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.

DATES: Norway (Museum Centre of Hordaland, MUHO) 13 April to 3 May 2026 / Scotland (Cove Park and An Talla Solais) 11 – 7 June 2026

MORE INFORMATION VIA COVE PARK: Residencies – Cove Park.

This residency, which formed an integral part of Interweaving, was a unique opportunity for two artists to engage with ideas circulating around traditional dress, fashion and textiles. Key concepts were heritage, diversity and identity - with the residency stimulating and opening new avenues of research and exploration within the artist’s own work, relevant to their own practices and concerns.  It was 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 would lead to new ideas and areas of interest - culminating in in a tangible design, ideally for exhibition and display on a mannequin.

The recipients were 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 were offered fully-funded research and production- focused residencies with supported access in Scotland and Norway to archive collections that are both national and regional.

Owen and Ingrid have now been offered the opportunity to share their work in a Seminar in Oslo, based at Oslo Met, as well as an exhibition / display at the V&A Dundee starting in 2027.