2006 Residency Programme
Scottish Writer in Residence May - July
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The 2006 programme brought together artists from as far afield as Australia, Canada,
Denmark, France, Ireland, Israel and Romania among the 60 individuals offered residencies
to enable research and the development of new work.
Visual Arts
Fiona Jardine 5 June - 1 September
Cove Park's annual three-month Visual Arts Residency, funded by the Scottish Arts Council,
was awarded to Fiona Jardine. Based in Glasgow, Fiona has exhibited widely throughout
the UK and internationally. Her recent work has involved the integration of wall painting,
wall-mounted paintings, drawings, collages, reliefs and sculpture in a complex
, coherent whole. Literary sources, particularly the work of Francois Rabelais and Sir
Thomas Urqhuart (Rabelais' Scottish translator), act frequently as a starting
point for the development of Jardine's work and her own creative writing feeds directly into her visual arts practice.
A new exhibition by the artist is currently on show at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (until 13 May).
Recent projects by Kevin Hutcheson have focused upon the study of the design of film
magazines from the '50s to the '70s and the relationship of their specific aesthetic to contemporary
design and cultural trends. This source material both informs and is employed in the
artist's current series of collages, drawings and paintings. During
his one-month residency at Cove Park, the artist will produce a new
body of work for exhibition at EAST International this year.
Tim Facey 5 June - 7 July
Tim Facey, a graduate of Glasgow School of Art, produces large-scale sculptural
installations by piecing together paper, plastic or metal sheets to form a single
plane. The integrity of the material is tested, through tension and compression, to
breaking point, before being repaired and documented in evolution
(from site to site and exhibition to exhibition). Influenced by cartography,
individual incidents are recorded and patched together to form a map.
The materials are further enriched through laborious processes involving dye, paint and
polish: for every element that is added to the work, another is removed.
In this way, the artist's work remains in constant evolution.
Lynn Hynd 31 July - 25 August
Lynn Hynd employs drawing techniques via paint, marbling, ink, watercolour and marker
pen to explore contrast and the juxtaposition of visual elements. She is concerned
largely with a physical conflict and the readings between an object's structure
as a contained three-dimensional surface and the two-dimensional characteristics
of drawn elements. The artist lives and work in Glasgow.
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.
Applied Arts
The 3-Month Crafts Residency - Joe Pipal
Cove Park's annual three-month Crafts Residency was awarded tp the London-based cabinetmaker
and furniture designer Joe Pipal. Pipal makes quality bespoke furniture, designs for manufacture
and has completed many successful commissions. During his residency, he will develop furniture
based around the process of laminating curved forms in wood, combining species and
introducing other materials to create something new from this traditional process. New work
by Pipal will be shown at Origin: The London Craft Fair in October this year.
The Jewellery and Silversmithing Residency - Alex Ramsay
This new one-month residency was designed to support professional UK jewellers and
silversmiths. It was awarded to London based Silversmith Alex Ramsay.
Valerie Olleon
Literature
International Literature Residency
The Romanian poet Vasile Baghiu is the first of Cove Park's two 2006 International
Literature Resident. During communist times, Baghiu's publication options were extremely
limited but, since the end of the regime, his poetry, literary critiques, essays and
prose have been published in Romania's most important literary magazines and daily
journals. He has published six books of poetry in Romanian and one collection in English,
'The One Who Travels Instead of Me'. His work has also appeared
in anthologies and magazines in Italy, Spain and Germany.
Amir Or is the founder of the Helicon Society for the Advancement
of Poetry in Israel. He is currently Director and Chief Editor of Helicon Poetry Journal.
He has translated poetry and prose from Greek, Latin, English and other languages and his
collections of poetry include 'I Look Through the Monkey's Eyes' (1987), 'Faces' (1991),
'Ransoming the Dead' (1994), 'So' (1995), 'Poem' (1996) and 'Day' (1998). Selections of
his poems have been published in translation in 'Poetry is a Criminal Girl', 'Miracle'
and 'Drowning, He Breathes Living Water' as well as in various anthologies and magazines
in German, English, French, Spanish, Russian, Slovenian, Polish, Arabic and Japanese.
Margaret Atwood
In association with the SAC, the internationally acclaimed author Margaret Atwood will be on
residency at Cove Park in September this year. The Booker Prize winner was awarded the inaugural
Muriel Spark International Fellowship in March. Atwood has written more than 30 works
of fiction, poetry and critical essays, including 'The Blind Assasin', which won the 2000 Booker Prize for Fiction.
Poet-to-Poet Translation
Poet-to-Poet Translation is based on the premise that a faithful rendering of
a writer's work does not necessarily convey its true intent or significance. In 2006
the project will involve poets writing in Hebrew, Arabic and English. 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 will be announced in July.
The Jerwood Residencies
Nominated by leading performing arts companies, artistic teams of up to seven people
spend one to two weeks at Cove Park working on a number of performance projects in
their early stages of development. They include theatrical versions of 'the Bicycle Thieves',
'St. George and the Dragon' and 'Touching the Void'; the artists include Greg Thompson, Carl Heap,
Jeremy Akerman and Eddie Ladd.
Dance Development
In 2004, and with support from the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and the SAC,
Cove Park launched the Dance Development Programme. In the past two years, this
programme has given leading Scottish choreographers the opportunity to work collaboratively, with
artists from a wide variety of backgrounds, on the development of new projects.
This year, five choreographers will be invited to Cove Park and the programme
will continue throughout 2006. The participating artists include: Janice Claxton,
Ross Cooper, Karl Jay-Lewin, Kally Lloyd-Jones and Steinvor Palsson.
The Argyll and Bute Residencies
This is the third year of Cove Park's unique Argyll and Bute Residency programme.
In 2006, four residencies for artists working in all art forms were awarded
to textile artist Mhairi Killin, visual artist Nikolas Theilgaard, songwriter/composer IainThompson and poet Erik Wojchik.