Time + Space: Group Exhibition Preview
Join us to celebrate the opening of our first group exhibition in our new early career artists' programme, Time + Space
We are excited to present new work from the first cohort of Time + Space group show artists: Huss Al-Chokhdar, Hetal Chudasama, Gianni Esporas & Abi Lewis. Taking over both our gallery spaces, their work will span film, sculpture, painting and site-specific installations exploring themes of ritual, myth and memory.
Time + Space is our new open programme for early career artists in Scotland. The programme combines learning and professional development with a significant exhibition opportunity – supporting artists to develop and sustain their creative practice, to make and present new work, and to engage with our audiences at Collective Gallery.
This event is free but ticketed, so please make sure to reserve your ticket in advance.
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. Using 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.