Interweaving Threads Residency Cove Park

Interweaving Threads Residency is a new programme for textile artists, designers, and makers based in Scotland and in Norway.

Cove Park is accepting applications for the Interweaving Threads Residency, a new programme for textile artists, designers, and makers based in Scotland and in Norway. The programme will support one artist/designer/maker based in Scotland and one based in Norway. Both artists/designers/makers will be awarded residencies at MUHO in Norway in April 2026 and at Cove Park in May 2026, in addition to the opportunity for supported research including access to national and regional archive and dress collections in Norway and Scotland, plus support required for the development of new work.

This residency is a unique opportunity for artists, designers and makers to engage with ideas circulating around traditional dress, fashion and textiles. Key concepts are heritage, diversity and identity. It is hoped that it will stimulate and open new avenues of research and exploration within the artist’s own work, relevant to their own practices and concerns. It is intended that studying traditional dress, fashion and textiles in both Norway and Scotland should be a focus of the residency, and that the resources available through the study of collections and archives will lead to new ideas and areas of interest - culminating in in a tangible design, ideally for exhibition and display on a mannequin.

The recipients will be offered fully-funded research and production- focused residencies with supported access in Scotland at Cove Park and in Norway at MUHO to archive collections that are both national and regional. They shall also be offered the opportunity to share their work via informal events in both countries.

Deadline: 5 January 2026 

https://covepark.org/interweaving-threads-residency-scotland-and-norway-through-dress/