September 2022
As the autumn begins Cove Park's residencies, special projects, and events continue and we are pleased this month to announce some exciting news about our forthcoming programme.
September sees residencies for artistic and curatorial collaboration Languid Hands (Imani Mason Jordan and Rabz Lansiquot), and writer for stage, screen and VR Amanda Verlaque. They are joined by visual artist Edward Gwyn Jones and writer Kirsty Logan, former residents taking part in new residencies made possible through Cove Park's growing Associates Programme.
The Finnish artist Iisa Lepistö continues here 8-week 'Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures' residency, devised in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts Uniarts Helsinki and supported by the Saastamoinen Foundation. Iisa moves to Scottish Sculpture Workshop next month for the second part of this 16-week residency.
Our Youth Arts Bursary programme continues with residencies for designer and creative facilitator Mathilde N'Doye and visual artist Antony Lucchesi. Our partnership with Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh makes possible a residency for visual artist Sarah Rose.
Cove Park's Independently Funded programme hosts poet Thomas A. Clark, researcher Isabel Ferrari, visual artist James Gaywood with poet Eric Langley, writer and artist Georgia Holmer, and artist and educator Carlyn Wright-Eakes. If you would like to take part during November and December this year, please contact Nicola Jamieson directly for available dates and further information. Scroll down for news of our popular annual programme of Subsidised Winter Residencies, taking place in January, February, and March 2023.
We can confirm our next Open Call for Applications for funded residencies in 2023/2024 will go live on 28 October. Application Guidelines will be available from this date and the deadline for submissions will be 5 December 2022. Please read on for further programme announcements, including news of September's Saturday Studio and the launch of the Making Tracks residency and tour.
Images: Above, Cove Park's Cubes, September 2022 (photography by Alan Dimmick).
Subsidised Winter Residencies 2023
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.
Our popular annual programme of Subsidised Winter Residencies will take place during January, February, and March 2023. 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 16 September 2022 until 6 March 2023, in the hope that those interested will have the time required to request funding from their own organisations or external funding agencies. Further information is available here.
Image: The Jacobs Building (photography, Alan Dimmick).
Making Tracks 2022
We are pleased to welcome Making Tracks back to Cove Park this month for its 2022 residency and the first stop on its UK tour. Based around the twin themes of musical traditions and the natural world, the residency brings together eight exceptional musicians to showcase diverse music and initiate new collaborations during a two-week residency and a two-week tour.
The Making Tracks Fellows this year are: Shahab Azinmehr (Iran/Belgium), Anna Ekborg (Sweden), Ranjana Ghatak (UK), Lucie Hendry (UK/Denmark), Iona Lane (UK) Malin Lewis (UK), Cherif Soumano (Mali/France), and Alaa Zouiten (Morocco/Germany).
The UK tour will launch with a performance at Cove Park from 6pm on Friday 30 September 2022, before continuing to venues in York, Manchester, Sheffield, Matlock Bath, Nottingham, Oxford, Bristol, Norwich, and London. Further information and tickets are available here.
Image: Above, Making Tracks 2022 Fellow, Cherif Soumano; below, Making Tracks trailer, 2021.
Magnetic Residency Announced
Cove Park is delighted to be the Scottish residency taking part in Magnetic, a new Franco-UK network bringing together four organisations from France and four from the UK to create a programme of funded residencies for visual artists based in both countries.
We are pleased to announce that David Douard has been awarded the 8-week Cove Park Magnetic residency. Based in Paris, David graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2011. Since then his work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions across France and internationally. This residency is David's first opportunity to work in Scotland and we look forward to welcoming him here in October.
Magnetic is led by Fluxus Art Projects, a not-for-profit organisation created in 2010 by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, to support contemporary art on both sides of the Channel.
Image: David Douard, 'Melody', 2022, Light box: screen-printed plexiglass, metal, LED, wood, plaster, chains, aluminium, paper, magnets. (photography, Filipe Barga, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris).
New Associates Residencies Awarded
In just one year Cove Park's Associates Programme has developed significantly, creating several new residencies and projects for our former residents. We are delighted to announce the recipients of three new residencies taking place this autumn:
Hannah Ayre - Artists in Schools Residency
Heiba Lamara - Early Career Residency
Michael Stumpf - Visual Arts Residency
Hannah will work with Cove Park on workshops for children attending the Nurture Group within John Logie Baird Primary School, Helensburgh. Heiba will work with Cove Park's Curator of Engagement, Emma Henderson, on a new project for our monthly Saturday Studios programme. These residencies and workshops are made possible with support from the Hugh Fraser Foundation.
Michael's two-week residency is one of two for visual artists aged 50+ and based in Scotland, made possible with funding from the Turtleton Charitable Trust. The recipient of the second Visual Arts residency will be announced in our October Newsletter.
Image: Above, Michael Stumpf, 'We are more dimensional' (installation view, Viborg Kunsthal, presented by The Common Guild as part of Aarhus City of Culture, 2017 (photography, Kurt Nielse); below, Heiba Lamara, Cove Park, 2019 (photography, Alan Dimmick).
Translation Residency Announced
We are delighted to announce the recipient of the Cove Park/Lolli Editions Translation Residency is Martin Aitken.
Working mainly from Danish, and increasingly from Norwegian, Martin has translated works by leading contemporary writers such as Karl Ove Knausgaard, Olga Ravn, Peter Høeg, Kim Leine, and Hanne Ørstavik. His work has been shortlisted for major literary prizes, including the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award, a 2018 US National Book Award, and the 2021 International Booker Prize. He received the PEN America Translation Prize in 2019. Read more about Martin's work and Cove Park's Translation Programme here.
This residency is offered through a new partnership with Lolli Editions - an independent publisher based at Somerset House in London - and is part of Cove Park's European Residency Programme, supported by British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland.
We would like to thank translator and former resident Polly Barton and writer, translator, and Cove Park Advisor Vincenzo Latronico for their help with this programme.
Saturday Studios: Making Tracks
Our next Saturday Studios workshop focuses upon music making and will take place on Saturday 24 September as part of the Making Tracks programme.
Led by musician and Making Tracks Director Merlyn Driver, with musicians taking part in the Making Track's residency, the workshops run from 2.30pm and will be suitable for families with children of all ages - everyone is welcome. Read more and reserve your free place via our Eventbrite page.
Image: Making Tracks Workshop, Cove Park, October 2021 (photography, Emma Henderson).
