November 2024
Cove Park's Awarded Residencies – providing fully-funded, longer-term residencies for local, national, and international artists – continue throughout the autumn and winter months. We are delighted that the Marseille-based artist Violaine Barrois is here for eight weeks as part of Magnetic Residencies and the third year of this Franco-UK exchange programme.
We are also very pleased to welcome artist Jo Tomlinson for the first Sculpture House Residency, to host writer Callum McSorley for the second Loch Long Crime Writing Residency, and Tamsin MacArthur for the first Smith Residency.
Cove Park's Associates Early Career Residency was awarded to former resident, artist and researcher Emily Beaney. Emily joins us this month for a two-week residency which concludes with the Saturday Studio Workshop 'Cameraless Filmmaking'. This residency is made possible with ongoing support from The Hugh Fraser Foundation and details of the workshop for children and young people can be found below.
We were thrilled to welcome the Czech-Republic based company Live Performance Bazaar back to Cove Park for a third year through our Open Residencies for groups, companies, and organisations. This project – the We, the Landscape Residency – involved five artists from the Czech Republic and Uruguay.
Our Open Residencies for individuals and two-person collaborations this month include writer Liam Bell, co-founders of Mycelium Thinking Rema Grace & Dave Crossley, artist Alison Grant, writer and actor Lesley Hart, writer Katie Hodgetts, novelist and games writer Stark Holborn, artist and curator Sekai Machache, writer and filmmaker Emily Munro, social designer and researcher Eva Oosterlaken, playwright, author, and lecturer in creative writing Peggy Riley, writer Laima Vincé Sruoginis, and visual artist and creative technologist duo Yambe Tam & Albert Barbu.
Team News
We are very pleased to announce that Kerrie MacQueen, Cove Park's Finance & Operations Manager, has been invited to sit on Scottish Government's Culture Fairwork Taskforce subgroup. This invitation comes following Kerrie's participation in HR for Creatives, a support and development programme offered by Scotland's Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) with support from Creative Scotland.
Read on for programme announcements including the Creative Producers Residency and the Commercial Theatre Producing Seminar, the announcement of The Shore Photography Residency, some wonderful news about a major award from The National Lottery Community Fund, and an update on the American Friends of Cove Park.
Image: The view of Taransay and Oak Pods from the balcony of Arran, Bute, and Cumbrae Cubes.
Creative Producers Residency
13-19 January 2025
Cove Park and Business of Broadway, in association with Capital Theatres, have announced a new residency for creative theatre producers. Taking place at Cove Park in January 2025, participants will benefit from an immersive and creative space to connect and develop their theatre producing practice with guidance and support from Business of Broadway.
This professional development opportunity is intended for early and mid-career theatre producers based in the UK and Ireland, and will include workshops and lectures on commercial theatre producing in New York City and beyond. Sessions will include topics such as: producing on Broadway 101, fundraising and pitching in the United States, financial models (budgets, recoupment schedules, royalty pools, etc.), U.S. unions & guilds, production and investment contracts, marketing, and more.
Developed from the 2024 Musical Theatre Writing Residency, this project reflects our aims to address gaps in the sector and provide more unique professional development opportunities for creative practitioners. More information is available here.
Applications to take part in this residency will be accepted until Monday 2 December 2024. A sliding scale pricing structure is in place to help support access based on whether the applicant is applying as an independent producer or as a representative of a theatre company or cultural institution.
One fully funded bursary will be awarded to an independent or freelance creative producer based in Scotland. This bursary includes a placement in the residency programme, financial support of £550, and £75 travel allowance. Additionally, the recipient will benefit from a one-to-one mentorship meeting with a member of the Business of Broadway team.
Please read the Creative Producers Residency Guidelines for details of how to apply.
Image: Festival Theatre, Edinburgh (courtesy of Capital Theatres).
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).
The Shore Photography Residency
Demelza Kingston
The Shore Photography Residency is a new opportunity made possible with generous support from one of Cove Park's Argyll Patrons. We are delighted to announce the first recipient of this residency is Demelza Kingston.
Demelza is a Glasgow-based artist working in photography and moving image with processes that span the analogue, digital and cameraless. Her work considers how humans of the ancient past, the present and the future are dis/connected with the more-than-human. Informed by research, from archive to fieldwork, her work can be seen as a kind of speculative
archaeology. Much of Demelza's work relates to land and the plant life within- their lore, their commodification and control- and she sees the allotment she tends, where herbs for use in photographic developers grow, as part of her studio.
Demelza was awarded the Alice Duncan Prize and commended in The Glasgow School of Art Prize for Sustainability for her degree show work, a selection of which was also exhibited in Futureproof 2024, at Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow. Other recent group exhibitions include Leeway, New Glasgow Society (2024), Art Making for Earthly Survival, Reid Gallery, Glasgow (2022) and Art of The Possible, Glasgow Art Club (2021). Her commissioned work has included a photographic project for The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in collaboration with Comann Eachdraidh Lios Mor (Lismore Historical Society).
If you are interested in supporting Cove Park through our growing Patrons Programme, click here.
Image: Demelza Kingston, Harvest, HD video still (2023).
The National Lottery Community Award:
Project Studio – Youth Voice
We are delighted to announce that Cove Park has received an award from The National Lottery Community Fund for the continuation and development of Project Studio in 2025 and 2026.
Project Studio is a unique Cove Park programme for teenagers in the catchment area of Hermitage Academy, Helensburgh. It provides free, after-school group activity connected to a range of issues and themes, introducing the participants to new ideas and ways of working together.
Details of our current Project Studio programme - Art & Activism - is available here. More information on the new programme for 2025 and 2026 will be announced in the new year.
We are grateful to The National Lottery for enabling this vital and exciting programme to continue.
Image: Project Studio Participant, October 2024 (photography, Alex Marrs).
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).
American Friends of Cove Park:
New Partner Announced
Cove Park's American Friends was launched in 2022. It provides a tax-effective means through which US-based friends can support our work and offer new residencies to artists, groups, and organisations from America.
We are delighted to confirm that we are now working with the US-based organisation Producer Hub to support this growing aspect of Cove Park's individual giving programme. We are delighted to have this partnership in place and look forward to working with the organisation on the development of American Friends.
Cove Park has hosted numerous American artists over the years, including visual artists Tyler Coburn, Matt Keegan, and Paul P, and ceramicist Natalie Weinberger, in addition to those artists taking part in the 2024 Musical Theatre Writing Residency, Nikki Lynette and Lili-Anne Brown.
If you would like to join American Friends, and ensure our support of artists based in the US can continue, please follow the link to the American Friends Givebutter page, or contact Alex Marrs directly.
Image: US-based artist and former resident Tyler Coburn, Cove Park
Saturday Studio Workshop, 30 November 2024
Cameraless Filmmaking
This month's Saturday Studio Workshop encourages participants to become the director of their own film. Led by moving image artist and former resident Emily Beaney, the workshop will introduce cameraless filmmaking by using drawing techniques to create shapes and make patterns directly onto strips of film.
This workshop is free and open to children aged five and over. Please register via our Ticket Tailor page.
If you have questions about workshop accessibility, please contact Emma Henderson (Curator of Engagement).
This Workshop and the Associates Early Career Residency – awarded to Emily Beaney – are supported by The Hugh Fraser Foundation.
Image: Saturday Studio materials (photography, Emma Henderson).
Space Hire 2024
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, Scottish Opera, and the University of Glasgow (Contemporary Art & Curation).
In 2024 we will continue to offer beautiful spaces 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).
