September 2023
As Autumn begins we are pleased to welcome fiction and non-fiction writer Kirsty Crawford back to Cove Park this month for the final week of her funded residency. She is joined through this programme by artist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Coby Sey. Coby will return to Cove Park in 2024 to continue work initiated this year.
An award from the Turtleton Charitable Trust has made possible two residencies this year for makers or designers based in Scotland and aged 50+. Both residencies take place this month and we are excited to welcome furniture designer Isabelle Moore and maker, visual artist, and Associate Anna Olson.
Our partnership with Comhairle nan Leabhraichean / The Gaelic Books Council continues with the second Young Gaelic Writer residency, awarded to Fine Mayer. To mark the end of her residency, Fine presented work in progress to a group including colleagues from Comhairle nan Leabhraichean / The
Gaelic Books Council, the recipient of the 2022 Young Gaelic Writer residency Mairi Macleod, writer and Fine's mentor Alistair Paul, and writers and former residents Zoe Strachan and Louise Welsh.
Cove Park's Independently Funded programme continues throughout the autumn, welcoming writers, former residents and Cove Park Associates Anna Bambridge and Alison Irvine, poet Clementine Burnley, author Kristina Marie Darling, theatre maker and performer Hannah Low, artist Hannah Morgan, artist Meara Sharma, writer, screenwriter, and teacher AV (Adam Vaughn), and visual artist and writer Annette Weisser.
Read on for several exciting new programme announcements, including Food Lab Residencies and the Food Art Film Festival, a call for applications for the next Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency, the announcement of our multi-partner and international Musical Theatre Writing Residency, the call for applications to our popular programme of Winter Subsidised Residencies between January and March 2024, the second Project Studio session led by artist Duncan Marquiss, and our community Garden Party at the Unexpected Garden, Centre 81 in Garelochhead.
News from our Board and Team
We are thrilled to announce the addition of six new Trustees to Cove Park's Board. Bringing a wealth of experience in a wide range of specialisms, our new Trustees join us at a key time in Cove Park's development as we look towards our 25th anniversary in 2025. Our new Trustees are: multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and former resident Ashanti Harris, communications specialist Eric Latzky, writer and former resident Heather Parry, international programme manager Parvinder Marwaha, operations and hospitality manager Marianne Stark, and Chair of the Mount Stuart Trust Sophie Crichton Stuart.
Welcoming the new Trustees, Cove Park's Chair, Lauren Dyer Amazeen, writes, 'It is my pleasure to extend a hearty warm welcome to our new Trustees. We are all delighted to have this range of talented individuals join our Board. Each generously contributes particular knowledge and a new voice to the conversation, as we continue to collaboratively build a sustainable future for Cove Park.'
We are also very pleased to welcome Cat Auburn to our Team. Cat is an artist and researcher based in Helensburgh, and will support Site Manager Thom Rees with site and facilities maintenance and development. Biographies of all of our Trustees and Team are available here.
Please read on for more and we hope everyone enjoys the autumn ahead.
Images: The view of Loch Long from Cove Park.
Food Lab Residencies and the
Food Art Film Festival: Taking Root
CCA Glasgow Saturday 7 October 2023
We are delighted to announce our second year of Food Lab Residencies at Cove Park and the first Food Art Film Festival in Scotland, taking place at CCA Glasgow on Saturday 7 October.
Food Lab residencies are developed in partnership with the Food Lab of Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands, and this year we welcome culinary artist and Food Lab coordinator Marente van der Valk, and former Food Lab resident and artist Asli Hatipoğlu.
The Food Lab Residencies culminate in the Food Art Film Festival (FAFF), a special one day event organised in partnership with CCA Glasgow. FAFF was launched in 2018 as part of the Food and Nature Labs' programmes at the Jan van Eyck Academie. This is the first time the event has taken place in another country, and we are pleased to bring artists working in the Netherlands together with artists and organisations based in Scotland for a day of screenings, talks, workshops, and food.
Cove Park's Food Lab programme coincides with a residency for the poet, interdisciplinary and community artist Sean Wai Keung. A former Cove Park resident, Sean will also take part in FAFF through his current CCA Glasgow project Dish of the Week. We are also pleased to welcome the artists Suraia Abud Coaik and Heidi Hornáčková, taking part in the We, the Landscape Residency & Research Project, bringing more artists together for FAFF from Scotland, the Czech Republic and Uruguay/Lebanon.
For more information on the event and to book your free tickets please visit CCA Glasgow's website.
Image: Artist Asli Hatipoğlu (photography, Rita Couto).
Musical Theatre Writing Residency
We are thrilled to announce a new residency for musical theatre writers taking place from 4-17 March 2024. The Musical Theatre Writing Residency is a two-week international exchange programme for emerging and established book writers, composers, and lyricists from the UK, India, and the United States.
Co-led by Cove Park and Dundee Rep, this residency has been devised by Andrew Panton, Artistic Director of Dundee Rep, and will include facilitated sessions with Dramaturg Jeanie O’Hare, Music Supervisor Nigel Lilley, Artistic Director of Goodspeed Musicals, Donna Lynn Hilton, and Artistic Director of Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, David Greig. The programme also includes networking opportunities and workshops, in-person and digital, with industry professionals – such as director John Doyle, Broadway producers Mara Isaacs and Rashad V. Chambers, and more.
Applications to take part in this residency are being accepted from UK-based teams of up to three collaborators who have a musical theatre idea in need of development and would benefit from the residency experience to take it to the next stage in its creation. The participating artists from India and the United States will be selected separately through nominations from our international partners.
Visit the Musical Theatre Writing Residency website for more information and how to apply. Applications are open until 20 October 2023.
The Musical Theatre Writing Residency is presented by Cove Park and Dundee Rep Theatre in partnership with Capital Theatres, Citizens Theatre, Macrobert Arts Centre, National Centre for the Performing Arts – Mumbai, National Theatre of Scotland, Octopus Theatricals – New York City, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, and Traverse Theatre. Associate partners include A Play, A Pie and a Pint, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Playwrights’ Studio Scotland, and Tron Theatre.
This pilot residency is majority-funded as part of the British Council & Creative Scotland Partnership: Connect & Collaborate.
Images; Above, the theatre at National Center for Performing Arts, Mumbai; below, Dundee Rep, Co-Lead with Cove Park on the Musical Theatre Writing Residency.
Call for Applications:
Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures 2024
We are pleased to share the call for applications for the third year of Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures, a residency offered in partnership with Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts in Finland and Scottish Sculpture Workshop. This 16-week residency focuses upon making practices in a time of climate breakdown, and is open to alumni from MFA or DFA alumni of the Academy who work with sculptural methods or material processes.
The resident will be offered 8 weeks at Cove Park during the spring and early summer next year, followed by 8 weeks at SSW. Further information on this programme and details of how to apply is available here.
This programme is made possible by a donation to Uniarts Helsinki from the Saastamoinen Foundation.
Image: Santtu Laine, Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures resident, 2022 (photography, Alan Dimmick).
Subsidised Winter Residencies 2024
Call for Applications Now Live
We are pleased to announce details of our popular annual programme of Subsidised Winter Residencies in 2024.
Cove Park offers residencies for individuals, groups, and organisations with their own funding to take part in our annual programme. We welcome artists, cultural practitioners, writers, and researchers - from every creative and academic discipline - able to fund a residency via the direct support of their own academic institutions or through awards from public funders or foundations.
Cove Park's Subsidised Winter Residencies will take place during January, February, and March 2024. During this time we are pleased to offer a reduction on the cost of individual and collaborative residencies. Applications for these residencies can be submitted on a rolling basis from Friday 22 September 2023 until 4 March 2024, in the hope that those interested will have the time required to request funding from their own organisations or external funding agencies. Further information and details of how to apply for a subsidised residency is available here.
Image: The Jacobs Building at Cove Park (photography, Alan Dimmick)
Last Chance to See:
Open Fridays and Double Flower
Cove Park's series of Open Fridays end on Friday 6 October. Visitors are very welcome to see Double Flower by Louise Hopkins - a new project commissioned by Cove Park - to 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 run from 1-5pm. 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).
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)
Project Studio
Visible Music with Duncan Marquiss
Thursday 28 September, 4-6pm
The next Project Studio takes place at the Park Pavilion in Hermitage Park, Helensburgh, on Thursday 28 September. Led by artist, musician, and former resident Duncan Marquiss, this new workshop will explore ways of generating imagery in response to music, using simple camera, video-editing and animation techniques.
Project Studio is a Cove Park programme for teenagers in our local area made possible with a generous award from the National Lottery Community Fund. Launched in June, Project Studio offers 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.
This programme is supportive to young people experiencing ADHD, dyslexia, and autism. Please let us know how we can support you best.
We are pleased to share some good news: an award from The Stafford Trust will allow us to extend Project Studio and offer more events, building on the work enjoyed so far.
Book your free place here. For further information please contact Cove Park's Curator of Engagement, Emma Henderson.
Images: Above, courtesy of Duncan Marquiss; below, Duncan Marquiss at Cove Park (photography, Emma Henderson).
Join us for the Unexpected Garden Party
Centre 81 Garelochhead
Saturday 30 September, 2-4pm
In 2022 Cove Park was one of 11 organisations selected by Dandelion Scotland to develop Unexpected Gardens in local public spaces, to show that even the unlikeliest of places can bloom. A section of a carpark at Centre 81 in Garelochhead, a local community centre and youth project, was transformed into a vibrant and thriving community garden. In just one year the Centre 81 Unexpected Garden has grown from strength to strength, expanding into new space on the site and providing vegetables, fruit, flowers, and fun for all its visitors.
Join us on Saturday 30 September to celebrate the garden with those who have created and cared for it. The afternoon will include a BBQ, games, creative activities, plant and seed give-aways, gardening demonstrations and advice.
This event is free of charge and everyone is welcome. For further information, please contact Cove Park's Curator of Engagement, Emma Henderson.
Images: Above, the Unexpected Garden at Centre 81 in September 2023 (photography by Katie Mackay, Centre Manager); below, the Garden in 2022 (photography, Alan Dimmick).
