Residency: Interweaving Threads - Scotland and Norway through Dress, 2026

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A Residency for artists, designers and makers based in Scotland and Norway: Owen Edward Snaith and Ingrid Bjørnevog Haugnes.

DATE FOR RESIDENCY: Norway, 13 April to 3 May 2026 / Scotland 11 – 31 May 2026

MORE INFORMATION VIA COVE PARK: Residencies – Cove Park.

This residency is a unique opportunity for two artists or designers 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 for this have been announced as Owen Edward Snaith, a Scottish designer working across fashion, textile design and mixed media art, and Ingrid Bjørnevog Haugnes, a Norwegian textile craft practitioner, artist, and designer based in Oslo. Both will be offered fully-funded research and production- focused residencies with supported access in Scotland and Norway 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.

Two residencies have been awarded and are fully funded: one to an artist based in Scotland, and one to an artist based in Norway. Both recipients will be awarded a three-week residency at Cove Park and three weeks in Norway at the Museum Centre of Hordaland (MUHO).