June 2022June sees the first of this year's funded residencies, awarded following an open call in the autumn of 2021. Over the course of the next ten months we welcome individuals and groups from Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, France, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, the US, Scotland and the wider UK, taking part in residencies lasting up to three months. In June we welcome Japanese to English translator Polly Barton, photographer and moving image
artist Edd Carr, international research collective CAAS: City As A Spaceship (including visual artist and amateur astronomer Rohini Devasher; designer, educator, and researcher Sue Fairburn; space architecture and design researcher Barbara Imhof; and spaceship designer Susmita Mohanty), writer Tim Fab-Eme, and artist-filmmaker and researcher Hope Strickland. Our independently-funded programme continues during the summer, bringing artists and researchers to Cove Park from the UK and beyond. This month we host artist, poet and musician Molly Astley; social justice activist, barrister, and writer Professor Radha D'Souza; and psychologist, artist, and facilitator Myles-Jay Linton. Dylan Bonnar, the second of Cove Park's Youth Arts Bursary recipients to take part in our residency programme, joins us in June to work on a new Scottish Musical Tam O'Chanter. The Bursary programme supports early-career practitioners based in Scotland working in design, digital practice, literature and theatre. We are also pleased to host Ras Akyem and Rodell Warner, both here for three-week residencies as part of The World Reimagined, a ground-breaking national art education project to transform how we understand the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans and its impact on us all. Cove Park is one of 21 Scottish partners hosting artists through the RSA Residencies for Scotland programme. We welcome Rhona Warwick Paterson this month for a residency that will support the development of a new collaborative project commissioned by Mount Stuart.
Read on for announcements of forthcoming dance and choreography residencies developed in collaboration with The Work Room, a new Food Ecologies residency exchange programme, updates on our Unexpected Gardens, and the final Saturday Studios workshop as part of the Argyll Beacon programme. Image: The view across to Loch Long from Cove Park's Accommodation.
The Work Room and TanzFaktur at Cove Park:
Residencies & EventsWe are pleased to announce that Cove Park, in collaboration with The Work Room and TanzFaktur Cologne, will welcome two of the ten dance artists joining the CROWD - international dance exchange
2022 programme this summer, funded by the Goethe-Institut, Arts Council England, NRW KULTURsekretariat, Nordisk Kulturfond and Creative Scotland.
The Work Room and TanzFaktur are both members of CROWD, a collaborative network of international dance organisations, together seeking to support dance makers who engage with communities as part of their practice. The dance artists traveling to Scotland for residencies at The Work Room and at Cove Park are Alex McCabe (Glasgow/Milan) and Stefanie Schwimmbeck (Cologne). As part of Cove Park's ongoing European Residency Programme,
McCabe and Schwimmbeck have been invited to devise and lead two free movement workshops at Cove Park on Saturday 23 July. Moving Together is an opportunity to take part in a relaxed, interactive and imaginative family workshop, inviting children of all ages and their grown-ups to explore and make dance together. For further information and to reserve your place please visit Cove Park's Eventbrite page. We would also like to invite dance artists, choreographers, and practitioners from our local and neighbouring regions to join McCabe, Schwimmbeck and the Director of The Work Room, Anita Clark, for an informal peer-to-peer event at
Cove Park on Friday 22 July, from 11.00am - 2.00pm. This is an opportunity to meet, move together, share experiences and news of current projects, and to learn more about current programmes at The Work Room and Cove Park. If you would like to attend this free event, or find out more, please contact Cove Park's Programmes and Communications Producer Alex Marrs. Images: above, Stefanie Schwimmbeck; below, Alex McCabe.
Food Ecologies Residencies AnnouncedFood Ecologies is a pilot residency exchange programme between Scotland and Sweden, and a partnership between Cove Park, IASPIS - the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts, and Linnaeus University. The project is co-founded by IASPIS and British Council Architecture Design Fashion through its Circular Cultures programme.
The residencies are aimed at practitioners and researchers based in the UK and Sweden working around the politics and economics of food, with a focus upon design to develop and implement just, circular and sustainable practices.
We are thrilled to announce that the residency for a UK-based practitioners, which will take place at Linnaeus University in Växyö, has been awarded to Studio Hotmess, a collaboration between Charlotte Moore and Maria Saeki, working across art, performance, and design. Cove Park will host the Stockholm-based food activist and designer Una Hallgrímsdóttir. More information on the artists is available here. Both residencies will take place later this year and we look forward to working with everyone involved over the coming months. Image: Above, Studio Hotmess, Edible Hinterlands, Cornwall, UK. (photography by Charlotte Moore & Maria Saeki)
Saturday Studios: Sensory Forests
Alkmini Gkousiari & Michaela BlairThis month's Saturday Studio workshop takes place on 25 June. Former resident Alkmini Gkousiari and Argyll-based environmentalist Michaela Blair will lead an immersive workshop focusing on the plant life around Cove Park, embarking on a sensory exploration of the trees, mosses, ferns and lichens that inhabit our native woodlands. This workshop includes relief printing and recording shapes and textures while learning about the tastes and smells of our woodland plants. We have just a few places left, so to find out more and reserve your free place
on either the morning or afternoon workshops, please visit Cove Park's Eventbrite page. 'Sensory Forests' is part of the Argyll Beacon programme of projects, events, and commissions focussing upon Scotland's rainforests and devised jointly by Cove Park and ACT: Argyll & the Isles Coast & Countryside Trust. The Argyll Beacons is one of 7 nationwide Climate Beacons launched in advance of the COP26 Conference in Glasgow in 2021, bringing climate change or environmental organisations together with arts, heritage, or cultural organisations to stimulate long-term public engagement and climate action. Image: Cove Park's Bridge (photography by Ruth Clark)
Unexpected Gardens: Openings and Forthcoming EventsWe are pleased to announce that Cove Park's Unexpected Gardens are officially opening on Friday 23 June. Our team will be at Centre 81 in Garelochhead from 2-4pm and then at Cove Sailing Club from 6-8pm. The gardens are a work in progress and we are inviting all interested parties to come and find why we are creating them and how they can get involved. If you would like to find out more or enquire about opening hours or access please contact Unexpected Gardens Creative Producer Jill Lee. Thank you to everyone who responded to our Call for Artists to take part in two forthcoming projects: Dandelion Day Camp in July and Cove Park's Unexpected Picnic in August. Day Camp is a pilot project within Cove Park's engagement programme. It will welcome up to 20 children between 8 - 12 years of age for a week long-programme of creative activity at Cove Park during the school holidays. Taking place from Monday 25 - Friday 29 July, the activities will be devised and led by former residents - visual artist Laura
Aldridge and writer Alison Irvine; participants will also take part in sculptural, food, and instrument-making activities created for the Camp by visual artist Hannah Brackston and sound and performance artist Siôn Parkinson, the commissioned artists working on
the Unexpected Gardens. Registration for the Camp will go live on Wednesday 29 June. For more information please contact Cove Park's Curator of Engagement, Emma Henderson. The Unexpected Picnic will take place at Cove Park on Saturday 6 August from 1-5pm. This free event celebrates the new Unexpected Gardens created on the Rosneath Peninsula, and all those who have contributed to their creation. The afternoon will include food, music, and activities for all. We are pleased to announce that the artists invited to design activities for this event are Vicky Dale, Caitlin Dick, Jasmine Kerr, and Nicky Salmon. Image: Engagement workshop at Cove Park, spring 2022.
Call for Applications:
Director of Development - Deadline ExtendedCove Park is seeking a Director of Development to join our team. This is a new role, developed in response to the ambitions of Cove Park, its renewed vision and expanding programme, and the current funding climate. Further information is available here. Please note the deadline for applications has been extended to 22 July 2022. Image: The Jacobs Building, Cove Park.
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