2007 Residency Programme
Scottish Writer in Residence May - July
Scottish novelist Laura Hird is the first appointment in our new Scottish
Arts Council three-month residency series exclusively for Scottish artists.
Published by Canongate and based in Edinburgh, she has written novels and
short stories as well as non-fiction.
Her web site, www.laurahird.com, showcases new writing internationally.
International Writer May - August
Geetanjali Shree is from New Delhi and is the fourth in our international
residency series for international writers. She is one of only a few
Indian writers of fiction who write in Hindi . She has published novels
and short stories as well as translations into Hindi and has herself
been translated into English, German and Japanese.
Three Month Visual Arts Residency May - August
Our major residency for a visual artist was awarded this year to
Torsten Lauschmann. Originally from Bad Soden in Germany,
Torsten attended Glasgow School of Art in the nineties and has been
based in the city ever since. He works across many media - photography , film,
performance and musical projects , such as his recent collaboration with Traverse
Theatre which involved the creation of an orchestra of domestic appliances.
Future 2007 residencies include visits by The Bush Theatre, two
three-month crafts residencies, our first Fairbairn Programme which brings
together two writers and curators with four innovative visual artists for a
six-week period of collaboration and dialogue, and September will see the
development of our first music commission, culminating in a concert premiere
at Cove Park. As further residencies are confirmed, more information will be
included on these pages.
The Springboard Programme
In 2002, and with support from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation,
Cove Park has launched an annual programme of one-month residencies for
emerging artists who are recent graduates of UK art colleges. This year,
the programme is supported by the Craignish Trust and Friends of Cove Park.
The participating artists include Pio Abad, Giles Bailey and Dorothy Lucus.
Music Residencies
The first year of our music residencies, this will involve a collaboration between composer
Gordon McPherson, filmmaker Dave Dunbar, and contemporary music ensemble Psappha.
Gordon McPherson is presently Head of Composition at the Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Drama and has been commissioned by many ensembles including
the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Hebrides Ensemble.
Dave Dunbar is a freelance producer/film maker. He has shown in the
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Wren Surrealist Film Festival,
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival and BBC 2's Home Grown Talent.
Psappha is one of the UK's leading contemporary music groups and have toured extensively in Europe and the States.
Argyll and Bute Residencies
Cove Park has awarded four two-week residencies to artists who either live and
work in Argyll and Bute or who have close connections to the region. This year,
the writers Alison Clark and Jessica Parkinson, the visual artist Charlotte Hannett
and the filmmaker Martin Smith will take part.
Artists in Schools
In October Cove Park will host residencies for the Visual artists Janice McNab
and John Shankie, and the applied artists Valerie Olleon and Katy West. These artists
will work on site for one-month and will also lead workshops for students of three of
Argyll and Bute's secondary schools. Please visit the Artists in Schools pages of
the website for further information.
The Jerwood Residencies
Paines Plough 7 - 11 May
A creative team from one of the UK's leading new writing theatre
companies worked with playwright in residence Katie Douglas
on her latest play to be produced in association
with the Liverpool Everyman theatre.
The Bush Theatre 21 - 19 May
Josie Rourke - the new Artistic Director of The Bush -
and Literary Manager, Abigail Gonda, invited four playwrights
- Lydia Adetunji, Declan Feenan, Ian McHugh and Abbie Spallen -
to join in conversation with theatre designers, Chris Oram and Lucy Osborne.
Conflict Zone/Soho Theatre 4 - 29 June
Three playwrights and an artistic team devise six stories from real life
experiences in conflict zones around the world. Each play is centred around
different ethnic folk rituals: a Balkan wedding, a Jewish passover, an Arab
coffee house, an Indian festival, an African ritual. The result will be a full
length evening for the Soho Theatre in late July followed by the Edinburgh Festival.
Three-month UK/International and Scottish Craft ResidenciesJune - October 2007
This year, for the first time, Cove Park has created two three-month Crafts residencies:
one for a UK/International applied artist and one for a Scottish applied artist.
The UK/International Craft residency was awarded to ceramicist Andrea Walsh.
Her work frequently combines bone china and glass, creating pieces
that explore and liken the inherent properties of both materials. Walsh graduated from the
Masters of Design course at Edinburgh College of Art in 2001 and continues to
live and work in Edinburgh. She recently presented work at Origin, the London
Craft Fair, in October 2006 and in a solo exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery,
Edinburgh, in November 2006.
The Scottish Craft residency was awarded to Steff Norwood. A graduate of
ECA's sculpture department, Norwood has more recently moved into the area of
bespoke furniture design. The artist also took over the Old Jail, Tobago
Street Glasgow, in 2000, where he has made workable studios, workshops and
recording spaces for many other artists in the city. In 2007, he
developed a project based on aspirational designs for an empty shop unit,
as part of the Six Cities Design festival in Aberdeen.
Silversmithing and Jewellery Residency July 2007
This residency, now in its second year, was awarded to Edinburgh-based silversmith
Grant McCaig. McCaig graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1998 and
currently lives and works in Edinburgh. He has shown in galleries at home and
abroad and had his first solo show at the Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh,
in April 2007. Current work sees the influence of forms shaped for sea
travel, and through this, explores nature's effect on the man made.
The Fairbairn Programme August - September 2007
This year sees the launch of a new series of residencies supported by the Esmée
Fairbairn Foundation. The programme brings together UK based visual artists Laura
Aldridge, Ilana Halperin, Derek Lodge and Tobias Sternberg, and writer/curators
Dan Kidner and Polly Staple, for a six-week programme of research and exchange.