Cove Park Artist Selected 2024/25

We are delighted to announce that Melanie Stidolph has been selected for the first Creative Kernow Associates residency at Cove Park. Melanie will spend two weeks living and working on the 50-acre site overlooking Loch Long and the Firth of Clyde in March 2025, a period which marks the beginning of a year-long sabbatical to focus on her practice.

Melanie’s work is rooted in photography, exploring her relationship to grief and longing in relation to childlessness. Her photos pay attention to, and are in response to, slight changes of light, movement and the interaction of humans with the landscape. Recently her practice has expanded to incorporate working with others, and to bring the voice to the landscape as the trigger to change – literal and emotional. She is looking to start expanding this work on the voice during her time at Cove Park, developing scripts to bring an imaginative dimension to a practice that is built on a quiet observation of the real.