A unique residency in rural Scotland for national
and international artists, creative practitioners,
researchers, and our local community.
A unique residency in rural Scotland for national
and international artists, creative practitioners,
researchers, and our local community.
Annual Awarded Residencies
A snapshot of this season’s residencies. Visit the Residencies page for information on our Awarded and Open programmes and how to take part.
Michael Pedersen: is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author, the Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University, and Edinburgh’s Makar (Poet Laureate). His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 – it was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction at Scotland’s National Book Awards. The Cat Prince […]
Titana Muthui is an actor and writer who writes with urgency, clarity, and conviction. A Black woman and recovering alcoholic, she creates work that is inseparable from her lived experience. Storytelling has always been her way of surviving the world, but sobriety sharpened her understanding of just how much representation matters—not only for visibility, but […]
Sin Park is a painter, researcher, and academic based in Glasgow. Her practice explores the shifting space between abstraction and representation, where memory, gesture, and landscape intertwine. Through intuitive mark-making, erasure, and repetition, she builds layered visual languages that reflect on identity, cultural context, fragmentation, transformation, and the fluid nature of belonging. Her work often […]
Dr Elaine Webster is Programme Leader for the PgCert/PgDip/LLM in Human Rights Law and Senior Academic Mentor for the Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training in Human Rights-based Decision Making. Her research focuses on European and international human rights law, particularly how judicial and non-judicial actors interpret rights at various levels, including locally. She previously served […]
Anne Hardy’s practice in sculpture and immersive installation re-imagines overlooked terrains, objects, histories and materials as holders of transformative potential. Considering how our bodies encounter spaces, hierarchies, freedoms, and uncertainty in relation to emotions, fragility and resilience, her work is informed by ideas of energetic presence, deep time, future archaeology, climate, and our status as […]
Based on a 50-acre site overlooking Loch Long on Scotland’s west coast, Cove Park is embedded in its rural and coastal location. Visit the About page for more on the site, our local community, and our commitment to the conservation of Argyll & Bute's rich natural heritage.
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Matthew Arthur Williams was awarded a 6-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually […]
Collaboration is central to the work Emmie McLuskey produces, starting with a shared question or observation that she explores more deeply through practice, previously this has taken the form of publications, events, objects, conversations and exhibitions. Recent work has centred around interactions in and between bodies, considering the systems that control and record them. McLuskey […]
Nilam Sari is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Their research and art practice focus on grief and technology–specifically the way we grieve through technology, as well as the way we grieve the technology itself. By using woodworking and electronic arts as their primary mediums, they explore these topics by creating work ranging from […]
Uma Nada-Rajah is a playwright and nurse based in Kilbarchan, Scotland. She was a member of the Young Writers’ Program at the Traverse Theatre and a recipient of a New Playwrights’ Award from Playwrights’ Studio Scotland. Uma was one the BBC’s Scottish Voices 2020, and was also recently the Starter Female Political Comedy Writer-in-Residence at […]