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Time + Space: 2026 Group Exhibition
New film, sculpture and site-specific printmaking by early-career Scotland-based artists Huss Al-Chokhdar, Hetal Chudasama, Gianni Esporas and Abi Lewis.
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In the Dome, a sculpture made of real human hair lies asleep on a bed of latex, and it breathes. Gianni Esporas built the felted animatronic, Monotonous Brunette, from the Filipino folk tale of Amamarang, a long-haired woman by day who smothers her victims with her hair at night.
Four early-career artists based in Scotland share the Dome and the Hillside gallery. Hetal Chudasama hangs large woodblock prints from the Dome's ceiling, drawn from tantric cosmological diagrams, so the old observatory has you looking up again. Abi Lewis invites you into a bedroom built from their childhood night terrors, after Fuseli's The Nightmare. Huss Al-Chokhdar's new film, shot aboard The Tall Ship in Glasgow, follows a man through the vessel as memories of an absent lover surface, with Cairo's 2001 Queen Boat arrests at its edges.
It's the first group show of Collective's new programme for early-career artists, so come for new work rather than names you know. Entry is free, Wednesday to Sunday.
Editor's pick
In the old observatory dome, a sculpture of real human hair lies asleep on latex, and breathes. Four early-career artists based in Scotland show new work.
Look for
Monotonous Brunette
Look for the felted animatronic made of real human hair, asleep and breathing on a bed of latex in the Dome.
An Hour in Chrysalis
Look up: Hetal Chudasama's large woodblock prints, based on tantric cosmological diagrams, hang from the ceiling of the former observatory's Dome.
The lamp in fishnet tights
Inside Abi Lewis's bedroom-like Night Tether, a lamp wears fishnet tights and a rug has seven beastly heads, among sculpted critters from their night terrors.
The Ship That Left Without Us
Huss Al-Chokhdar's film follows a man through The Tall Ship in Glasgow as voices, water and machinery blur memory and imagination.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Rainy Days
Skip if
You want established names: all four artists are early-career, showing new work made over the past year.
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- Time + Space: 2026 Group ExhibitionCourtesy of Collective
- Imagine if… Celebrating 30 years of Edinburgh's World Heritage Site‘Auld Reekie City’ by Tony
- Ade Adesina: BardAde Adesina, 'Borders', 2025. Photo: Neil Corall
- Gifted: New Acquisitions at the City Art CentreJessie M. King, Fraunchyse (detail), c.1907. City of Edinburgh Museums & Galleries (Photo: Fine Art Society)
- CollectiveGodot13 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museum of EdinburghStewart Lamb Cromar / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museum of ChildhoodPretzelles / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- City Art CentreMacfack / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- FruitmarketStefan Schäfer, Lich / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0