The Bridge Awards Residency 2024 at Cove Park
We are delighted to announce that the participants for the 2024 Bridge Awards Residency at Cove Park have now been selected.
This group residency will be taking place from Monday 20 May to Sunday 27 May 2024. In collaboration with Cove Park, and building upon the first Bridge Awards Residency for an individual artist in 2023, we decided to offer a further 5 fully funded residencies in 2024 for artists based in Scotland whose careers have been impacted by a breast cancer diagnosis and who have undergone successful treatment and are up to five years in remission. The aim of the residency is to provide the artists with time and space to reconnect with their practice, and to do this within the peaceful, supportive, and inspiring context of Cove Park and its national and international residency programme.
The artists selected for the residency include: Film producer and writer Ros Borland, creative arts practitioner Abbey Craig, writer Moira McPartlin and designer Krissy Stewart.
The recipient of the 2023 residency for an individual artist was Susanne Nørregård Nielsen. Susanne is a Scottish-based Danish artist. She is interested in illuminating art works central to the 20th century canon, to provoke new thinking on the impact of artists practice using feminine gendered materiality. She originally trained as a screen-printer in Copenhagen, before studying printmaking and painting at the Art Academy (P.W.S.S.P.) in Poznan, Poland. After two years she went on to study in the Painting and Printmaking Department at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1998. Susanne is a lecturer in the Painting and Printmaking Department of The Glasgow School of Art.
Her current work investigates the influence of textiles on early 20th century visual art, in particular abstract painting with a focus on Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s practice.
Susanne had this to say about her residency at Cove Park:
‘I feel very lucky and grateful for being giving the time and space to reconnect with my practice. During the Spring and Summer it gave me a positive focus and confidence in being able to make work again.
I enjoyed having the beautiful studio space, the peace and focus to just be with, looking and working on the loom, spending time handling the linen yarn, testing out colour and structure and I feel I have come home with weaving samples I can develop. I am very pleased that I have achieved this.
The last Saturday of the residency, I ran a small informal bookmaking workshop for four residents, introducing ‘instant book’ and ‘accordions’, every one felt that it was something that they could use for writing workshops and working with young people.
