December 2024
In this final Newsletter of 2024, we are pleased to share news of all our current residencies and a number of exciting programme and site development announcements for 2025.
Cove Park's Awarded Residencies in December continue with visual artists Cat Auburn, here for a four-week residency with RSA Residencies for Scotland, and Violaine Barrois, joining us for an eight-week residency through the Magnetic programme of Franco-UK residencies. We are also pleased to welcome writer and translator Csilla Toldy.
Our Open Residencies continue with artist Matilda Bevan, photographer and videographer Jo Birch, visual artist and ceramicist Katie Molyneaux Brooks, artist and writer Carl Gent, writer and former resident Rodge Glass, composer and musician Quentin Grant with cellist and singer-songwriter Clara Gillam Grant and artist and musician Miranda Gillam Grant, writer Hadley Hammer, interdisciplinary creative, somatic educator and psychotherapist Solasta Lucky McIntyre, writer Elle Nash, visual artist Sarah Robinson, and writer, screenwriter, and teacher Adam Vaughn.
This year's Associates Artist in Schools residency - which saw a programme of activity with John Logie Baird Primary School, Helensburgh - concludes in December with the welcome return of artist and former resident Katie Schwab.
We would like to send our congratulations to former resident
Jasleen Kaur. Jasleen was awarded the 2024 Turner Prize this month and is currently presenting work at Tate Britain which was first shown in an outstanding solo exhibition, 'Alter Altar', in 2023 at Tramway, Glasgow. We are thrilled for Jasleen and have very happy memories of her 2015 residency here at Cove Park.
Finally, we are also pleased to announce that the first phase of Cove Park's Renewable Energy Programme will begin in January 2025. Earlier this year, Cove Park was awarded funds from Local Energy Scotland / Scottish Government's Community & Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES) and The Foyle Foundation to make possible the installation of air source heat pumps and solar panels.
Read on for programme announcements including the Creative Kernow Associates Residency, the Creative Producers Residency and the Commercial Theatre Producing Seminar, the call for applications for the 2025 Bridge Awards Residencies and for a new Early Career Performing Artist Residency.
We would like to wish all of our friends and supporters a very happy holiday season.
Images: above; Taransay Pod and Cove Park's Highland Cows; below, artist Jasleen Kaur at Cove Park in 2015 (photography, Eoin Carey).
Creative Kernow Residency Announced
In partnership with Creative Kernow, we are delighted to announce that Melanie Stidolph has been selected for the first Creative Kernow Associates residency at Cove Park. Melanie will spend two weeks at Cove Park in March 2025, a period which marks the beginning of a year-long sabbatical to focus on her practice.
Melanie's work is rooted in photography, exploring her relationship to grief and longing in relation to childlessness. Her photos pay attention to, and are in response to, slight changes of light, movement and the interaction of humans with the landscape.
We look forward to welcoming Melanie here next year and we are grateful to Creative Kernow for making this residency possible.
Image: Melanie Stidolph. 'Endless Reproduction', 2023
Early Career Performing Artist Residency 2025
Call for Applications
We are very pleased to announce a new fully funded residency for a UK-based early career artist working in performance.
This two-week residency is designed to support the development of new work, research, and experimentation. Eligible performance-based artforms include music, dance, opera, theatre, musical theatre, puppetry, and performance art.
This residency is scheduled to take place from Monday 10 March – Sunday 23 March 2025. The artist will receive a fee, a travel allowance, and two mentorship sessions with an established artist working in performance. The mentor will be selected in collaboration with Cove Park.
More information about the residency and details of how to apply are available here. The deadline for applications is Friday 17 January 2025.
This residency is generously supported by The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust.
Image: Neel Chaudhuri, Musical Theatre Writing Residency 2024.
Bridge Awards Residencies 2025
Call for Applications
The call for applications for the third year of The Bridge Awards Residencies is live!
In collaboration with The Bridge Awards, Cove Park is pleased to offer a further four fully funded residencies in 2025 for artists based in Scotland whose careers have been impacted by a breast cancer diagnosis and who have undergone successful treatment and are up to five years in remission.
The four Bridge Awards Residencies will run in parallel for ten days from Monday 19 May - Thursday 29 May. They are open to people based in Scotland, at any stage of their creative career, and working in any art form or creative discipline. The aim is to provide the artist, writer, creative practitioner, or researcher with time and space to reconnect with their practice, and to do this within the peaceful, supportive, and inspiring context of Cove Park and its national and international residency programme.
Further information on this programme and details of how to apply is available here. Applications should be submitted by Friday 28 February 2025.
We are very grateful to The Bridge Awards and to Maggie's for their ongoing support and help with this series of residencies.
Image: The Bridge at Cove Park (photography, Ruth Clark).
Creative Producers Residency
Announced
We are delighted to announce the producers taking part in the Creative Producers Residency next month.
From Business of Broadway, we will welcome Tony Award-winning producer and founder of P3 Productions Sammy Lopez, Tony Award-winning producer, talent manager and educator Erica Rotstein, Tony nominated producer and general manager Heather Shields, and Tony Award-winning producer and educator Rachel Sussman.
They will be joined by producer at ArtHouse Jersey Robyn Cabaret, Oliver nominated producer and founder of JFR Productions Jasmyn Fisher-Ryner, independent producer and strategic producer of In Good Company Rafia Hussain, independent producer and project producer at Marlborough Productions Nassy Konan, Executive Producer at Scissor Kick Nicola Lawton, senior programmer at Capital Theatres Munya Redman-Bayasi, Dublin-based Irish-American producer Cally Shine, and London-based Australian producer Maryann Wright.
The Independent Producer Bursary for a Scotland-based producer has been awarded to Kate Taylor.
Images: above; Rafia Hussain (photography, David Barden), below; Sammy Lopez (photography, Amanda Crommett)
Commercial Theatre Producing Seminar
On Tuesday 14 January 2025, Business of Broadway will lead a full-day Commercial Theatre Producing Seminar, open to theatre producers and practitioners based in the UK and Ireland.
This professional development opportunity is intended for early and mid-career theatre producers who are seeking to learn more about commercial theatre producing in New York City and beyond.
Others who work in theatre industry roles – including but not limited to general management, company management, marketing, development, or in creative roles such as direction and design – are also welcome to enrol in this open seminar.
For more information and to register, please visit our Ticket Tailor page.
Image: The launch of the Scotland/Japan residency exchange programme at Cove Park, October 2018 (photography, Alan Dimmick).
News from NAARCA
The seventh and final NAARCA Writing Commissions has been awarded to Greenlandic writer and poet Pivinnguaq Mørch. Written in Kalaallisut, the Inuit language and dialect spoken in Greenland, Mørch's commissioned texts include two poems: Aningaap pissaanera (Power of Aningaaq – Man of the Moon*) and Pinngortitap pissaaner (Power of the Nature).
This work completes NAARCA's commissioning programme which also includes new writing by Swedish art historian Anna-Maria Hällgren, Palestinian-Icelandic writer, poet, translator and journalist Mazen Maarouf, Norwegian author Zeshan Shakar, Danish-Columbian writer Emmy Laura Pérez Fjallandff, Gaelic writer Mairi Macleod, and Sámi poet Hanna Guttorm. All texts, including translations into English, are available to read on NAARCA's website.
The Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA) brings together Cove Park (Scotland) and Saari Residence (Finland), Artica Svalbard (Norway), Art Hub Copenhagen (Denmark), Baltic Art Center (Sweden), Narsaq International Research Station (Greenland),
and Skaftfell Art Center (Iceland) to collaborate on research, institutional change and public education around climate action.
Stay tuned for an announcement about the future of NAARCA in January.
Image: Courtesy of Pivinnguaq Mørch.
Subsidised Winter Residencies 2025
Call for Applications
We are pleased to announce details of our popular annual programme of Subsidised Winter Residencies for 2025.
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 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: Cove Park in the winter (photography, Alex Marrs).
Space Hire 2025
Space Hire was launched in 2023 to welcome other arts organisations, companies, and community groups to Cove Park for meetings and away days. In the programme's first year we were pleased to host The Common Guild, Comhairle nan Leabhraichean / The Gaelic Books Council, Glasgow International, 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. Please submit an enquiry form or contact Nicola Jamieson directly for more information and to discuss your specific requirements.
Rhubaba's POC Emerging Writers Group had a brilliant visit to Cove Park. We're thankful for the hospitality of the team in welcoming us into their unique creative space. The group enjoyed walking the grounds and exploring Cove Park... having space to breathe and explore as artists is invaluable to connection.
Rhubaba Committee, September 2024
Image: The Jacobs Building, Cove Park (photography, Alan Dimmick).
