July 2021
Our summer programme of funded residencies is well underway and we are delighted to welcome writers Beth Cochrane, Aoife Lyall, Annie Rutherford, and Belinda Zhawi; makers/designers Patrick Davison, Cecilia Stamp, and Maiko Tsutsumi; and visual artists Renèe Helèna Browne, Rhona Jack and Amy Jones.
We are always very happy when our alumni return to Cove Park and we are pleased to host Katrina Palmer this month, a visual arts resident in 2017. Katrina's independently-funded residency this year takes place alongside those for the curator and writer Laura Castagnini, visual artists Sara Bor, Louise McLachlan, Sebastian Thomas and Verity-Jane Keefe, performance artist Roy Claire Potter, and writers Simon Bor, Julie Kennedy and Audrey Osler. Information on all the artists participating this year can be found here.
Our partnership with Talbot Rice Gallery continues in July and we are pleased to host visual artists Aideen Doran and Stephanie Mann. Aideen and Stephanie are Talbot Rice Residents, a programme which is part of a UK-wide initiative funded by Freelands Foundation to support and grow creative communities by fostering long-term relationships and collaborations between artists and arts organisations. An exciting new partnership with The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland led this month to the first Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency, awarded to multidisciplinary performance artist Sally Charlton.
We are pleased to announce an award received this month from YouthLink Scotland and its Summer of Play programme. The funding will allow us to develop a series of new workshops informed by our current focus upon environmental sustainability, led by and for young people aged 11-18, and based around outdoor cultural activity. More information on this project will be announced soon.
This Newsletter also includes details of future residencies made possible through the Ivan Juritz Prize, exciting new collaborations enabled by awards from Arts & Business Scotland's Culture & Business Fund, and an update on Cove Park's 2020/21 Crisis Residency Programme, supported by Freelands Foundation.
Finally, we are also sharing news of a series of workshops taking place at Cove Park on Fridays throughout the summer, connected to the Future By Design programme funded by British Council Architecture Design Fashion and The Maple Trust. Read on for more!
Image: The Jacobs Building, June 2021 (photography, Kenneth Macfarlane)
The Ivan Juritz Prize 2021
Award Winners Announced
We are delighted to continue our collaboration with the Ivan Juritz Prize this year and to share news of the award winners taking part in our autumn 2021 programme: composer Erchao Gu, visual artist Edward Gwyn Jones, and writer Nick Makoha.
The Ivan Juritz Prize was established in 2014 to celebrate the creative explosion of the modernist era and reward art that seeks to ‘make it new’. Postgraduate students throughout Europe, either from traditional academic disciplines or from creative courses, are invited to submit texts, films, musical compositions, virtual documentation of artwork, excerpts of moving image work and proposals for installation and performance. Entrants are encouraged to play with form to make us think, feel and question.
The prize is a collaboration between the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture at King’s College London and Cove Park. Further information on the Prize and all its recipients is available here.
Image: Composer Erchao Gu
New Collaborations and Awards from
Arts & Business Scotland
Cove Park is delighted to announce a new collaboration with award-winning design studio Ab Rogers Design, and success across three applications for match-funding from the Culture Business Fund Scotland, through Arts & Business Scotland.
Ab Rogers and his team will work with Cove Park to redesign the interiors of our largest accommodation spaces, Oak and Taransay Pods. This means that from 2022 the Pods will more comfortably house families and groups, and become home to residents staying for longer periods of time, in line with our commitment to reducing carbon emissions by encouraging conscious travel. The Pods will be unveiled in September this year.
Arts & Business Scotland have match-funded Ab Rogers Design’s sponsorship and the funding will go towards a symposium taking place at Cove Park in concomitance with COP26. This 3-day event will bring academics, artists, researchers, makers and writers together to discuss transhistorical and transdisciplinary climate histories and narratives. More will be announced soon.
Arts & Business Scotland are also match-funding in-kind sponsorship from Ghanaian-Filipino agrowaste designer Mae-ling Lokko and Scottish architect Tom Morton of Arc Architects. The funding will bolster the Future By Design programme, supporting four live events around the future of water, co-curated by both Ghanaian and Scottish cohorts of young people, with the guidance and support of Mae-ling and Tom, and delivered by Cove Park. The focus of many of the events and conversations will be the intersectionality of environmental, racial and social justice.
The culmination of Future By Design - a project funded by and in collaboration with British Council Architecture Design Fashion - will be the opening, also in September, of an eco-sustainable open landscape classroom on site at Cove Park, which will house public programmes about the impact of climate change on water for the foreseeable future. Read on for news of a series of workshops taking place this summer as part of this exciting new project.
We are very grateful to Arts & Business Scotland for their generous match-funding across these two programmes. We would also like to thank Bute Fabrics, HAY and Muji for their generous support towards the refurbishment of the Pods.
The full announcement of the Arts & Business Scotland awards is here.
Image: Arts & Business Scotland
Crisis Residency Programme
2020/2021
July sees the continuation of the Crisis Residency Programme and we are delighted to welcome Rhona Jack and Amy Jones to Cove Park this month.
Designed in response to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, this important new series of residencies supports early career visual artists based in Scotland. The crisis continues to have a devastating impact upon artists. Recognising that this is a particularly challenging moment for those in the early stages of establishing their careers, this programme offers essential time, space and financial support to enable the participating artists to reconnect with their practices, focus upon current and new projects without distraction and to share ideas and experiences with peers from a wide range of backgrounds.
We look forward to welcoming the final three artists taking part in the programme later this year: Thomas Abercromby, Rabiya Choudhry, and Natsumi Sakamoto. Information on all 11 participating artists is available here.
The Crisis Residency Programme is supported by Freelands Foundation.
Image: Rhona Jack, Installation view of 'An Isolated Process' at MERZ Gallery, 2020, work made in collaboration with Calum Wallis.
Future by Design Summer Workshops
This month sees the launch of a new series of free Friday workshops, open to families and young people during the summer holidays. These outdoor workshops are connected to Future By Design and the participatory building of a new eco-sustainable and accessible 'open landscape classroom' on site at Cove Park. The classroom will launch in September and allow us to host a range of workshops, projects and community-focussed events.
The forthcoming Friday workshops are led by young artists, architects and landscape designers based in Scotland and involved with Future By Design. Workshops will explore themes and approaches ranging from stop motion animation, sensory mapping, natural dyeing and model making.
To find out more about these workshops, and to book your free place, please visit our Eventbrite page.
We look forward to welcoming you to Cove Park this summer!
Image: Stop Motion Animation Workshop with Ella Campbell, Cove Park, July 2021
