October 2022
Cove Park's current programme includes national and international residencies, new partnerships, residency exchanges and events, taking place at a particularly beautiful time of the year here in Argyll.
The cultural, environmental, and political significance of food is central to the work of three of our current residents: Mathilde N'Doye (Youth Arts Bursary Residency), Una Hallgrímsdóttir (Food Ecologies Residency), and Suzanne Bernhardt (Food Lab Residency). Scroll down for more information on our new partnership with the Jan van Eyck Academie's Food Lab and CCA Glasgow.
October also sees new funded residencies for designer maker Soizig Carey, visual artist Jennie Temple, plus the welcome return through our Associates programme of artist and researcher Heiba Lamara. Associate and writer Nicola White is currently taking part in a residency at Varuna - The National Writers' House, Australia, as part of our ongoing exchange programme supported by The Bridge Awards.
Cove Park's independently funded programme welcomes researcher Adrian Bach, visual poet Haneem Christian, interdisciplinary artist and curator Naeem Davis, artist and arts organiser Elizabeth Ann Day, curator and critic Florah Fettah, and visual artist Jamie Johnson.
We were also pleased to welcome Diljeet Bhachu and Hardeep Singh Deerhe of the Scottish-Asian Creative Artists' Network. This residency supports a period of research for work commissioned by Glasgow Life.
If you are interested in a residency during the autumn and winter this year, or through our Subsidised Winter Residencies programme in January, February, and March 2023, please contact Nicola Jamieson directly.
Finally, we are excited to be accepted as a member of Film Hub Scotland and to be part of a growing network committed to the support of professional development and exhibition opportunities for filmmakers in Scotland.
Read on for news of this year's Cryptic Residencies, forthcoming screenings and events, the announcement of the second year of our Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures programme, and Cove Park's next Saturday Studio workshop on Saturday 5 November.
Images: Cove Park, October 2021 (photography by Alan Dimmick); below, landscape at Varuna, the National Writers' House, Australia (photography, Nicola White).
A New Partnership:
Cove Park, CCA Glasgow, & Food Lab
We are pleased to announce a new partnership between Cove Park, CCA Glasgow, and Food Lab of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. The first project taking place in Scotland through this partnership is a residency in October at Cove Park and CCA Glasgow for the Amsterdam-based artist Suzanne Bernhardt.
Established in 2018, Food Lab was created to offer a multidisciplinary platform to chefs and artists with an interest in food. It is also the home of the annual Food Art Film Festival, developed in collaboration with the Academie's Nature Research department. We look forward to working with all involved over the coming year. More information is available here
Image: Courtesy of Suzanne Bernhardt.
Cryptic Residencies 2022
We welcome Cryptic back to Cove Park this month, building upon our longstanding partnership with this award-winning Glasgow-based producing arts house.
Cryptic has curated this annual artist residency programme at Cove Park since 2012, focusing upon music, sound and multi-media, with over 70 artists benefitting to date. The residencies provide professional development time and support for musicians and digital artists to focus exclusively upon their own practice, whilst engaging with other artists and benefiting from peer-to-peer learning.
The artists this year are: Samm Anga (UK), Lucy Duncombe (UK), Ghada Eissa (EGY), Lene de Montaigu (UK), Nik Rawlings (UK), Becky Šik (UK), Alex Smoke (UK) and Feronia Wennborg (SE). Read more on this programme and the artists here.
Image: Courtesy of Becky Šik.
Encounters with Climate:
Argyll Beacon on Screen & Air Quotes Premiere
Join us at CCA Glasgow on Tuesday 1 November 2022, from 6:30pm – 8:00pm, for this special event. Encounters with Climate presents new films and exploratory work developed this year at Cove Park and throughout the UK which document intergenerational learning and decision-making in relation to climate management.
'Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations' by Alison Scott and Rachel McBrinn is a short film commissioned by the Argyll Beacon: a partnership between Argyll & the Isles Coast & Countryside Trust and Cove Park. Filmed across Argyll, the film takes us from the experimental mono-cultural forestry of Kilmun Arboretum, to sites of Atlantic Rainforest at Cormonachan Community Woodland, Taynish National Nature Reserve, Barnluasgan, and recent planting of native tree species at Cove Park.
'Rainforest Days' was part of the Argyll Beacon's Artists in Schools programme led by artist Juliana Capes. The event will include a suite of three short responses to Scotland’s rainforest, made entirely from footage and descriptive audio taken by pupils of Hermitage Academy, Helensburgh, and Lochgilphead High School.
In addition, the event features the Scottish premiere of 'Air Quotes'. Shot in the style of a TV show, this work by Louis Brown (East London Cable), cuts between a group of inner-city London teens who are regularly exposed to toxic levels of air pollution, and young people involved in a school Eco Committee in Cove Park's local secondary school, Hermitage Academy, to explore climate justice and the uneven impacts of policies intended to achieve net-zero. The youth collaborators hold round-table discussions, interview activists, and use a portable camera kit to interview adults in their lives. Read more on 'Air Quotes' here.
Join us for a Citizen's Panel event at CCA Glasgow before the screenings, and share your views on new net-zero climate policies with researchers.
Free tickets for this event are available via CCA Glasgow's website.
Image: Stills from 'Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations' and 'Air Quotes' (courtesy of the artists).
SpringBoard:
Local Assemblies for Creative Climate Action
Creative Carbon Scotland are working with Cove Park and other organisations across Scotland to launch a series of Local Assemblies for Creative Climate Action. SpringBoard brings together individual artists and cultural organisations with people working on climate change to form powerful local networks for climate action.
Taking place at Cove Park on Monday 7 November, from 1.30pm to 5pm, this free event is open to individuals and those working in collaboration with, or as part of, cultural organisations, community groups, and venues across our region. Sessions will be led by Creative Carbon Scotland.
To find our more and book your free place, please visit Cove Park's Eventbrite page or contact Nicola Jamieson (Programme & Development Coordinator).
Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures 2023
We are excited to announce that the call for applications from recent graduates of Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of the Fine Arts to the Ecologies in the Making programme is live! This four month residency is offered between Cove Park and Scottish Sculpture Workshop and is part of the Academy's Incubators in Fine Arts project, supported by Saastamoinen Foundation. More information is available here.
Following the success of the 2022 residency awarded to Iisa Lepistö, we look forward to welcoming a second graduate to Scotland in March next year.
Image: Iisa Lepistö at Cove Park, September 2022 (photography, Alan Dimmick).
Saturday Studios & Artists in Schools
Heiba Lamara & Hannah Ayre
Our next Saturday Studios workshops take place on 5 November and will be led by the London-based artist Heiba Lamara.
Join Heiba in exploring the history of DIY publishing through zines and learn how to make your own. Using everyday stationary, the workshop will show how to collage, assemble, duplicate and distribute your own DIY publications. To read more and book your free place on either the morning or afternoon workshops, please visit Cove Park's Eventbrite page.
Heiba will be developing this workshop during a two week residency. She will be joined on site by former resident Hannah Ayre, here through Cove Park's Artists in Schools programme, and working with pupils of the John Logie Baird Primary School in Helensburgh.
We are grateful to the Hugh Fraser Foundation for supporting our growing Associates and Engagement programme in 2022.
Image: Heiba Lamara, Cove Park, 2018 (photography, Alan Dimmick)
