June 2025
We are delighted to announce Cove Park's Annual Awarded Residencies for 2025 and 2026. Following a general call for applications - which resulted in over 1,200 submissions - we have awarded 25 residencies. Scroll down for more information on the residencies, the participating artists and collaborators, and our specialist advisors. Once again, we would like to thank everyone who took the time to apply and our advisors for their support.
As summer begins, we are pleased to welcome the recipients of current Awarded Residencies: artist Sayan Chanda, bookbinder Toben Lewis, visual artist Harriina Räinä, and hereditary vocalist and performing artist Muslim Shaggan.
Cove Park's Open Residencies welcome novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter Rachelle Atalla, visual artist, researcher, and author Hannah Bartos, fiction writer Liam Bell, artist Vanessa Dorothea, musician, composer and researcher Kristin Hauge, film industry professional and academic researcher Michael Koh Kim, visual artist Aprille McShane, writer Kylie Moppert, artist David Osbaldeston, artist Deirdre Pearce,
photographic artist Vanessa Walters, and academic Elaine Webster.
Many of our Open Residencies are developed in partnership with individual artists and ourganisations. This month, in collaboration with Flanders Literature and the Flip Through Flanders programme, we welcome literary translators Eva Corijn and Jonathan Reeder, and through a
one month residency for interdisciplinary body-based artist Romany Dear, we welcome collaborators including dancer and choreographer Susanne Grau, dancer and performance artist Juana del Mar Jiménez Infante, costume designer, textile artist, and former resident Zephyr Liddell, and filmmaker and writer Jen Martin.
We are also delighted to host for a fifth year recent graduates of the Contemporary Performance Practice course at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. This programme brings ten early career artists to Cove Park: performance maker, arts producer and facilitator Amy Clark, artist Mathilde Darmady, performance maker Tabitha Dearie, artist and facilitator laurie elliott, interdisciplinary artist Noa Ferder, performer, deviser, facilitator, and musician Gemma Legan, performance artist Dianne McConnell, multidisciplinary artist and facilitator Bee McQueen, performance maker and interdisciplinary artist Shaaray Sharif, and sound and performance artist Louise Van Tassel.
Finally, our partnership with Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities resumes this month with a residency for researcher Grace Wright.
Read on for the full announcement of our Annual Awarded Residencies, the call for applications for the 2025 Young Gaelic Writer residency and the 2026 edition of the Magnetic residency exchange progranne, the release of a short film commissioned to mark the recent Bernat Klein Fellowships, an update on NAARCA's programme, the offer of summer 2025 micro residencies, our ongoing series of Open Fridays, our next Friday event with artist Sayan Chanda, and information on Space Hire at Cove Park.
Images: above, Cove Park's site in June (photography, Alan Dimmick); below, Cove Park 25th Anniversary Logo (designed by graphic designer and former resident Maeve Redmond).
Annual Awarded Residencies 2025 & 2026
Programme Announcement
We are delighted to announce the 28 individual artists and collaborators who will be taking part in Annual Awarded Residencies in 2025 and 2026. These fully funded residencies were appointed following a general call for applications open to individuals based in Scotland and the UK, and in Central and South America or its diaspora in Europe and North America. The recipients of these awards are travelling to us from every corner of Scotland and the UK, and from Argentina, Brazil, Honduras, and the US. They are:
YM Abdel-Magied
Nadiyah Abdullatif
Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shaw
Aqsa Arif
Omid Asadi
Debjani Banerjee
Louise Bennetts
Melina Berkenwald
Sarah Chew & Colum Findlay
Anne-Marie Copestake
Karon Sabrina Corrales
Bernardo Cubría & Michael John McCarthy
Emily Doolittle
Harry Josephine Giles
Anne Hardy
Jack Hunter
Nasim Luczaj
Richard McVetis
Grace Ndiritu
Sin Park
Ben Ramsay
Carol Rodrigues
Yuvel Soria
felix taylor
Mohamed Tonsy
Working across craft, dance and choreography, design, fashion, film, moving image, music and composition, literature, poetry, theatre, translation, and the visual arts, the artists will be taking part in residencies running from two to eight weeks.
We would like to thank the Specialist Advisors to this programme: writer and translator Polly Barton, multidisciplinary visual artist and researcher Ashanti Harris, curator and costume designer Sabrina Henry, writer and editor Heather Parry, and dramaturg, facilitator, and maker Luke Pell.
Images: above, Carol Rodrigues (photography courtesy of MALBA); below, Debjani Banerjee, Crying Bitilasana on Yoga Mat, 2024. Ceramic, enamel paint, rhinestones, jewellery, yoga mat and spray paint (photography, Dom Moore, 2025).
Muinntireas do Sgrìobhaiche Gàidhlig Òg
Young Gaelic Writer Residency 2025
Call for Applications
Tha Pàirc na Camais agus Comhairle nan Leabhraichean toilichte a ràdh gu bheil gairm fhosgailte ann airson tagraidhean Muinntireas do Sgrìobhaiche Gàidhlig Òg!
Is e muinntireas làn-mhaoinichte do sgrìobhadairean Gàidhlig eadar 18 agus 30 a th’ anns a' Mhuinntireas do Sgrìobhaiche Gàidhlig Òg, a thathas a’ tabhann airson an treasamh turas. Bidh am muinntireas dà-sheachdain seo a’ tachairt eadar Diluain 27 Dàmhair agus Diluain 10 Samhain 2025, agus gheibh an sgrìobhadair air mhuinntireas tuarastal agus cuibhreann siubhail is rannsachaidh. Is e an ceann-latha airson thagraidhean Dihaoine 25 Iuchar ro 5f BST.
Fiosrachadh prògraim is stiùireadh air iarrtasan.
Tha am muinntireas seo air a mhaoineachadh le Comhairle nan Leabhraichean agus air a chruthachadh ann an co-bhann le Pàirc na Camais.
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Cove Park and The Gaelic Books Council are delighted to announce an open call for applications for the Young Gaelic Writer Residency!
Now in its third edition, 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 27 October to Monday 10 November 2025, and the resident will receive a fee plus travel and research allowance. The deadline for applications is Friday 25 July.
For the application guidelines in Gàidhlig, please click here.
This residency is funded by The Gaelic Books Council and developed in collaboration with Cove Park.
Image: Fine Mayer, recipient of the 2023 Young Gaelic Writer Residency.
Magnetic Residencies 2026
Call for Applications
We are delighted to continue our involvement in the Magnetic Residencies programme, in partnership with Villa Arson, Nice. The Magnetic 4 call for applications is open until Monday 14 July 2025. Cove Park welcomes applications from artists based in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Scotland-based artists are welcome to apply to Villa Arson.
Magnetic, managed by Fluxus Arts Projects, is a Franco-UK network bringing together five organisations from France and five from the UK to create a programme of funded residencies for visual artists based in both countries.
The Magnetic Residencies programme offers a 2-month bespoke residency, £2,100 monthly fee, accommodation, and access to a workspace, curatorial mentoring and international networking opportunities. The selection committees will be held in September and the residencies will start in Winter 2025. The deadline for applications is 14 July 2025 and more information is available here.
Image: Laure Vigna, Magnetic Residency, 2024 (photography, Alan Dimmick)
Bernat Klein Fellowships
Film Release Announcement
Launched this year, the Bernat Klein Fellowships were devised in partnership with the Bernat Klein Foundation. The Fellowships were awarded to the Sweden-based textile artist Moira Nilsson and the Scotland-based textile designer Mariam Syed. Taking place in March this year, the four-week residencies gave both artists the opportunity to engage with the work and archives of textile designer and artist Bernat Klein.
We are pleased to share a short film documenting the the residencies at Cove Park, the Bernat Klein Fellowships Symposium, and Mariam's subsequent residency in Stockholm hosted by project partner Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts, and Design.
You can also read a feature by Mariam Syed on her Swedish residency, hosted by Konstfack, on the Journal pages of the Bernal Klein Foundation website.
We are grateful to the William Grant Foundation and to the Embassy of Sweden in London for their generous support for this programme.
Image: Mariam Syed & Moira Nilsson at Cove Park (photography, Alison Harley)
NAARCA Residencies as Climate Actors
Daria Kravchuk, curator and Head of Partnerships at .ART, interviewed Alex Marrs, Senior Producer at Cove Park, to explore how international artist residencies like the Nordic Alliance of Artists' Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA) are driving climate action through cross-border collaboration.
In this conversation, Alex shares perspectives on the Alliance’s collaborative methodologies, the complexities of embedding sustainability into institutional frameworks, and the expanding role of residencies as both cultural and ecological agents.
Read the full interview here.
NAARCA unites Artica Svalbard (Norway), Cove Park (Scotland), Narsaq International Research Station (Greenland), Saari Residence (Finland), and Skaftfell Art Center (Iceland) to collaborate on research, commissions, institutional change, residency exchange, and public education around climate action.
Image: NAARCA at Saari Well, 2024 (photography, Jussi Virkkumaa)
Summer Micro & One Week Residencies 2025
We are pleased to offer our Summer Micro-Residencies again this year. Available from 14 July to 15 August 2025, Micro-Residencies can be for as short a time as three nights or up to seven nights. These residencies are an ideal opportunity to meet an upcoming deadline or focus upon new projects and research.
Members of Cove Park's Associates programme will also benefit from a subsidised rate for Micro-Residencies.
For more information please contact Nicola Jamieson (Producer, Open Residencies).
Image: Cove Park's site in summer (photography, Alan Dimmick).
Open Fridays 2025
Cove Park's Open Fridays are coming back! Beginning on Friday 4 April, our beautiful 50-acre site will be open to visitors every Friday afternoon, between 1.00pm and 4.00pm, until Friday 29 August 2025.
We welcome visitors from our local community and beyond for tours of the site, to meet the team, and learn more about Cove Park’s programme of residencies and events. In our April Newsletter we will share details of a new forthcoming series of monthly Friday Events, offering talks, screenings, readings, studio visits and more.
Open Fridays are free and everyone is welcome. Refreshments will be available.
Please email Rona Grierson or call 01436 850500 to let us know if you would like to visit and if you have any questions about travelling to Cove Park or site accessibility.
Image: Visitors on site at Cove Park (photography, Alex Marrs).
Cove Park 25th Anniversary Friday Events
Sayan Chanda, 20 June 2025
Join us for a special Open Studio event with London-based artist Sayan Chanda, part of our Friday Event Series celebrating Cove Park’s 25th Anniversary.
This is a unique chance to meet Sayan and see his work in progress. His striking practice reinterprets votive objects, folk divinities, and mythic stories as hybrid, ambiguous forms, framed through themes of identity, gender perception, and postcolonial thought. Using fibre and clay, and techniques such as weaving, stitching, quilting, dyeing, and hand-building, Sayan creates breathtaking work that exists in a speculative landscape untethered from place, culture, and time.
This event is free, but spaces are limited. Please reserve your place via our Ticket Tailor page.
For further details about the Open Studio or directions to Cove Park, please get in touch with Alex Marrs (Senior Producer).
Image: Sayan Chanda (courtesy of Jhaveri Contemporary).
Space Hire 2025
Space Hire welcomes arts organisations, companies, and community groups to Cove Park for meetings and away days. Recent Space Hire participants include: The Common Guild, Comhairle nan Leabhraichean / The Gaelic Books Council, Glasgow International, Missing in Architecture (Glasgow School of Art), The Mount Stuart Trust, Rhubaba, Scottish Opera, and the University of Glasgow (Contemporary Art & Curation).
In 2025 we will continue to offer beautiful spaces and facilities with outstanding views at very competitive rates throughout the year. We are also happy to put groups in touch with local
caterers if lunch is required.
Please submit an enquiry form or contact Nicola Jamieson directly for more information and to discuss your specific requirements.
Missing in Architecture hosted a lunch at Cove Park to bring an interdisciplinary group of researchers, policymakers, community activists, industry professionals and artists, creating an opportunity for cross-pollination of ideas and experiences, fostering long-term collaboration through the meal, titled FOOD FOR THOUGHT. We were delighted to be at Cove Park, the perfect setting for a collaborative lunch! Nestled around the heart of the building – between hearth and kitchen, the building held us and allowed convivial conversation. An opportunity to step out of the city and busy lives, Cove Park and the surroundings allowed us all to slow down and enjoy some time and space to enjoy the tasting and testing of ideas.
Miranda Webster, Missing in Architecture, February 2025
Image: Missing in Architecture event, February 2025.
