Open Residencies — Magnetic North Space / Time

Magnetic North’s Space/Time is a paid creative retreat for experienced artists from all disciplines that asks the question “How does an artist keep developing?” It aims to refresh participants through a stimulating examination of creativity. During the residency, we will explore how creativity can be nourished and how artists can continue to challenge themselves to develop. The residency combines facilitated dialogue – built around a series of self-generated questions – with time for individual reflection and work. It is led by Nicholas Bone and Alice McGrath.

Magnetic North was founded in 1999. Led by Artistic Director Nicholas Bone and Producer Anna Hodgart, the company combines developing and producing live theatre with innovative multi-artform artist development. They collaborate with playwrights, composers, choreographers, visual artists, performers and other artists to create a wide range of work including plays, music-theatre, installations, online events and films. Their comprehensive artist development strand has supported over 250 independent artists to continue developing.

Residencies

Elina Bry

Elina Bry is a French-Finnish multidisciplinary artist living in Scotland. They work across film, performance, sound, and photography, exploring the intersections of ecology, memory, and the human body. Their recent research, Is the Earth Chronically Ill?, investigates the entanglement of climate change, geological time, and personal experience. EB is also committed to participatory arts within […]

Magnetic North Space/Time Residency

Pik Kei Wong

Wong Pik Kei choreographs and performs across Scotland and Hong Kong, exploring gender, sexuality, and embodied experience through innovative dance theatre. Her work challenges boundaries, creating intimate performer-audience dialogues. Her solo “Bird-Watching” explores female desire, earning five-star (Summer hall) Edinburgh Fringe reviews. Recent works “Vermin,” VR piece “A Thousand Plateaus,” and “Under∞Line” advance dance’s social […]

Magnetic North Space/Time Residency

Anna Chapman Parker

Anna Chapman Parker is an artist, writer and teacher whose work explores relationships between drawing, writing, body and place. Past exhibitions or commissions include projects for Edinburgh Art Festival, The University of Glasgow, Cample Line and Commonroom.co. She has taught drawing at The Royal College of Art, The Futures Institute and in weedy carparks. As […]

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Audrey Grant

Audrey Grant’s practice includes painting, photography, installation and recently film. Her current work explores real and imagined landscapes. Recent exhibitions and projects include The Long Look: The Making of a Portrait, National Galleries of Scotland (2019); Inscriptions in Arcadia, Bothkennar Pools site-specific commission (2021); Memoria, University of Stirling following her year as Artist in Residence […]

Magnetic North Space/Time Residency

Suzi Cunningham

Suzi Cunningham is a Scottish live-performance artist and Butoh dancer. Her solo work is highly physical, political and responsive to its unique environment, enriched with her sense of design and musical composition. Suzi explores relationships with all life forms as well as manufactured materials, making embodied connections in a way that borders transformation. She has […]

Magnetic North Space/Time Residency

Morven Macbeth

Morven Macbeth

Morven Macbeth is an actor, theatre maker and facilitator based in Scotland. She is an Associate Practitioner with UK theatre company imitating the dog, whose work has, for over 20 years, explored the boundaries between theatre and technology. Morven has toured extensively both nationally and internationally, performing as well as facilitating workshop programmes and leading […]

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Maria Falconer

Maria Falconer

Maria Falconer is a photographic practitioner, teacher and writer. A Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Maria lectures and runs photography workshops across the UK and in Europe. Maria’s commercial specialty is Dance Photo/videography. She has worked at the Edinburgh Festival every year since 2006, and her work has frequently been published in The Guardian, […]

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Jill Skulina

Jill Skulina

Jill Skulina is an artist of diverse skills, knowledge and experience. She creates sculptural work using ceramics, drawing, printmaking, painting, textiles and found objects. In recent months Jill has been pivoting her career as an artist to include writing and mentoring other artists to shift they’re perceptions of what they can achieve. Since 2018 Jill […]

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Jill O'Sullivan

Jill O'Sullivan

Jill O’Sullivan is a Glasgow-based multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter who writes and performs across the worlds of popular music, theatre and dance. O’Sullivan was a founding member of Sparrow and the Workshop & Bdy_Prts and has collaborated with a multitude of renowned musicians including Alasdair Roberts, Alex Neilson, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Scott Hutchinson, Emma Pollock, […]

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Ailie Robertson

Ailie Robertson

Ailie Robertson is a multi-award-winning Scottish composer and musician who has been commissioned to compose works by some of the worlds’s most prestigious cultural institutions including the BBC Proms, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bang on a Can, Cappella Nova, the Riot Ensemble, Exaudi, Scottish Ensemble and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra amongst others. She holds […]

Magnetic North Space/Time

Magnetic North – Space/Time

Magnetic North is an award-winning theatre company based in Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 1999 by theatre and opera director Nicholas Bone. Magnetic North have brought their Space / Time residencies to Cove Park for the past 5 years. The 5-day residency is part of Magnetic North’s Artist Development programme: a creative retreat for experienced artists […]

Magnetic North – Space/Time

Magnetic North

Magnetic North is an award-winning theatre company based in Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 1999 by theatre and opera director Nicholas Bone. Magnetic North have brought their Space / Time residencies to Cove Park for the past 4 years. The 5-day residency is part of Magnetic North’s Artist Development programme; a creative retreat for experienced artists […]

Magnetic North – Space/Time

Hanna Tuulikki, Lynda Radley, Tam Dean Burn, Mary Bourne, Elaine Kordys

Space/Time is a creative retreat for experienced artists from all disciplines that asks the question “How does an artist keep developing?” It aims to refresh participants through a stimulating examination of creativity. During the residency, we will explore how creativity can be nourished and how artists can continue to challenge themselves to develop. The residency combines facilitated dialogue […]

Magnetic North Space/Time

Magnetic North

Magnetic North are back at Cove Park for their annual ‘Space / Time Retreat’. Co-facilitated by Nick Bone and Alice McGrath, the artists selected for this year’s residency are Mamoru Iriguchi (theatre-maker) Maria Oller (theatre-maker) Kirsty Whiten (visual artist) Flore Gardner (visual artist) Anthony Green (composer) Space / Time Retreat aims to bring mid-career artists, […]

Magnetic North

Space/Time is a creative retreat for experienced artists from any art form that asks the question ‘how does an artist keep developing?’ Developed in partnership with Magnetic North, the programme will be led by Artistic Director Nicholas Bone and Alice McGrath. Further information is available here and names of all the participating artists will be […]

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