August at Cove Park

This is a particularly busy month and we are pleased to welcome artists from throughout Scotland and the UK, Australia, Germany, Japan and the USA.

Cove Park's Experimental Film & Moving Image programme continues this month with both the Scotland-based artists Mark Briggs and Annie Crabtree taking part. Our Visual Arts programme sees the arrival of Emilia Beatriz (Glasgow), Giles Round (London) and Nobuko Tsuchiya (Yokohama). Nobuko joins us as part of our ongoing Scotland/Japan Residency Exchange Programme and we are delighted that the artist Nao Nishihara will also be in Scotland in September for his residency at Hospitalfield in Arbroath.

Our European Residency Programme runs throughout the year and this month we host the Frankfurt-based literary translator Bettina Münch on a residency developed in partnership with Literarisches Colloquium Berlin. Bettina's residency runs in parallel with those of writers Jan Carson (Belfast) and Rebecca Raeburn (Edinburgh), both taking part in the funded Literature programme. 

We will also welcome the London-based ceramicist Alice Walton in August as part of our Crafts & Design programme, working alonsgide ceramicist Natalie Weinberger (New York) and weaver Raisa Kabir (London).

Scroll down for the announcement of the participating artists in this year's Early Career Residency Programme, news of the next stop on the Scotland + Venice Scottish Tour of Charlotte Prodger's new work SaF05, a call for applications to further residencies in Japan for Scotland-based artists and curators and news of  our 20th anniversary archive project.

Image: Cove Park' site and the view of Loch Long

Early Career Programme 2019
Residencies Announced

Following an open call for applications, we are pleased to announce the following artists have been awarded three-week residencies in September for early-career artists:

Writer Lisette Auton (Darlington)
Composer Jane Dickson (Glasgow)
Visual Artist Winnie Herbstein (Glasgow)
Artist/Researcher Heiba Lamara (London)

This programme supports artists at a key moment in their careers to develop new work alongside those specialising in other disciplines. We are grateful to The Fenton Arts Trust for their ongoing support. 

Image: 'Are These Wave', Jane Dickson (composer, Early Career Programme 2019)

Two Residency Opportunities in Japan with ARCUS Project and TOKAS

Two residency opportunities are currently available for artists and curators to apply to at ARCUS Project, Ibaraki and Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS), Tokyo. The deadline for both applications is 26 August 2019, 5pm.

In 2019 and 2020 Cove Park, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (ESW) and Hospitalfield are collaborating with a number of partners in Japan to deliver a new residency exchange programme for artists, makers/designers and curators based in Scotland and in Japan. This programme, supported by British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland, the Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, takes place over two years, marking the British Council's UK/Japan 2019/2020 Season of Culture and the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

Information on how to apply is available here.

Image: Installation view of 'We are living in a time machine', Nobuko Tsuchiya, 2007, Mixed media, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo

Scotland + Venice:
The Scottish Tour Arrives on Skye

Following screenings in Helensburgh, Glasgow and Campbeltown, the Scottish Tour of Charlotte Prodger's new work SaF05 continues this month at Aros Cinema in Portree, Isle of Skye on 22 August. Free tickets are available directly from the cinema.

SaF05 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, the Scottish Tour of SaF05 continues until 21 November 2019, reaching audiences across the west coast, Highlands and Islands that would not otherwise have the opportunity to see this acclaimed 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 further information on The Scottish Tour is available here.

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

20th Anniversary Archive Project:
Internship Opportunity for PhD Student

In 2020, Cove Park marks its 20th anniversary. A year-long programme is being planned to celebrate this milestone and look forward to the next 20 years, with fellowships, residency exchanges, commissions and events. Ahead of this, we would like to draw together the various strands of our history through an archive project. Further information is available here. 

Cove Park is delighted to be one of a number of organisations participating in the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities internship scheme. SGSAH organises internships for PhD researchers to spend up to three months at a partner host organisation, enabling them to enhance their research skills in a wide variety of contexts. SGSAH will pay interns the equivalent of an UKRI stipend rate for the duration of the internship and can help with travel and accommodation costs. The programme is open to arts and humanities PhD students in Scotland, regardless of funding source (please see the SGSAH website for eligibility criteria).

Please apply via the SGSAH website here. The deadline for applications is Monday 16th September 2019.

Image from Cove Park's Archive: 'Autoxylopyrocycloboros', Simon Starling, 2006, Commissioned by Cove Park.

Hands-On Summer Programme

The summer has been jam-packed with workshops and events for children, young people and families led by artists such as Hannah Ayres, Duncan Marquiss, Natasha Russell, Tom Serridge and David Sherry. Thank you to everyone who has taken part.

We are now looking forward to our next Saturday Studios on 31 August. Former residents - silversmith and jeweller Scarlett French and graphic designer Maeve Redmond - have devised wonderful new projects for primary and secondary school aged students. Full details on these free participatory events are available on our website. 

Image: Hands-On Mobile Printmaking Workshop led by Natasha Russell, July 2019

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.