Magnetic North is thrilled to announce the six artists who will be participating in 2025 SPACE/TIME.
A paid creative retreat, SPACE/TIME offers a much-needed respite for reflection, facillitated by Nicholas Bone (Artistic Director of Magnetic North) and Alice McGrath (Creative Director of Red Bridge Arts). Our March 2025 residency, hosted by Cromarty Arts Trust, will be the twenty-sixth in the series which has supported more than 100 artists of all disciplines.
Scroll down to read more about the latest round of artists.
Pictured left-right: Andrea Cabrera Luna, Michael Lee Richardson, Rachael Macintyre, Julia McGhee, Sana Obaid, Katherina Radeva.
Andrea Cabrera Luna, originally from Puebla, Mexico, is a Scotland-based director, performer and facilitator. Her work explores the absurdities of everyday life often focusing on play, physicality, comedy, and improvisation. She is the founder of Anahat Theatre and engages with both professional performers and non-actors, directing, dramaturging and designing work that sparks creativity and spontaneous expression. She trained in Directing at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and holds an MA in Performance and Culture from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her poetry appears in Mixtape 2020 and 2021, Writers of Colour Audio Anthologies curated by Hannah Lavery.
Michael Lee Richardson is a writer and filmmaker based in Glasgow. Michael’s short film, My Loneliness is Killing Me – directed by Tim Courtney – won a BAFTA Scotland Award in 2018. It has been shown on BBC Scotland, and at film festivals around the world. Michael currently has film and television projects in development with a range of different production companies. Michael has written prose and poetry, radio drama and children’s nonfiction, and recently edited Fierce Salvage, an anthology of queer Scottish writing, for 404 Ink. Michael is passionate about telling rich, authentic stories about queer and working class lives and culture.
Rachael McIntyre is a performer, director, and community engaged practitioner working in theatre and circus, based in Moray, Scotland. From a family of puppeteers, Rachael has been working in theatre since she was little. When she started training aerial in 2010, at first only as a hobby, she became more interested in how to combine the physical body with the puppet on stage. Now her work is a blend of dance, physical theatre, puppetry, aerial, and circus, with a focus on the visual storytelling of human experience. She is interested in communities and connection, and in particular working with children and young people. She strives to foster creativity that is accessible, exciting, and imaginative.
Julia McGhee is an artist who works across choreography, performance and participatory practice. She is interested in working with movement, the body, objects and materials that can reflect elements of the environment, history and people she sees around her. Her practice involves improvisation, somatic movement, dancing and walking and wild swimming, gathering video and audio material, as well as found objects, stories and history from people locally. She is based in Easter Ross in the Scottish Highlands and collaborates with other artists from interdisciplinary fields to create live indoor and outdoor performance, digital/multi-media projects and community engagement events.
Sana Obaid is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, printmaking, performance, and sculpture. Originally from Pakistan and now based in Glasgow, she is a recent MFA graduate with distinction from the Glasgow School of Art, where she was nominated for the prestigious GSA Foulis Medal Award. She has received several accolades, including the Women in Print Prize by Art Lab, UCLAN, Preston (2024), the Gilbert Bayes Sculptors Award (2024), the East-West Fellowship from the University of Hawaii (2022), Scotland’s Saltire Scholarship (2022), and the GSA Chairman Medal Award (2024). Sana initially specialized in Miniature Painting at the National College of Arts, Lahore, graduating in 2007. In 2013, she was awarded the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Scholarship to pursue an MA in Art & Design Studies from Beaconhouse National University, Lahore. Her training in miniature painting has profoundly influenced her artistic journey, leading her toward a contemplative and spiritual approach. The meticulous, repetitive nature of the technique deepened her engagement with spiritual philosophies, particularly Sufism. Coming from a Sufi lineage, she found that her connection to spirituality became more evident through her art-making, leading her to forge her own path—one where artistic practice serves as a meditative and transformative experience. For Sana, creating art is akin to prayer—a process of healing, wholeness, and the cultivation of divine energies. Since completing her MFA in June 2024, Sana has participated in three residencies: Women in Print, Art Lab Residency in Preston (2025), Artist 2 Artist Micro Residency in Craft Town, UK (June-July 2024), and Visual Art Scotland’s Bothy Residency on the Isle of Eigg (October 2024). Her work has been showcased in major exhibitions, including the VAS Centenary Exhibition at Dalkeith Palace, the RWA Annual Exhibition in Bristol, the 198th RSA Annual Exhibition in Edinburgh, and the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in London, where she was awarded the Art Lab Print Prize (2024). Upcoming projects include a public performance titled “DeWar” at the 2025 Blue Night Event in Nuremberg, Germany, under the theme Love and Peace. Her work has also been selected for the Border Art Fair 2025. Sana is currently developing a new body of work exploring the intersection of art and spirituality while pursuing spiritual training at the Zulma Reyo School of Consciousness in Spain.
Katherina Radeva is a multi award winning interdisciplinary artist working across the performing arts and the visual arts. A first generation migrant from the Thracian valley in Bulgaria, a working class and disabled woman Katherina has resided in the UK for 25 years and in Scotland for the past nine years. She is one half of multi award winning Two Destination Language whose work tours extensively in the UK and internationally and whose community co-creation work has been recognised as exemplary and whose peer to peer conversational residency FIELD has resulted in three publications. Katherina is also a set and costume designer whose designs have been seen on all five continents. Katherina lives rurally and is closely connected to land, folk and ritual. She fosters dogs and makes cracking home grown rhubarb and ginger jam.
Learn more about SPACE/TIME here.