Time + Space: 2026 Group Exhibition

About this event

We’re excited to announce the first group exhibition part of Time + Space, our new programme that supports early career artists in Scotland. Presenting new work in film, sculpture and site-specific printmaking and spread across both gallery spaces, this Time + Space group show showcases the work of four early career artists based in Scotland who have been developing their practice with the support of Collective Gallery over the past year. Image credit: Huss Al-Chokhdar, The Ship That Left Without Us, Work in progress film still,  2026. Time + Space is Collective Gallery’s new open programme for early career artists in Scotland, and sits at the core of our mission and creative vision. The programme builds on the success of our previous programmes, Satellites (2014-2024) and New Work Scotland (2000-2013). We have undertaken a review of our previous Satellites programme and reflected with past participants to inform how we can best work with and support early-career artists in the coming years. Find out more Access information Find out more about access at Collective Gallery About the artists Huss Al-Chokhdar is an Arab multidisciplinary artist, performer, and filmmaker based in Glasgow. His work explores queerness, memory, and exile, weaving together personal and political narratives that confront displacement, censorship, and survival. Moving across moving image, performance, installation, and sound, his practice creates spaces for fragmented histories and silenced voices, challenging dominant narratives around Arab and diasporic experiences. Al-Chokhdar graduated from The Glasgow School of Art with a Bachelor of Arts specialising in Sculpture and Environmental Art in 2021. He was LUX Scotland’s Programming Fellow in 2025 and has held programming and curating positions at the Scottish Queer International Film Festival and Refugee Festival Scotland. Hetal Chudasama is a visual artist based in rural Scotland. Her practice spans a variety of art forms, materials, and spatial constructs, with a primary focus on creating immersive environments that serve as spaces for observation, introspection, and intimate reflection. After relocating from India to the UK, Hetal’s current practice reflects a re-establishment within a new geographic and institutional context. Working primarily with woodcut and reclaimed wooden surfaces, she explores how scientific and mythological worldviews are shaped and circulated through printed images. Chudasama graduated from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India with a Master of Visual Arts (Fine Arts). Gianni Esporas is an artist and filmmaker based in Glasgow. Her practice stems from utilising hair as an abject material. Interested in what happens when this component is extracted from the source, her practice generates questions around colonial hierarchies, the white gaze, and postcolonial futures. Esporas graduated from The Glasgow School of Art with an MLitt in Art Writing in 2023, she also holds a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Art Practice, Moving Image from Gray’s School of Art. She has previously shown work at Generator Projects, Spectra Festival and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. Abi Lewis is a visual and performance artist from Wales who lives and works in Edinburgh. Working with a wonky aesthetic, she is fascinated by the everyday and the ritualistic power of physical objects, natural oddities, and folkloric narrative. Their work repurposes discarded materials that have been hoarded, adopted, gifted, or gathered, forming narratives through painting, performance, and sculpture. Through playful self-performative portraits and soft indelicate sculptures, Lewis’ practice investigates themes related to identity and the self. Lewis is founder and committee member of Sett Studios, a collectively run, independent, non-hierarchical artist-led studios with dedicated gallery space in Leith. Supporting marginalised artists from socially and financially disadvantaged backgrounds, jointly creating cross-platform exhibitions and events featuring art, music and performance. You might also like Support Us Support Us Help Collective Gallery to continue supporting early career artists in Scotland and maintain our historic site Donate