Cove Park was founded in 1999 by Eileen and Peter Jacobs and is located on an outstanding 50-acre rural site overlooking Loch Long on the west coast of Scotland. Since 2000 Cove Park’s residency programme has offered creative and professional development opportunities for national and international practitioners across all creative disciplines.
Cove Park’s 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 and collaboratively in all art forms, in the creative industries and across disciplines, are eligible to apply.
During 2022 Cove Park will offer opportunities for residents to take part in and actively contribute to an enquiry connected to the environmental crisis. This enquiry-based model – for the production of cross-disciplinary work and collective intelligence around pressing global concerns – is founded upon the belief that artistic research is uniquely placed to unpack some of the most acute problems of our times, and that the transformative power of the arts is amplified through collaboration and exchange with other disciplines, including academic and scientific research.
Residencies will take place between April 2022 and March 2023. Within this period residency dates are negotiable. Cove Park is happy to accommodate those UK-based applicants interested in shorter residencies (2-4 weeks) but also welcome applications from those interested in longer periods of time (4 – 12 weeks). They would encourage international applicants to apply for residencies of a minimum of 4 weeks and a maximum of 12 weeks
These residencies are funded and each artist participating in this programme will receive a fee of £450 per week. In addition to the Resident’s Fee, up to £50 towards the costs of travel to and from Cove Park will be offered to residents based in Scotland, up to £150 for those based elsewhere in the UK, up to £250 for those based in the EU, and up to £750 for those based in the rest of the world. Cove Park encourages and is supportive of slow travel, and the time this necessitates can be built into the official residency period.
