September & October 2024
The first months of the autumn season coincide with the launch of Cove Park's new website and logotype, and we are delighted to share this now with all of our friends, partners, and supporters. Scroll down to read more about the website and its new features.
The redesigned website will continue to feature all of our current residencies, which in September and October include the eight national and international musicians taking part in the third Cove Park edition of Making Tracks, and a new one-week residency for Body Remedy.
Cove Park's Awarded Residencies continue with Saturn Akin, here for the Emerging Visual Artist Residency, and Brooke Robinson, taking part in the Cove Park/Varuna The National Writers' House of Australia Residency Exchange programme. We are also pleased to welcome visual artist Jo Tomlinson, recipient of the first Sculpture House Residency, made possible through a new partnership with Sculpture House Collective.
Talbot Rice Residents continues in October with visual artist Thulani Rachia and, through our long-established partnership with Playwrights' Studio Scotland, we welcome actor, writer, and director Lana Pheutan. The Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities Residency brings doctoral researcher Matthew Floyd.
Cove Park's Creative Residencies for Carers, for unpaid carers based in Scotland, also continues this month with singer, producer, songwriter, and sound artist Fiona Soe Paing.
This season's Open Residencies involves artists from Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Kenya, the Netherlands, across the UK and the US. Open Residencies for individuals include visual artist and bookbinder Amy Borezo, moving image and sound artist Aideen Doran, writer and Cove Park Associate Julie Kennedy, visual artist Bonnie Ogilvie, and writer and Cove Park Associate Sumayya Usmani.
In partnership with Luminate and Scottish Refugee Council, we are also pleased to welcome back to Cove Park artists Paria Goodarzi, Haleh Jamali, and Oleksandra Novatska, here for micro-residencies as part of the 2024 Landscapes & Horizons programme.
Finally, we were delighted to welcome for the first time Strathclyde University's Art & Humanity for Human Rights & Socio-Ecological Justice research group, with Professor Katie Boyle, Milica Prokic, Marly Muudeni Samuel, Dr. Elaine Webster, and Lysa Wini.
Read on for programme announcements including the Smith Residency, Associates Residencies, our current Autumn Micro-Residencies, Space Hire at Cove Park, and news of our forthcoming Saturday Studio and Project Studio programmes for young people and teenagers.
Image: View of Loch Long from Cove Park (photography, Alan Dimmick)
Cove Park Launches New Website
Cove Park's new website and logotype launches this month. Designed by the graphic designer and former Cove Park resident Maeve Redmond with Lizzie Malcolm, from the graphic and interaction design studio Rectangle, the website offers more information on every aspect of our programme and organisation, and shares for the first time our archive in development of residencies from 2000, plus a range of online resources. It also features a wealth of images of Cove Park's 50-acre site, the surrounding landscape, studios, and facilities.
In addition, the website features new pages on our programme of workshops, events, and collaborative projects, including NAARCA: the Nordic Alliance of Artists' Residencies in Climate Action, and the Argyll Beacon. It includes a new accessibility menu, and it's also much easier to find out about forthcoming events and to reserve your place, and we look forward to welcoming more visitors to Cove Park in the coming months.
We are very grateful to Maeve, Lizzie, and to our colleague Alex Marrs for all their work, and to Trustees Lauren Dyer Amazeen (Chair), Eric Latzky and Heather Parry for their support with this project.
Image: The Jacobs Building at Cove Park (photography, Alan Dimmick).
The Smith Residency
The Smith Residency is a new residency for a UK-based visual artist and recent graduate of either The Glasgow School of Art, Goldsmiths University of London, or University of the Arts London.
We are delighted to announce the recipient of this residency is the Glasgow-based artist Tamsin MacArthur.
Tamsin is a multi-media artist and graduate of Sculpture & Environmental Art at The Glasgow School of Art. Her work explores dialogues between belief and the ‘actual’, and action and reaction, frequently working in response to spiritual and mythological ideas within the framework of an increasingly nihilistic western modernity.
We would like to thank Rae-Yen Song (artist and former Cove Park resident), Professor Rebecca Fortum (Associate Dean of Research at Central St Martins), and Sarah McCrory (Director Goldsmiths CCA) for their support with the application shortlisting and appointment process. We are also grateful to the Smith family for making this residency possible.
Image: Tamsin MacArthur, documentation from GSA Degree Show, 2024.
Associates Artist in Schools 2024
We are delighted to announce that this year's Associates Artist in Schools residency has been awarded to the Glasgow-based artist and former Cove Park resident Katie Schwab.
Katie works with textiles and installation to explore personal, social, and material histories of craft, design, and education. Her research focuses on twentieth century domestic interiors, civic architecture, and play environments. Embedded in the communities and contexts in which she works, Katie's long-term projects incorporate collaborative workshops, archival research and craft-based learning. Katie has facilitated projects with school groups, teachers, early years, families, and young people at institutions including Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Serpentine Galleries, and Camden Art Centre. She is currently working on a project with Oban High School and National Galleries Scotland.
This residency is linked to the creation and delivery of two half-day or one full day workshop for pupils at John Logie Baird Primary School (Nurture Unit), Helensburgh, with support from Emma Henderson, Cove Park’s Curator of Engagement.
Cove Park's Associates programme is a membership programme for former residents, offering events, residencies, and other opportunities.
We are grateful to the Hugh Fraser Foundation for their support.
Image: Katie Schwab, Knots, Family Day, BALTIC, Gateshead, 2018 (photo: Colin Davison).
Associates Early Career Residency 2024
Our second forthcoming Associates Residency is the Associates Early Career Residency and we are pleased to confirm this year's recipient is artist and researcher Emily Beaney.
Emily works with moving image. Her practice-based research seeks to communicate through the filmic body experiences of embodied difference and collective care. Centring upon narratives that may be difficult to articulate, the unseen/unheard, she utilises experimental and collaborative approaches to filmmaking to work with family, communities, artists, researchers, and academics.
The outcomes of these collaborations have been screened and exhibited in creative and community contexts across the UK and internationally with organisations including the Southbank Centre, Alchemy Film and Arts, British Council, and Creative Scotland. She has developed projects in partnership with Wellcome Collection and Glasgow Women’s Library, and was awarded the Guthrie Award for outstanding work by the Royal Scottish Academy.
This fully funded residency includes the development of a new creative workshop for young people and their families as part of our Saturday Studios programme.
We are grateful to the Hugh Fraser Foundation for their support.
Image: Emily Beaney, film still, Breaking the Fall.
Autumn Micro Residencies 2024
Building upon the success of our Spring and Summer Micro Residencies, we are pleased to offer short three-night residencies in October and November 2024. This is an ideal opportunity to meet an upcoming deadline or focus upon new projects and research. Members of Cove Park's Associates programme will continue to benefit from a subsidised rate for Micro Residencies.
For more information and to book your residency, please submit an enquiry form.
Image: Cove Park in the autumn (photography, Alan Dimmick).
Saturday Studio Workshop - 26 October 2024
Invasive Species
October's Saturday Studios workshop focuses upon one of Scotland's most challenging botanical invasive species: rhododendron ponticum. This plant threatens rainforests, ancient woodlands, and wild habitats by crowding out smaller plants and spreading a fungus-like pathogen.
Join Paul Cookson from Green Aspirations to learn more about rhododendron ponticum and other invasive plant species as he demonstrates how to chop and prepare rhododendron wood before heating it to create charcoal. Participants can then use the charcoal for drawing, or turn it into ink and paint.
The day will be split into two sessions:
- From 10am - 12pm: making charcoal.
- From 1pm-3pm: charcoal drawings. Participants may also turn the charcoal into inks and paints. This will be an experimental session to discover the potential of homemade charcoal.
This workshop is free and open to children aged eight and over. Children between eight and ten years of age should be accompanied by an adult. Feel free to bring a packed lunch and book to take part in both sessions. Register via our Ticket Tailor page.
If you have questions about workshop accessibility, please get in touch with Emma Henderson (Curator of Engagement).
Saturday Studios is supported by Argyll & Bute Council: Supporting Communities Fund.
Image: Saturday Studios at Cove Park (photography, Emma Henderson).
Project Studio: Art & Activism
22 October 2024
We are pleased to launch a new series of Project Studio sessions focussed upon Art & Activism. This new series will take place weekly for six weeks, beginning on Tuesday 22 October 2024, from 4-6 pm.
Led by former resident Heather Marshall, the sessions will include a wide range of activities responding to the interests and concerns of all involved and focussing upon issues impacting the lives of teenagers in our local area.
Project Studio is for teenagers aged 13-16 in the catchment area of Hermitage Academy. Launched in June 2023, it offers free creative activity including workshops, trips, and events centred around self-expression and creating community for teenagers interested in the arts, activism, environmentalism, and wellbeing.
Project Studio takes place at Park Pavilion, Hermitage Park, Helensburgh. Book your place here. For more information on this programme, please contact Emma Henderson.
Image: courtesy of Heather Marshall.
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).
