Super-Subsidised Independently Funded Residencies: 18 - 30 September 2023 

Due to a last-minute group cancellation, we have accommodation and studios available from Monday 18 September to Sunday 1 October 2023. We are pleased to offer our Associates a 35% discount on all bookings during this period (this reduction includes the initial 10% discount all Associates receive for independently-funded residencies).

The costs per week are as follows: 

Cube D: £357 
Cube F: £325 
Cube G & Studio: £422
Cube H & Studio: £422 
Oak Pod: £975
Taransay Pod: £975
Studio: £32 

Bookings are offered on a first come first served basis. To book your residency, please contact Nicola Jamieson: nicola@covepark.org 

Image: Cove Park's site overlooking Loch Long.

Food Art Film Festival: Taking Root
Saturday 7 October 2023

Please join us for Taking Root, a special edition of the Food Art Film Festival taking place at CCA Glasgow on Saturday 7 October 2023. This free event includes films, food, workshops, and more, bringing together artists and cooks from the Netherlands and from Scotland.

As society becomes increasingly fragmented, the gathering, preparing, and sharing of food has the power to root us deeply in relation with others both human and non-human. This special edition of the Food Art Film Festival, taking place outside the Netherlands for the first time, takes up the themes of intimacy, connection, and community building, as explored by culinary artists living in the Netherlands and in Scotland, including Associate Sean Wai Keung, Marente van der Valk, Asli Hatipoğlu, and Suzanne Bernhardt. Together these multidisciplinary artists trace the cultural and historical roots of dishes, explore how food processes can produce intimate modes of connection with the land and one’s own body, and share how those uprooted from their homelands are cultivating community through recipe sharing.

Presented in partnership with CCA Glasgow and the Jan Van Eyck Academy’s Food Lab, this one-day programme includes screenings, talks, and unexpected food experiences that celebrate and challenge our branching relations with the food we consume. Following the event, poet, performance maker and foodie Sean Wai Keung will host a collective meal for local community groups as part of his 'Dish of the Week' project. Produced in collaboration with Soul Food Sisters, this project reflects upon the broad history of migration, community and cooking in Glasgow’s Garnethill. 

In the lead up to the event, Sean, Marente and Asli will be taking part in Food Lab Residencies at Cove Park, using this time to develop their work, sharing food knowledge, and forging new collaborations.

Full programme and ticket details will be announced shortly.

This programme is generously supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the UK and Mondriaan Funds.

Images: Associate Sean Wai Keung, photography by Brian Hartley (top);  Asli Hatipoğlu by Rita Couto (left), Marente van der Valk by Marble House Project (right).

Associates' News Bulletin

News from our Associates

Thank you to all the Associates who shared information on forthcoming projects and events. We are always keen to hear about your current work, and happy to share news via this Newsletter and social media.

Works by Sandra Vick will be exhibited at the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2023 Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London from 12-16 September. This exhibition is free to attend. 

Poet William Keohane will perform Boxing Day, a 52-poem sequence detailing his experience of gender transition, on Sunday 17 September as part of Dublin Fringe Festival at Smock Alley Theatre. 

Rachel McBrinn and Alison Scott's commissioned film, Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations will be screened at the Oban Phoenix Cinema on Sunday 17 September. 

Vanessa Hollyoak and Antoine Chesnais's new exhibition Souvenirs is on view at LA Artcore until 17 September. 

Rhona Mühlebach will present Ditch Me, a new exhibition at CCA Glasgow from 23 September - 2 December. 

Julia Samuels is directing Four Dholis And A Divorce, a play in development, on Friday 29 September at the Rochdale Ukranian Centre. Julie will also direct Shakespeare North Playhouse's Christmas production, The Wind in the Willows running at the Cockpit Theatre from 24 November - 13 January 2024.

This Sh*t Happens All The Time, a play by Amanda Verlaque, will be produced at the Grand Opera House, Belfast from 22 March - 30 March 2024.

Image: film still, Ditch Me, Rhona Mühlebach 

Publications, Films & Other Announcements

Earlier this year, Rodge Glass spent 8 weeks at Cove Park writing his memoir and eighth book, Joshua in the Sky, which will soon be published by Taproot Press.

Artist and furniture maker Titus Davies has published a new website  with diary entries of her Cove Park residencies.

Grace Denton's new film All Facing in the Same Direction is available to view on her website. Made in collaboration with 16 neurodivergent participants, the film is about diagnosis, self-governance, language and movement. 

Amber Lee Dodd has been awarded a 2023 Bursary with Moat Brae, the National Centre of Children's Literature.  

Caroline Brothers was awarded a residency at the Vil-la Joana by PEN Catalá and the Barcelona Unesco City of Literature in June. Click here to read more. 

Leah Kaminsky has just published her latest novel Doll's Eye written in part at Cove Park in 2022. 

Lesley McIntyre's work Urban Fabric: Architectural Layers, 2023, was selected to be part of the Architecture Exhibition both online and at the physical exhibition that ran May - June 2023. Click here to visit the online Architecture Viewing Room featuring Lesley's work. 

Tess Taylor published her new anthology, Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Tend Them.

A piece by Fiona Linday will be included in an anthology called 'The Care System As Told By People Who Actually Get it,' edited by Free Loaves on Friday's Rebekah Pierre, to be published in 2024. 

Image: Rodge Glass at Cove Park (photography, Alan Dimmick). 

'The Way In' Exhibition 

In April 2023 a group of artists gathered together for a residency at Cove Park. Led by Fraser Taylor and Lisa Woolley, it offered an opportunity for the artists to develop their own work in the Scottish landscape. Participating artists included Marion Back, Sheena Beaton, Zoe Darbyshire, James Doak, Grace Fisher, Ruby Flowers, Fiona Gibson, Anne Goldrick, Alison Harley, Kim Lyons, Natasha Marshall, Hilary Nicoll, and Simon Townsend.

Immersed in unspoilt nature, and with full use of Cove Park's studio facilities overlooking Loch Long, the artists were able to work intensely without distraction and with the full support of Fraser, Lisa and the group as a whole. 

Each artist developed work based on their own ideas and experiences, and enjoyed the stimulation of working together in communal spaces. An incredibly diverse selection of works were developed as a result. A selection of this work was shown in August at The Project Space at Glasgow's House For An Art Lover.

Image provided by James Doak (photography, Alan Dimmick). 

Study into the Resilience of the
Craft Sector in Europe

Shared by Associate and former Cove Park team member Helen Voce: 

'This survey aims to understand what resilience means to the different cultures and craftspeople across Europe, what makes and could make the craft sector resilient now and in the future, and how world changing events of a global pandemic, a war and a cost of living crisis have impacted the sector and in what ways.

As part of the Study, craft makers, those delivering craft related services (e.g. teaching) and people within craft organisations and businesses (e.g. galleries, retailers, event organisers, academic / training institutions, consultants) are invited to complete a questionnaire.

The questionnaire should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. Through questionnaire contributions, interviews and focus groups we hope to define the impressive nature of the craft sector and its ability to adapt and evolve even under the most challenging of circumstances.'

Commissioned by World Crafts Council Europe, this Study is one of five in the Crafting The Future series co-funded by the European Union.

Image courtesy of Helen Voce.