November 2022
As autumn continues we welcome new and former residents and look ahead to our 2023 programme. We are pleased to share new work commissioned by Cove Park, and writing by the Finnish artist Iisa Lepistö on her current Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures residency.
Cove Park's funded residencies continue with artist and designer-maker Soizig Carey and textile designer Mariam Syed. They are joined by former residents and Cove Park Associates, writer Kirsty Logan and visual artist Michael Stumpf.
The Stockholm-based chef and designer Una Hallgrímsdóttir continues her Food Ecologies exchange residency, working alongside the Glasgow-based interdisciplinary artist, chef and Youth Arts Bursary recipient Mathilde N'Doye.
Cove Park's first Young Gaelic Writer Residency - awarded to Mairi Macleod - was devised with Comhairle nan Leabhraichean / Gaelic Books Council and takes place this month. The award includes mentoring from the Isle of Lewis-based playwright, screenwriter and novelist Iain Finlay Macleod.
We are pleased to welcome the Paris-based artist David Douard. His residency is part of Magnetic, a new Franco-UK network bringing together organisations from France and from the UK to create funded opportunities for visual artists based in both countries.
The Talbot Rice Residencies, initiated by Edinburgh's Talbot Rice Gallery, continue with visual artist Eothen Stearn. Eothen joins those taking part in our independently funded programme, researcher and lecturer Kate Cowcher, maker and artist Eyal Edelman, theatre director Ellie Griffiths, and visual artists Patricia Haemmerle and Rowan Paton.
Read on for the announcement of the new residency Associates in Collaboration, our current open call for applications for funded residencies in 2023/24, news of the first screenings in Scotland of work from the 2022 Food Art Film Festival, the opportunity to see the Argyll Beacon commissioned film Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations, the online launch of Katrine Turner's audio work If Our Trees Could Talk, and details of our next Saturday Studio Workshop at Cove Park.
Images: Cove Park's Pods, October 2022 (photography by Martha Sweeney, Saturday Studios Participant).
Associates in Collaboration
We are pleased to announce Associates in Collaboration, a new residency offered within our funded programme in 2023/2024. The deadline for applications is Monday 5 December 2022.
Those working as part of an established collaboration or those working together for the first time are welcome to apply. Although at least one applicant must be a member of Cove Park's Associates Programme (for former residents), national and international artists, creative practitioners, and researchers working in all art forms and creative disciplines are eligible.
Further information on the Associates programme, and how to join, is available here. Details of how to apply for the residency are given in the general open call Application Guidelines.
Images: above, 'We are more dimensional', by Michael Stumpf , 2017 (photography, Kurt Nielse); below, Associate and writer Lisette Auton, Cove Park, 2019 (photography by Alan Dimmick).
Funded Residencies in 2023/2024
Open Call for Applications
Cove Park's annual Open Call for applications is live! Apply now for funded residencies between April 2023 to March 2024.
This programme is open to all national and international artists, creative practitioners, and researchers. Individuals and collaborators at every career stage, working in all art forms, creative practices and disciplines are welcome to apply. For further details please see the Application Guidelines. The deadline is Monday 5 December 2022.
Images: above, the view of Loch Long from Cove Park; below, studios at Cove Park (photography, Tracey Bloxham)
Food Lab Residency
The Food Art Film Festival Comes to Scotland
A new partnership between Cove Park, CCA Glasgow, and Food Lab of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, made possible a residency this autumn at Cove Park and CCA Glasgow for the Amsterdam-based artist Suzanne Bernhardt.
To mark the final week of her residency, Suzanne created food and drink for a Borrel, the Dutch word for a gathering of friends at the end of the working week. The event included screenings of two short films selected by Suzanne for the Food Art Film Festival in Maastricht earlier this year: 'Beans, Rinsed Twice' (2021) by Inês Neto dos Santos and Bella Riza, and 'Llafur Ni – Our Grains' (2021) by Andy Pilsbury.
Details of a future edition of the Food Art Film Festival in Scotland will be shared in forthcoming Newsletters. We are grateful to the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the UK and Mondriaan Funds for their support.
Images: above, Still from 'Beans, Rinsed Twice' (a film by Inês Neto dos Santos and Bella Riza); below, Mathilde N'Doye and Suzanne Bernhardt at Cove Park, November 2022.
Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations Screening Now
Encounters with Climate: Argyll Beacon on Screen and Air Quotes Premiere, a special event organised by Cove Park at CCA Glasgow on 1 November, included the first cinema screening of Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations, a short film by Alison Scott and Rachel McBrinn. To mark this event, the film can be viewed on Cove Park's YouTube Channel during November.
This work was commissioned by the Argyll Beacon: a partnership between ACT: Argyll & the Isles Coast & Countryside Trust and Cove Park, supported by Creative Carbon Scotland (CCS). Filmed across Argyll, the film takes us from the experimental mono-cultural forestry of Kilmun Arboretum, to sites of Atlantic Rainforest at Cormonachan Community Woodland, Taynish National Nature Reserve, Barnluasgan, and recent planting of native tree species at Cove Park.
You can read more about this and the work of all the Scotland-wide Climate Beacons in the CCS commissioned Evaluation Report.
Image: Still from 'Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations' (courtesy of the artists).
Year of Stories 2022 Commission:
If Our Trees Could Talk by Katrine Turner
If Our Trees Could Talk is a new audio work focusing upon the unique habitats of Scotland’s rainforests. Supported by 2022 Year of Stories, Cove Park commissioned the artist Katrine Turner to capture stories from these woodlands. The result is a multi-layered audio piece that intertwines the stories of the plants and trees of Scotland’s endangered indigenous woodlands as imagined by children. Sometimes gentle, sometimes dark, and sometimes humorous, the soundscape of children’s voices reflects on the birth, death and renewal of the forests and challenges the listener to imagine what the future may hold for native plants, trees, natural habitats and for ourselves. This work is now live on Cove Park's YouTube Channel.
Image: 'If Our Trees Could Talk', Katrine Turner, 2022.
Iisa Lepistö on Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures
The Finnish artist Iisa Lepistö spent 8 weeks at Cove Park this summer, and is currently completing a further 8 weeks at Scottish Sculpture Workshop. This residency was awarded following an open call for applications from alumni of Uniarts Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts. Published this month, Iisa's Uniarts Helsinki Blog Post gives a wonderful summary of her experience and the particular working environments offered by Cove Park and SSW.
We look forward to welcoming future recipients of this award in 2023, made possible with support from the Saastamoinen Foundation.
Image: above, Iisa Lepistö, Cove Park, 2022 (photography, Alan Dimmick); below, work in progress at SSW (courtesy of Iisa Lepistö)
Book Now for Saturday Studios
3 December 2022
Our next Saturday Studios Workshop takes place at Cove Park on 3 December, from 10.00am. This workshop will be led by the Edinburgh-based visual artist and recent Cove Park resident Jennie Temple. Looking ahead to the winter holidays, it will be a fun opportunity for young people and their families to make colourful printed winter banners, using heat press disperse dye techniques, and inspired by seasonal flora and fauna.
To find out more about the techniques Jennie uses in her work, and to book your free place, visit our Eventbrite page
Image: Courtesy of Jennie Temple.
