June 2023
We are thrilled to launch Double Flower, a new project by the Glasgow-based visual artist Louise Hopkins. Commissioned by Cove Park, Double Flower is shown in the Jacobs Building and visitors will be welcome every Friday from 30 June to 15 September 2023. Read on for more information on the commission and our open days.
Several new funded residencies, awarded via our 2022 open call for applications, take place in June. We are very pleased to welcome visual artist Andy Holden, theatre maker, set and costume designer Lizzy Leech, and multidisciplinary artist Jian Yi. These residencies run alongside those for former residents and Cove Park Associates Ashanti Harris and Rodge Glass, made possible with funding from Creative Scotland's Open Fund for Individuals.
The Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities Residencies continue with University of Abertay PhD researcher Ahmed El Shaer, and we welcome creative producer, curatorial assistant and PhD researcher Flo Fitzgerald-Allsopp on a six-week Techne funded Professional Development Residency.
Cove Park's Independently Funded Programme continues throughout the summer and this month hosts critic and essayist Farah Abdessamad, painter and illustrator Kerry McGee, illustrator and lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art Lucy Roscoe, and architect, curator and designer Tom Veeger.
June sees our first Ecological Economics Residency, a new group residency for tutors and students from the MSc Ecological Economics programme at the University of Edinburgh and Scotland's Rural College. Developed in collaboration with Cove Park, this residency includes artist-led creative workshops.
Read on for news of the first Scotland-Ukraine Arts Residencies, the announcement of Cove Park's forthcoming Associates Residencies, open calls for the Gaelic Young Writer residency and the ViceVersa Translation programme, and the launch this month of Project Studio.
Image: The Jacobs Building, June 2023 (photography, Alan Dimmick)
Cove Park Commission
Double Flower, Louise Hopkins
30 June - 15 September 2023
Double Flower is an outstanding new body of work by the Glasgow-based visual artist Louise Hopkins. Commissioned by Cove Park, the prints, paintings, and performance were developed through a series of site visits and research residencies which allowed Louise to work in Cove Park’s studios and directly in the landscape overlooking Loch Long.
Double Flower is presented within Cove Park's Jacobs Building and in the communal spaces used by residents and visitors for meetings, gatherings, and study. Installed at the time of the summer equinox, Double Flower will end as the season changes in September. A new text by artist, writer and former resident Sarah Tripp, written in response to Double Flower, accompanies this project.
Further information on the commission is available here. Read on for information on visiting Cove Park this summer to see Double Flower and our forthcoming series of Open Fridays.
Double Flower is made possible with kind support from the Hope Scott Trust, Outset Contemporary Art Fund, and the Young Presidents Organisation.
Image: 'Double Flower Performance Outtake', Louise Hopkins, 2023, Archival Digital Print (photography, Alan Dimmick)
Open Fridays at Cove Park
Summer 2023
Cove Park will be open to visitors every Friday afternoon, between 1pm and 5pm, from Friday 30 June to Friday 15 September 2023. Visitors are welcome to see Double Flower by Louise Hopkins, explore our beautiful 50-acre site, learn more about Cove Park's residency and engagement programmes, and meet the team.
Open Fridays are free and everyone is welcome.
Cove Park is just one hour from Glasgow and accessible by public transport. Information on how to travel to us is available here.
Double Flower can also be seen by appointment on an alternative day. To arrange your visit please email Alex Marrs (Programmes & Communications Producer).
Image: Louise Hopkins at Cove Park, 2017 (photography, Alan Dimmick)
Scotland - Ukraine Arts Residencies
Cove Park is honoured to be one of five Scottish residencies to host Ukrainian arts professionals as part of a unique pilot residency taking place in 2023. Scotland-Ukraine Art Residencies is a new programme delivered in partnership between British Council Scotland, Creative Scotland, and The Ukrainian Institute.
Taking place over seven months, this pilot project will see six leaders and decision makers from the Ukrainian arts sector visit and stay at arts organisations across Scotland. A bespoke programme will be created for each participant, offering them time away from turmoil and a chance to reflect and think to the future for their own artistic practices, their organisations, and the wider art sector in Ukraine.
Cove Park will welcome the Ukrainian cultural manager, theatre producer, and curator Veronika Skliarova in July 2023. We look forward to working with Veronika, and to connecting with the other residents in all the partner organisations. More information on this programme is available from British Council Scotland's programme announcement.
Image: Veronika Skliarova.
Associates Residencies Announced
Cove Park's Associates Programme creates new opportunities for our former residents. We are delighted to announce three new residencies taking place this year.
Awarded following an open call for applications, the Associates Maker/Designer Residency has been awarded to artist, maker and former independently funded resident Anna Olson, the Associates Artists in Schools Residency to writer and former independently funded resident Amber Lee Dodd, and the Associates Early Career Residency to 2022 Youth Arts Bursary resident Mathilde N'Doye.
The Associates Artists in Schools Residency is offered in collaboration with John Logie Baird Primary School, Helensburgh. The Associates Early Career Residency includes mentoring and the opportunity to work with Cove Park's Curator of Engagement, Emma Henderson, on the development of a Saturday Studios workshop as part of our engagement programme.
We are grateful to The Turtleton Charitable Trust for their support of the Associates Maker/Designer residency and to the Hugh Fraser Foundation for their support of the Artists in Schools and Early Career Residencies.
Image: Mathilde N'Doye.
Call for Applications:
Young Gaelic Writer Residency 2023
Now in its second year, the Young Gaelic Writer Residency is a fully funded residency for Gaelic writers aged between 18 and 30.
This two-week residency will take place from Monday 4 September to Sunday 17 September 2023, and the resident will receive a fee, a travel and research allowance, and one-to-one bespoke mentoring with an established Gaelic writer. The deadline for applications is Monday 26 June 2023 (by noon) and more information is available here.
The Young Gaelic Writer Residency is the result of a partnership between Cove Park and Comhairle nan Leabhraichean / The Gaelic Books Council.
Image: Mairi Macleod, recipient of the 2022 Young Gaelic Writer Residency, pictured at Saari Residence, 2023 (photography by Jussi Virkkumaa).
Call for Applications
ViceVersa Translation Workshop
13-19 November 2023
We are delighted to host in November this year the ViceVersa Translation Workshop for literary translators from English to German and German to English. Five translators working in each direction will have an opportunity to present and discuss the specific texts they are working on. This one-week workshop will be led by Katy Derbyshire and Tanja Handels. More information on the programme and how to apply is available here. The deadline for applications is 15 July 2023.
This programme is organised by TOLEDO, a programme of the Deutscher Übersetzerfonds and supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (Germany), in collaboration with Cove Park and Goethe Institut Glasgow.
Image: ViceVersa, Deutsch-BKMS Tribalj/Kroatien, 2019, Luka Godec.
Project Studio Launched
Project Studio is a new Cove Park programme made possible with a generous award from the National Lottery Community Fund. We were delighted to launch this project in Helensburgh on 6 June.
Project Studio is for teenagers in our local community, and includes free monthly creative activity - including workshops, trips, and events - centred around self-expression and creating community for teenagers interested in the arts, activism, environmentalism, and wellbeing.
The first Project Studio welcomed a wonderful group of young people to the Park Pavilion Café, Hermitage Park in Helensburgh for food, conversation, and zine-making. If you would like to learn more about this project, or take part in the future, please contact Cove Park's Curator of Engagement Emma Henderson.
Images: above, Project Studio, logo designed by Emma Henderson; below, the launch of Project Studio, Helensburgh, June 2023.
