Cove Park is an international residency based on an outstanding 50-acre rural site in Argyll on Scotland’s west coast. Its programme of residencies, commissions, and collaborative projects respond to and promote the diversity of contemporary artistic practice. Cove Park supports artists, creative practitioners, and researchers to develop and produce ambitious, innovative, and ground-breaking new work for audiences and participants across Scotland and beyond.

Cove Park’s residencies are unique in the UK. From its launch in 2000, the programme was conceived for local, national, and international artists working individually and in collaboration in all art forms, and at every career stage. Cove Park remains the only residency in the UK to bring together at any one time, and consistently throughout the year, up to 14 individuals specialising in a wide range of disciplines. This means it can offer exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary work and cultural exchange.

Cove Park's Awarded Residencies are offered to local, national, and international artists following an application and selection process involving specialist advisors. The appointed residents receive fees in addition to travel, visa, materials, and access allowances when required. Its biennial general call for applications for Awarded Residencies in 2025 and 2026 is currently live and accepting applications until Friday 11 April 2025. Individual artists, collaborators, and collectives will be welcome to apply for residencies of between two weeks to three months taking place between June 2025 and December 2026. By programming over two years, Cove Park aims to offer international artists longer residencies, and to enable UK-based artists to structure their residencies over two years, making possible longer-term support around other professional or caring commitments. Please note, for 2025 and 2026 these residencies are open to individuals, collectives, and collaborative groups based in Scotland and the UK and in Central and South America. Artists from the Central and South American diaspora based in Europe and North America are also welcome to apply.

Other targeted calls for applications for special Awarded Residencies are announced regularly throughout the year on its Current page: https://covepark.org/current/

Cove Park's Open Residencies provide opportunities for those with their own funding to take part in the annual programme: they welcome individuals, collaborators, and collectives – working in every creative discipline or area of research – who are able to meet the costs of a residency through, for example, the support of academic institutions, public funders, or trusts and foundations.

Open Residencies can take place at any time of the year, and can be for as short a time as three nights or as long as four months. This programme is also open to cultural organisations and companies, and the facilities they provide are ideal for collaborative projects, seminars, programme development, and strategic planning. Full site bookings are available with an onsite capacity of 14 people. Prices depend upon the length of stay, the time of year, and whether you are coming on your own or with an organisation or company.