Summer Programme Announcement

We are pleased to announce details of our forthcoming summer programme. Scroll down for information on all the artists awarded Crafts & Design, Experimental Film & Moving Image, Literature, Participatory Arts and Visual Arts residencies this year. The majority of these residencies were awarded following an open call for applications; others were devised in partnership with national and international arts organisations. More information on each residency and the participating artists is available on our website.

We look forward to welcoming all the participating artists to Cove Park and to working with all our partners and supporters in 2019. 

The partners working with Cove Park on the new European Residency Programme were announced on 29 March 2019. Working with leading arts organisations in Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, The Netherlands and Sweden, Cove Park will offer eight residencies to artists from these nations in 2019. Scroll down to find out more.

This is the final Newsletter before the launch of the 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia in May. Charlotte Prodger was selected by the Scotland + Venice partnership to represent Scotland and the project is commissioned by curator Linsey Young with Cove Park. We are looking forward to the opening of this presentation on 11 May and to sharing further information on the project very soon. 
 

Image: The view of Loch Long over Cove Park's Cubes and Pods. Photography, Ruth Clark

Crafts & Design

Cove Park's Crafts & Design programme supports national and international artists working in a wide range of specialisms, providing residencies of between 4 to 7 weeks to enable studio-based research and the development of new work. In 2019 we will welcome: weaver Raisa Kabir (UK), illustrator Oliver Pitt (Scotland), ceramicist Alice Walton (UK), ceramicist Natalie Weinberger (USA) and jeweller Heather Woof (Scotland). 

We would like to thank former residents and ceramicists James Rigler and Dawn Youll for their help in selecting this year's residents.

Image: AliceWalton, Mirasi Lock. Photo by Sylvain Deleu

Experimental Film and Moving Image

This is the second year of Cove Park's programme dedicated to artists based in Scotland and working with film and moving image. The participating artists in 2019 are: Mark Briggs, Annie Crabtree, Adam Lewis-Jacob and Duncan Marquiss.

We would like to thank Rachael Disbury (Programme Manager, Alchemy Film & Arts) and Nicole Yip (Director, LUX Scotland) for their support in shortlisting the applications received for this programme.

Image: Duncan Marquiss, 'Search Film', 2016 (image courtesy of Duncan Marquiss)

Literature

Seven literature residencies have been awarded this year, two to the established writers, poet Jo Bell (England) and prose writer Jan Carson (Northern Ireland), and five to emerging artists from Scotland: Garry MacKenzie (poetry), Anna Stewart (fiction), Conor Cleary (poetry), Jeda Pearl Lewis (fiction) and Rebecca Raeburn (fiction). 

Also joining us this summer will be Louise Kramskoy, recipient of the Birkbeck/Sophie Warne Fellowship, and Roanna Gonsalves, a novelist and short-story writer from New South Wales, Australia, via India, as part of our exchange programme with Varuna, the National Writers’ House of Australia and supported by The Bridge Awards. Simultaneously, Varuna will be welcoming Scottish writer Vicky MacKenzie in July/August.

We will also host translator Hsiang-Ying Kuo in a continuation of our programme for Taiwanese writers and translators.

We would like to thank Dr. Elizabeth Reeder, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, and Aly Barr, Deputy Director of the Scottish Poetry Library, for their help in choosing this year’s literature residency recipients, as well as Veechi Stuart and Amy Sambrooke at Varuna for their help in shortlisting writers and for hosting a Scottish resident. 

We are grateful to our funders: The Bridge Awards, the Sophie Warne family and the Cultural Division of the Taipei Representative Office in the UK.

Image: Cove Park's Library, Artists Centre

Participatory Arts

Introduced this year, the Participatory Arts Residency supports artists based in the UK and working in participatory arts. This three-week residency attracted over forty applications and we are grateful to storyteller, performer and facilitator Daniel Serridge for his help with the appointment process. Three artists/collaborative groups were shortlisted and we are pleased to be working with all of them in some way during 2019. 

The three-week residency was awarded to Cardiff-based artists Clare Charles and Becca Thomas. Clare and Becca combine their own artistic practice with running creative spaces in Wales: Clare is Director of Arcade and Campfa and Becca co-directs Spit and Sawdust, a multi-aspect community space. Clare and Becca will be reflecting upon their solo and collaborative work and thinking about future projects.

Image: Cove Park's Cubes, Arran Bute and Cumbrae (image, Ruth Clark)

Visual Arts

Funded Visual Arts Residencies this year have been awarded to the Scotland and UK-based artists Emilia Beatriz, Raydale Dower, Alec Finlay, Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir and Giles Round. With support from The Bridge Awards, the one-month Emerging Artist Residency has been awarded to Ashanti Harris.

We would like to thank Graham Domke, Eileen Jacobs and Francis McKee for their help with the the appointment process this year.

The International Visual Arts programme will welcome artists from France, Japan and The Netherlands to Cove Park this year. Further details on these appointments will be announced soon. In addition, through a collaboration with TENT Rotterdam, we will host the Siberian performance artist Natalia Papaeva, winner of the TENT Academy Awards in 2018.

Working in partnership with the RSA Residencies for Scotland programme we will welcome Madeleine Virginia Brown to Cove Park in July for a four-week residency. We look forward to being part of this nationwide programme for the first time.

Image: Installation view: Giles Round, The Director, The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire, 2018. Courtesy the artists and The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photography: Jules Lester

European Residency Programme

In February 2019 Cove Park was awarded funding from British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland to develop a new residency programme produced in collaboration with partners based in EU nations. The aim of this programme is to maintain and develop cultural partnerships between Scotland and EU nations at a pivotal moment in the cultural landscape of Europe. On 29 March Cove Park announced its 8 project partners: leading arts organisations and residency centres based in 8 European nations:

Belgium: Ultima Vez
Finland: Helsinki International Artist Programme and MUU Galleria
France: Cité internationale des arts
Germany: Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
Ireland: Dance Ireland
Norway*: Nordic Artists Centre Dale
The Netherlands: SEA Foundation
Sweden: The Swedish Film Institute

Find out more about this programme and our supporters here.

Image: Cove Park's Cubes, Arran Bute and Cumbrae (image, Ruth Clark)

National Theatre of Scotland Residency

We welcome Beldina Ondenyo, from National Theatre of Scotland’s Starter Programme, to Cove Park this month. Beldina is a vocalist, guitarist, poet and writer creating work between the fields of music and theatre. Her work attempts to explore the differences and kinship between her dual Kenyan and Scottish heritage through words, music and visual art.

Image: Beldina Ondenyo

Hands-On in April

With school holidays taking place this month, Hands-On is focussed on a full programme of Easter Studios for primary and secondary school age children and children with accompanying adults. Workshop tutors include former residents Lauren Gault and Mirka Janeckova. Saturday Studios continues this month with sessions led by Laura Aldridge and Mirka Janeckova. For further information and to book your free place, please visit the Hands-On page of our website.

Image: Saturday Studios Workshop with Laura Aldridge, January 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, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, The Fenton Arts Trust and The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.