Cove Park Residency
Residency opportunity on Scotland’s west coast at international residency Cove Park
We partner with the international artist residency Cove Park to offer a two-week residency on Scotland’s west coast for a Cornwall-based creative. The opportunity is open to practitioners working in writing, visual arts, sound, music, performance and theatre, design, craft, or architecture.
The selected artist spends two weeks living and working in private, self-catering accommodation on Cove Park’s 50-acre site.
There is no set expectation for the residency outcome, other than a requirement to deliver a talk on their return to Cornwall, sharing insights and experiences from their time at Cove Park.
This residency is funded by Creative Kernow, with £1,000 provided to support travel, living, and materials costs, plus an additional £150 fee for the post-residency talk.
Find out more about Mel Stidolph, the recipient of the 2025 residency, here.
Find out more about Simon Bayliss, the recipient of the 2026 residency, here.
About Cove Park
Cove Park is an international residency with a unique programme of residencies, commissions and collaborative projects.
Since 2000, the site has hosted over 2,000 artists working across a wide range of contemporary art forms and from all career stages, with former residents including Margaret Atwood, Beca Lipscombe, Elizabeth Price, Charlotte Prodger, Simon Starling, Christos Tsiolkas, Jan Verwoert and Louise Welsh.
Cove Park’s residencies are regularly developed in partnership with leading national and international companies, art schools, and organisations such as Varuna, The National Writers’ House in Australia, BBC Scotland, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Gaelic Books Council, and Fluxus Art Projects.
Cove Park also co-leads, with Saari Residence (Finland), the Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action.
Find out more here: covepark.org/about
Image Melanie Stidolph
