the production of the work, will lead on a subsequent international tour.

Charlotte Prodger works with moving image, sculpture, writing and performance. The commission for Scotland + Venice will provide her with the opportunity to produce a new single channel video work that will build on her sustained exploration of “queer wilderness”. Prodger, who was a recipient of Cove Park's Emerging Artist Residency in 2010, supported by The Craignish Trust, will return to develop this new work over a series of research and production residencies in 2018 and 2019. Her work will also be supported by the artist's production consultant Mason Leaver-Yap.

The Venice Biennale is recognised as the foremost global presentation of visual art. This will be the ninth presentation supported by the Scotland + Venice partnership (Creative Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland and the British Council Scotland).

Further information is available via Creative Scotland.

Our monthly Saturday Studio programme takes place on 23 June with workshops devised and led by former residents Florence Dwyer and Lauren Gault. These free Hands-On Cove Park workshops are for primary (P3 - p7) and secondary school children. 

Please visit our Eventbrite page for further details. 

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.