Time + Space: 2026 Group Exhibition
Huss Al-Chokhdar, Hetal Chudasama, Gianni Esporas & Abi Lewis
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: Hetal Chudasama, An Hour in Chrysalis, 2026.
About Time + Space
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.
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Abi Lewis, Night Tether, 2026. Photo: Eoin Carey
Gianni Esporas, Monotonous Brunette, 2026. Photo: Eoin Carey
Huss Al-Chokhdar, The Ship That Left Without Us, 2026. Photo: Eoin Carey
Installation view of Time + Space 2026 Group Exhibition. Photo: Eoin Carey
About the artists
Huss Al-Chokhdar
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
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
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
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.
Supporters
Collective Gallery is supported by Creative Scotland and the City of Edinburgh Council.
John Preston Trust support Time + Space by funding the place of an Edinburgh-based artist. The recipient of this year’s John Preston Award is Abi Lewis.
About John Preston Trust
John Preston Trust was established by Roz Preston to honour her late husband’s memory by supporting young creatives pursue careers in music and the arts. The Trust helps emerging artists overcome barriers to access in creative sectors, and promotes the realisation of artists’ creative ambitions. Starting from a role in an Edinburgh record shop, John Preston had a celebrated career in the music industry, working for Decca, Polydor and RCA, before becoming the chairman of BMG Records, UK and Ireland. The John Preston Trust welcomes applications from artists and musicians developing their talent and interest in their chosen field.
Apply and find out more at: johnprestontrust.co.uk
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