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.
Debjani Banerjee is an Edinburgh-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans performance, dance, sculpture, textiles, film, and collaborative making. Drawing from her British Bengali heritage, Banerjee explores themes of cultural dissonance, identity, and belonging through a post-colonial lens. Her work reconsiders the complexities of living within and between cultures, interweaving personal narratives with broader questions of […]
Yasmine Rifaii is an artist (b. 1995) from El Mina, Lebanon. Her practice traverses curatorial, editorial, architectural, and visual art disciplines. She is the Creative Director of Haven for Artists, a Beirut-based cultural feminist organization dedicated to knowledge production through exhibitions, publications, and a growing international artist network. Yasmine is also the co-founder of Al […]
Karon Sabrina Corrales is a cultural producer and independent curator based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. In 2016, she co-founded LL Proyectos with artist and curator Leonardo Gonzalez, an independent contemporary art initiative dedicated to fostering critical dialogue and artistic experimentation in Tegucigalpa. She is currently a fellow of the Cultural & Artistic Responses to the Environmental […]
Faraj Suleiman is a Palestinian composer and pianist based in Paris. His music is strongly influenced by Arabic/Eastern melodies and rhythms. He often incorporates those scales and modalities in his compositions. In addition to being inspired by his Arabic culture, he is also influenced by Jazz traditions. As an Arab musician/pianist trained in classical music, […]
Claire Wilson is a crime writer from central Scotland. Her debut novel, Five by Five, won the inaugural Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writer Prize and was released in August 2024. The novel has since been shortlisted for the Specsavers CrimeFest debut, the Capital Crime Fingerprint Award and the Bloody Scotland debut prize. Five by Five […]
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.
Cove Park’s 2012/2013 Henry Moore Fellowship was organised in partnership with CCA Glasgow and Chisenhale Gallery, London. The Fellowship will enable Berlin-based visual artist Mariana Castillo Deball to develop new work, co-commissioned by CCA, Cove Park and Chisenhale, for two connected solo exhibitions in both venues in 2013.
Gaïa (she/they) is a jazz and rnb singer based in Glasgow. Their practice revolves around several collaborative projects within the Neo-jazz scene in Glasgow ranging from rnb to spiritual jazz projects. Their practice has evolved over the past year – now working amongst different scenes and working collaboratively with different musicians, poets, and more.
Hope Strickland is a researcher and artist filmmaker from Manchester, UK, with current interests in postcolonial ecologies, queer, diasporic assemblages and the bonds between resource extraction and racial violence. Recent work has explored black metamorphosis alongside taxonomies of imperial control; working across 16mm, digital and archival formats to question and disrupt the distances between myth, […]
Nick Makoha is the founder of The Obsidian Foundation. In 2017, Nick’s debut collection, Kingdom of Gravity, was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and was one of the Guardian’s best books of the year. Nick is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and the Complete Works alumnus. He won the 2015 Brunel International African […]