RESIDENCY PROGRAMMES AT HOSPITALFIELD
In late November 2022, we begun the much-anticipated restoration and expansion of the artists’ studios at Hospitalfield. You can find out more about the restoration here.
While we restore the studios, we have been reviewing our residency programmes to better understand how we can support and facilitate artists with time and space to develop their work. Our review is both piloting and evaluating new models of residencies and artist development and covers all aspects of the programme including open call processes, selection, facilities, residency duration, staff contact, access, fees, charges, partnerships in Scotland and Internationally. We consistently listen to what artists and practitioners have to say through hosting residencies, consultancy and evaluating feedback.
If you have come to our website because you are interested to apply to a residency at Hospitalfield in the future, we’ll be announcing open calls in late 2022 and early 2023.
RESIDENCIES
When we advertise an open call, applications are invited from artists who have a specific project or period of work to focus on and for whom this time will be invaluable. We expect that applicants will have had a formal training or similar and will be developing projects and new work for public exhibition or developing their research with some form of future public outcome in mind. The programmes are structured for individuals working at a range of points in their career. Each has a specific focus, the Interdisciplinary Programme for example aiming to cultivate a group which has the broadest range of practices. Selectors will consider the application statements with care and in accordance with the aims of each of the programmes.
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Please note that currently:
FUTURE PLAN ARTIST RESIDENCIES
- We are currently supporting three artists for residencies at Hospitalfield in September 2023 and July 2024 as part of the development of Phase Four of our Future Plan capital development programme.
FUNDED VISUAL ART RESIDENCY PROGRAMMES: SUMMER AND AUTUMN
- Established in 2013, the funded residency programmes (Summer and Autumn) are devised for those developing their working lives within the scope of contemporary art practice.
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESIDENCY PROGRAMME
- The Interdisciplinary Programme is a self-funded international programme that welcomes applications from a wide range of cultural practitioners. In 2022 we hosted artists who were unable to travel to Hospitalfield in 2020 or 2021 due to the global pandemic.
SCRIPTORIUM TOWN WRITERS RESIDENCIES
- In Winter 2023 we will be announcing details of funded writing Residencies in partnership with Historic Environment Scotland.
GRADUATE PROGRAMME
- The Graduate Programme invites applications from recent graduates of visual art degree courses in Scotland. Applications for the 2022-3 programme have now closed. More info
FLEXIBLE ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAMME
- In 2022-3 we piloted a Flexible Artist Residency programme with artists based in Scotland. The programme this year focuses on artists with caring responsibilities which means they wouldn’t be able to commit to a two week or one month residency. In 2022 this programme is supported by Creative Scotland and is a pilot project on their Radical Care Research programme. More info
COURTHOUSE STUDIO PROGRAMME
- In 2022 we ran the Courthouse Studio Programme, a non-residential artist development programme for artists based in Tayside supported through the Angus Place Partnership and a partnership with the Courthouse Community Trust. Artists were given studio space, a peer network and critical support gatherings over an 8-week period. More info
STUDIO TIME PROGRAMME
- From late 2020 – 2022 we ran the Studio Time Programme. The Studio Time commissioning model was devised to address the issues that emerged from the early stages of the pandemic when we saw artists under such pressure. We looked at how we could work with artists to make new work by supporting research, audience and project development when it was unclear when work could be experienced in a live public context. We worked with artists Mick Peter, Jade Montserrat, Luke Pell, Hanna Tuulikki, Rehana Zaman and Sally Hackett. We continue to work with Rehana Zaman to realise a new moving image work titled Rubus when we open the historic studios in early 2024. Artists were supported with funds to cover their time to develop ideas, research and test out materials and processes.
PARTNERSHIPS
We also develop partnerships and group projects to initiate residencies for UK and international artists.
2023
We are working with:
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and Fonderie Darling in Montreal to support a residency exchange programme over 3 years supported by Conseil des arts de Montréal and British Council Scotland.
Tabakalera San Sebastian & CCA Glasgow to support an exchange residency between Basque and Scotland.
British Council on the Future Re-Imagined Residencies with Ukraine.
We continue to work with New Contemporaries and Chamber Music Scotland on artist development partnerships.
2022
We worked with partners British Council Lebanon through their CATAPULT Artist Development Programme in collaboration with Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, New Contemporaries (London) on their New Writing Programme, The World ReImagined and Arika.
2021
We partnered with Arika and with New Contemporaries (London).
2019
We worked with partners including British Council Ukraine on the SWAP Programme, New Contemporaries (London), CBK Rotterdam, Scotland/Japan Residency Exchange Programme, and Goethe-Institut Glasgow.
We had a long running partnership with Royal Over-Seas League.
RESIDENCY STRUCTURE
Participants in the programme live and work in the house, studios, gardens and courtyards of the estate. The location overlooking the North Sea gives a feeling of isolation and is an extremely peaceful place to work however, once off the threshold of the estate the reality is that Hospitalfield is a part of the small fishing town of Arbroath and within walking distance of useful amenities. Arbroath station is on the east coast train line running from London to Aberdeen and the direct trains to all of the main Scottish cities. The long daylight hours in the spring and summer, beautiful coast line and high percentage of sunshine hours defines this part of Scotland.
FACILITIES
Read more information about our studios and other facilities.
CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES
BRITISH COUNCIL
Hospitalfield and the British Council have worked on several project including the SWAP UK / Ukraine Residency Exchange Programme, Trans Atlantic Artists Residency Exchange with British Council Caribbean and a collaboration with Clark House Initiative, Mumbai with British Council Scotland.
RECENT RESIDENCIES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BRITISH COUNCIL
2022
Laetitia El Hakim, Lebanon, selected from the Catapult programme to join the Interdisciplinary programme.
Elias Nafar, Lebanon, selected from the Catapult programme to join the Interdisciplinary programme.
2019
Yevgen Nikiforov, Ukraine, selected for the Autumn Residency.
2017
Ranjeeta Kumari, India, selected for Summer Residency.
Sumesh Sharma, India, invited for study visit.
Camille Chedda, Jamaica, selected for Summer Residency.
RELATED NEWS POSTS
Scotland Japan Residency Exchange Programme
Between 2019 and 2020 Hospitalfield, Cove Park and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (ESW) have been collaborating with a number of partners in Japan (AIT, TOKAS and ARCUS project) to deliver a new residency exchange programme for artists, makers/designers and curators based in Scotland and in Japan.
This programme, supported by British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, takes place over two years, marking the British Council’s UK/Japan 2019/2020 Season of Culture and the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
Scotland / Japan Residency Exchange Programme Artists
2020
Emmie McLuskey, ARCUS Project, Ibaraki
2019
Nobuko Tsuchiya, Cove Park, selected for Summer Residency
Nao Nishihara, Hospitalfield, selected for Autumn Residency
Florence Dwyer, Arts Initiative Tokyo and Creative Residency in Arita
Stacey Hunter, Arts Initiative Tokyo and Creative Residency in Arita
ARCUS Project / Hospitalfield Residency Exchanges
ARCUS Project Ibaraki and Hospitalfield maintain an ongoing residency exchange which formed the basis for our participation in the Scotland Japan Residency Exchange Programme.
Tomoko Sato, Hospitalfield, selected for Autumn Residency 2019
Lesley Young, ARCUS Project, February 2019
Kazuya Takagawa, Hospitalfield, selected for Autumn Residency 2018
Natsumi Aoyagi, Hospitalfield, selected for Autumn Residency 2018
NEW CONTEMPORARIES
For the last five years Hospitalfield has worked with New Contemporaries, to provide a Studio Residency to one of their alumni. New Contemporaries is the leading UK organisation supporting emergent art practice from UK Art Schools. Since 1949 they have consistently provided a critical platform for new and recent fine art graduates.
RECENT RESIDENCIES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NEW CONTEMPORARIES
New Writing Weekend, Christopher Bond, Seran Metcalfe, Bela Riza, Shamica Ruddock, Agnieszka Szczotka, UK, selected in partnership with Hospitalfield to join a writing focussed weekend retreat at Hospitalfield in November 2022.
Alicia Reyes McNamara, UK, selected to join the Autumn Residency at Hospitalfield in September 2021.
Jasmine Johnson, UK, selected for a residency at Hospitalfield in September 2019.
Marie Jacotey, UK/France, selected for a residency at Hospitalfield in September 2018.
Alice Browne, UK, selected for a residency at Hospitalfield in September 2017.
RELATED NEWS POSTS
Marie Jacotey selected, 2018…
Alice Browne selected, 2017…
Studio Residency for Bloomberg New Contemporaries Alumni…
ROYAL OVER-SEAS LEAGUE: 1999-2017
Our longest standing residency partnership was with the Royal Over-Seas League, an organisation based in London and Edinburgh, which is dedicated to championing international friendship and understanding throughout the Commonwealth and beyond with the aim to maintain social and cultural links worldwide.
The ROSL Visual Arts Scholars have taken part in residencies at Hospitalfield since 1999. In 2013 the scheme was refreshed to also provide a significant exhibiting opportunity for the Scholar by working with specially selected commissioning partners around the UK to choose the artists and work with them on a public project in the subsequent year. This continued until 2017. Below is a summary and you can read in detail about this programme here…
RESIDENCIES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ROSL
2017
Madiha Ajiaz, Pakistan, selected with Liverpool Biennial.
Stephanie Hier, Canada, selected with David Dale Gallery, Glasgow.
2016
Tahi Moore, New Zealand, selected with The Grundy, Blackpool.
Jessica Yu, Australia, selected with Rhubaba, Edinburgh.
Bogosi Sekhukhuni, South Africa, selected with Auto Italia, London.
2015
Bianca Baldi, South Africa, selected with AV Festival, Newcastle.
Dineo Seshee Bopape, South Africa, selected with Collective, Edinburgh.
Tamara Henderson, Canada, selected with Glasgow International.
2014
Song-Ming Ang, Singapore, selected with Camden Arts Centre, London.
Julie Favreau, Canada, selected with Edinburgh Art Festival.
Manish Nai, India, selected with DCA, Dundee.
2013
Mehreen Murtaza, Pakistan, selected with GeneratorProjects, Dundee.
Lerato Shadi, South Africa, selected with Iniva, London.
Adele Todd, Trinidad & Tobago, selected with CCA, Glasgow.
RELATED NEWS POSTS
ROSL Visual Art Scholars programme page…
ROSL Visual Art Scholars 2016 announced…
ROSL Visual Art Scholars 2015…
GOETHE-INSTITUT GLASGOW
From 2019 – 2022 we worked with Goethe Institut Glasgow to support an artist based in Germany to undertake a one-month residency at Hospitalfield as part of the funded Autumn Residency 2019 programme with further funds available to support a new work to be presented in Scotland.
The artist selected was Bob Kil who was selected with Talbot Rice Gallery Director Tessa Giblin.
Bob Kil returned to Scotland in July 2022 to realise the performance Chameleon at Glasgow Women’s Library, a work which developed between 2019 – 22 and through a relationship with GWL established during the residency in 2019. More info on Chameleon
TOTTENHAM HALE INTERNATIONAL STUDIOS
From 2016-2018 Hospitalfield worked with THIStudios in London to create a residency exchange that fits within Hospitalfield’s DD Artists Programme, which creates opportunities for artists living in its region; and THIStudios International Residency Exchange Programme, designed to facilitate new links with the studio holders, residents and communities around their building in North London. The two organisations launch open calls to artists in the DD postcode region of Angus and Dundee and to studio holders at THIStudios each year.
RECENT RESIDENCIES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THISTUDIOS
2018
Astrid Leeson, UK, selected for residency at THIStudios.
Paula Smolarska, selected for residency at Hospitalfield.
2017
Amy Jones, UK, selected for residency at THIStudios.
Sophie Mallett, selected for residency at Hospitalfield.
2016
Carla Cruz, UK/ Portugal, selected for residency at Hospitalfield.
Holly Keasey, UK, selected for residency at THIStudios.
RELATED NEWS POSTS
THIStudios Residency Exchange 2016…
Call out to DD Artists…
Sophie Mallett selected…
MAKE WORKS
Hospitalfield worked with the online directory of manufacturers Make Works from 2015-2018 to create residencies in connection with factories and manufacturing organisations in Scotland for visual artists and designers. This has been supported by William Grant Foundation.
RECENT RESIDENCIES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MAKE WORKS
2016 – 2018
Nick Evans, UK, selected for Future Plan Collection lighting project.
Victoria Morton, UK, selected for Future Plan Collection fabric project.
Katie Schwab, UK, selected for Future Plan Collection furniture project.
2015
Bespoke Atelier, UK/ France, selected for residency with Smyth Composites.
James Rigler, UK, selected for residency with Fyfe Glenrock.
RELATED NEWS POSTS
Future Plan Collection Projects…
What happens when you put Textile Designers into a resin factory…
MONDRIAAN FOUNDATION
In 2017 Hospitalfield developed a new residency format with Mondriaan Foundation to give a long term four-month residency to a Netherlands-based artist. This allowed the resident to overlap with and interact with several different residency programmes during the summer and autumn.
RECENT RESIDENCIES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MONDRIAAN FOUNDATION
2017
Isabel Cordeiro, Netherlands / Portugal.
RELATED NEWS POSTS
Isabel Cordeiro selected, 2017…