2005 Residency Programme

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The 2005 programme brings together leading national and international visual artists, curators, applied artists, poets, writers, choreographers, composers, musicians, film makers, stage designers and performers. The residency strands and participating artists are:

Visual Arts

Sara Barker 5 May – 3 June 2005

 Sara Barker was awarded a one-month residency to work on new projects, including the development of work for a forthcoming exhibition at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow. A graduate of Glasgow School of Art's painting department in 2003, Barker is also a writer, curator and Director of Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow.

www.marymarygallery.co.uk

Melanie Carvalho 6 June – 2 September 2005

Cove Park's annual three-month Visual Arts Residency, funded by the Scottish Arts Council, was awarded to Melanie Carvalho. Carvalho studied at Central St. Martin's and the Royal College of Art in London. Since then she has shown nationally and internationally, becoming known in Scotland through her participation in the acclaimed group shows Plunder (DCA, 2003) and Solar Lunar (doggerfisher, Edinburgh, 2004).

The artist employs collage, photography, drawing and painting to make work about landscape and its role in constructing identity, both personally and politically. Based at Cove Park from June this year, the artist will develop the on-going project Expedition. Since 2003, Carvalho has travelled throughout the west coast of Scotland to draw, paint, film and document the palms and sub-tropical flora that grow throughout this region: ‘immigrant species' that have been established in Scotland for over a century and benefit from the climate provided by the gulf stream. Recognising that the Scottish landscape is traditionally seen as a northern, wild landscape consisting of lochs, glens, heathers and thistles, Carvalho is interested in the ways in which the presence of the palms on the west coast refutes this perception and allows for an ‘otherness' within the idea of Scotland.

Laurence Figgis

Glasgow-based artist Laurence Figgis is producing a new body of work during a one-month residency. His work is informed by a critical exploration of narrative-based art, linking modernism, populism and feminism. This sometimes paradoxical thesis provides the critical space in which to invent and develop his own fictional narratives.

Since graduating in 2001, Figgis has shown widely throughout the UK and in Europe. The work produced at Cove Park will be shown in a solo exhibition at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, in September this year. In November 2005, Figgis will also present a solo exhibition at Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome. In addition to his work as a visual artist, he has written numerous texts on the work of artists such as Alex Pollard, Clare Stephenson and Cathy Wilkes. Residency organised in association with Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.

www.laurencefiggis.co.uk
www.transmissiongallery.org

Will Foster 15 August – 9 September 2005

Will Foster is one of four recent graduates to participate in Cove Park's Springboard Programme. Funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, this series enables artists at a key stage in their careers to develop their practice and to meet peers working in different disciplines. Based in Glasgow, Will's practice extends to the creation of alternative public territories in which art can function: this has involved the development of Cabin Exchange, an annual public art event in Glasgow and Edinburgh which employs freight containers as temporary autonomous spaces to be accommodated and transformed by local and international artists.

www.cabinexchange.com

Matts Leiderstam 18-22 July

Organised in association with Dundee Contemporary Arts, the Swedish artist Matts Leiderstam will be on residency at Cove Park immediately prior to the launch of his solo exhibition Grand Tour at DCA on 30 July 2005. Residency organised in association with DCA.

www.dca.org.uk

Kevin Pollock

Based in Glasgow, Kevin Pollock's work draws inspiration from a world of architectural and geological anomalies. His work focuses upon site-specific structures, produced with selected, found materials combined with industrial materials. During a one-month residency at Cove Park, the artist will develop new projects for an exhibition in Vancouver in 2005.

Lisi Raskin 3-28 October

New York artist Lisi Raskin will be based at Cove Park to develop work for a new solo exhibition, Observation Station, at Transmission Gallery in October this year. Residency organised in association with Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.

Lisa's web

Stephen Sutcliffe

Harrogate-born artist Stephen Sutcliffe is known for video works and presentations which involve a collage of a number of different media (sound, spoken word, video, film and literature). At Cove Park he will continue this practice by embarking upon an ‘unofficial collaboration' with the author and poet Thomas Hardy. Sutcliffe has shown widely throughout the UK and this year will exhibit new work in Glasgow, Athens and San Francisco.

Springboard Residency Programme

The Springboard Residencies, funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, are designed to support four recent graduates from UK art schools. Each artist is offered a one-month residency and the oportunity to focus on new projects at a key stage in their careers. This year, the residencies run from 15 August to 9 September and the artists are:

Briony Anderson, Visual Artist, Edinburgh College of Art
www.eca.ac.uk

Doug Ebbage, Visual Artist, Byam Shaw School of Art, London
www.csm.arts.ac.uk

Will Foster, Visual Artist, Glasgow School of Art
www.gsa.ac.uk

David Longshaw, Fashion Designer, Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design, London
www.csm.ac.uk

Crafts

Lucian Taylor

Lucian Taylor was awarded the 2005 three-month Crafts Residency, funded by the Scottish Arts Council. Taylor has worked extensively in silver, producing functional and decorative work for exhibitions and commissions. Based upon research into notions of abundance and luxuriance, recent work has involved a series of experiments in materials and processes that explore the possibilities of viewing metal as a stuffed membrane. He has shown widely throughout the UK and in 2004 was awarded the British Jeweller's Association Silver Award at the 25th Chelsea Craft Fair.

www.luciantaylor.co.uk

Literature

András Forgách

 This year's International Literary Fellowship, funded by the SAC, was awarded to the Hungarian writer András Forgách. Born in Budapest in 1952, András has published several novels, plays and translations into Hungarian of the work of Tennessee Williams, Joe Orton, Jean Genet and Sarah Kane. 3 May – 29 July

Yang Lian

In 2004, Cove Park's International Literary Fellowship was awarded to the acclaimed Chinese poet Yang Lian. During the 1970s Lian was one of a group of young underground poets who published the influential Chinese literary magazine Jintian. Since then he has published seven selections of poetry translated into more than 20 languages. Lian will be based at Cove Park in August this year when he will also contribute to the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

The Translation Programme

The Translation programme is based on the premise that a faithful rendering of a writer's work does not necessarily convey its true intent or significance. In 2005 and 2006 residencies will be held at Cove Park for British, Chinese and Israeli poets. The residencies will give each of the poets involved the opportunity to work with those from another culture and to identify the sympathies which lie between them, as people and as artists. The aim is the transformation of a work of art created in one language into an original work of art in another. The participating poets to date include: Polly Clark, Bill Herbert, Pascale Petit, Anthony Dunn (all UK) and Yang Lian, Tang XiaoDu, Zhou Zhan, Xi Chuan and Zhai Yong Ming (all China).

Performing Arts

Wang Xiaoli

Wang Xiaoli lives in Beijing. A former journalist, she has written for television, film and theatre. Recent projects include the screenplay, ‘Return in Winter' for film director Shi Runjiu and the short play ‘Under the Streetlight' performed as a rehearsed reading at the Royal Court Theatre in London. The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, presented the world premier of her latest play ‘In the Bag', about cultural change in China, in April this year 9-18 May

Choreographic Development

In 2004, and with support from the Jerwood Charity and the SAC, Cove Park launched the Choreographic Development Programme. This programme gave eight Scottish choreographers the opportunity to work collaboratively, with artists from a wide variety of backgrounds, on the development of new projects. This year, more leading choreographers will be invited to Cove Park and the programme will continue throughout 2005. The participating artists include: Alan Greig, David Hughes, Kally Lloyd Jones, Karl Jay-Lewin, Skye Reynolds (with Angus Balbernie) and Colette Sadler.