SLOUGH STUDIOS is a residency and retreat for all creatives. The experience, be it time in nature, arts based research, or art creation, is facilitated by artist and owner, Kathryn Cooke.
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Kathryn Cooke
Kathryn is a healer, artist and writer. She has been a practicing paediatrician for 32 years. In 2010 she took a deep dive to become a critical thinker and art practitioner, receiving her BFA from the now Alberta University of the Arts in 2014. She went on to obtain her MFA in June 2022 from the University of Hartford, Connecticut and subsequently retired from medicine to become a full time artist. Kathryn believes that knowledge acquired through exploration and diversity of inquiry generates rich, wholistic epistemologies. She is passionate about providing a space where such deep work can be generated. Kathryn’s multimedia work includes 2D, textile, video, sound and poetry. Kathryn works to provide cultural responses to global conditions of this time and hopes the work can be healing and generative. Her work investigates relationships with the natural world. Through her research she hopes to deeply understand her immediate landscape and how the ecology of the psyche is entangled with those of the land and our more-than-human companions.
artist website:
kathryncooke-blueyestudio.com
THE STUDIO
Slough Studios is an interdisciplinary arts based research facility where ideas emerge from dedicated deep thinking and exploration. Visitors live and create in the large, stand-alone studio which offers a large private space with a wood burning fireplace, extensive natural light, multiple work spaces both indoors and outdoors, relaxation and kitchen space with fridge, air fryer oven, and an outdoor luxurious camp stove. The studio has its own bathroom with shower. The exterior patio offers stunning views of the Columbia River Wetlands and Purcell Mountain Range.The studio sits adjacent to the home of owner and facilitator, Kathryn Cooke, and is situated upon 73 acres of mountain landscape. Walking trails are accessed outside the studio door. The wetlands are explored in kayaks, complimentary of the studio. Recreation of hiking, mountain biking, gravel biking, x-country skiing, and downhill skiing at Kicking horse mountain resort, are steps away. Welcome to Slough Studios.
The Columbia River Valley: a place to play and explore
ART MAKING
RESIDENCY AND RETREAT RATES:
Artist Residency: Single occupancy-800$/week, Double occupancy- 1000$/week - Artist Bio and residency goals required.
ACCOMMODATION ALONE: 250$/night
Booking arranged through contacting Kathryn Cooke:
kathryncooke1@gmail.com
kathryncooke-blueyestudio.com
SLOUGH STUDIOS: A place to slow down, explore and create
THE MAIN CABIN
The Main Cabin houses Kathryn, Slough Studios’ owner and director, on the upper floor. The space also offers a cozy room for an artist on the main floor with a private ensuite bathroom. The cabin hosts shared living space which includes a second main floor bathroom, kitchen, living room with fireplace, and main floor decks. A fridge in the entrance room is offered for residents to refrigerate their personal food. All residents are welcomed in this space to merge and share meals, ideas and experiences.
600$ /week single occupancy
800$/week double occupancy
1500$/week for family occupancy ( three bedrooms )
WHERE WE PLAY:
We are blessed and privileged to be able to play here in the Columbia River Wetlands and surrounding mountain ranges.
