Current Exhibition
In Another Realm
Laura Aldridge, Nick Evans, Louise Gibson, Aimee Lax, Aniara Omann & Daisy Richardson
13 September to 6th November 2025
Rounding off Travelling Gallery’s 2025 programme we present In Another Realm, a group exhibition developed in collaboration with Sculpture Placement Group (SPG) and featuring the work of artists Laura Aldridge, Nick Evans, Louise Gibson, Aimee Lax, Aniara Omann & Daisy Richardson.
In Another Realm takes inspiration from science fiction’s engagement with the environment and the genre’s value as a tool for thinking critically about climate change. The selection of works on display in the exhibition suggest an imaginary world and landscape, where traces of human existence can be found, but where life is continuing without us.
Throughout 2025, Travelling Gallery has been touring exhibitions themed around The Environment & Climate Emergency. For In Another Realm we have worked with Sculpture Placement Group (SPG). SPG develop creative initiatives and tools for artists and the wider arts sector to address the urgent challenges posed by the Climate Emergency. The exhibition highlights their Loan Toolkit, an initiative that loans artworks to community groups and organisations. The scheme provides an opportunity for artists to extend the life-cycle of artworks, often languishing in long-term storage and it brings work to new audiences.
This exhibition foregrounds SPG’s vision to provide new display opportunities for existing artworks. It looks to playfully exploit the idea of creating an alternate form of existence for them. This world could be beyond the ordinary and could perhaps exist in parallel to or beyond our current physical world.
All of the works included in the exhibition are a part of SPG’s Loan Toolkit and are available for loan. As part of this project we hope to secure a number of year-long loans supported by the Travelling Gallery. In Another Realm is accompanied by a number of events hosted by Sculpture Placement Group introducing artist’s audiences and communities to their Loan Toolkit. These events will take the form of Speed Networking events and will take place in a number of venues local to the Travelling Gallery’s tour route including Narture (Ayr), The Stove (Dumfries) and another venue to be confirmed. Details of the events will be made available on SPG’s Social Media Platforms and website at https://www.sculptureplacementgroup.org.uk/
In Another Realm tours Scotland between 13 September – 7 November visiting Edinburgh, West Lothian, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Renfrew & Inverclyde. For details of tour dates and venues please check our Tour Dates page.
Artist Biographies
Laura Aldridge (b. 1978, Guildford UK) lives in Glasgow and works in Paisley, Scotland. She is a founding member of the Sculpture House Collective, Paisley. Recent solo exhibitions include: LAWNMOWER, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh (2024); sumVIGOUR, Cample Line, Cample (2021); fromKStoyou, Kunsthalle Stavanger, Norway (2020 –2021); Indirect Sunlight – Laura Aldridge and James Rigler, New Gallery, London, (2018); Plant Scenery of the World, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2017); Go Woman Go!, British Council in Nigeria Season, Abuja, Nigeria (2016); Inside All My Activities, Koppe Astner, Glasgow (2016); California wow!, Tramway, Glasgow (2015); Laura Aldridge, Studio Voltaire, London (2011). Her works are held in the public collections of Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh and The British Council Collection, England.
Nick Evans (b. 1976, Mufulira, Zambia) lives and works in Glasgow. He graduated from the Environmental Art course at The Glasgow School of Art in 2000. In 2021 Evans gained his PhD from Northumbria University. Important exhibitions include: Plaster: Casts & Copies, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield (2015); Devils in the Making, GoMA, Glasgow (2015); Solar Eyes, Tramway, Glasgow (2013); Primary School, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2008) and Abstract Machines, Tate St Ives, Cornwall (2006). In 2011 he was awarded the National Galleries of Scotland inaugural Artists’ Fellowship Award. He lives and works in Glasgow. He has been awarded residencies at Tate St Ives and in the Netherlands at the European Ceramic Work Centre.
Louise Gibson (b. 1985, Scotland UK) graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009 and in 2012 relocated to Berlin until the end of 2017. Gibson is currently based at The Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and works between there and Glasgow focusing on large-scale public and private commissions, as well as independent exhibitions.Recent shows include a solo exhibition Beachheads commissioned by Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and The Henry Moore Foundation for the Edinburgh Art Festival 2025.
Aimee Lax (b. 1977 Bedford UK) creates her works at Stroud Valleys Artspace, Gloucestershire, and is Senior Lecturer in Ceramics at Bath Spa University. She completed her MA in Ceramics at the Royal College of Art in 2005. Solo exhibitions have included Radioactive Boglach New Brewery Arts, Cirencester & Mission Gallery, Swansea (2018 – 2020); Confines and Mutations Stroud Valleys Artspace (2008) and Artificial Nature Over-Seas House, Royal Over-Seas League, London (2005 – 2006). Group exhibitions include; Fusion, Power to the People EUROfusion Expo, Marseille (2021); Splitting the Atom Contemporary Arts Centre CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania (2020) and Invisible You: The Human Microbiome Eden Project (2015). Permanent collections include the V&A, where she was artist in residence in October 2019.
Aniara Omann (b. 1987, Denmark) graduated from the MFA programme at the Glasgow School of Art in 2014 and works across sculpture, video, text and performance. Selected solo exhibitions include Æblet (The Apple), OK Corral exhibition space, Frederiksberg (2022); Birthday of the World – Ungefearh-5, Cologne (2021), Porous Tomorrow – Kling & Bang, Reykjavik (2020); Equanipolis – Humber Street Gallery, Hull (2019) & Cross-Feed with Gary Zhexi Zhang, Market Gallery, part of Glasgow International’s supported programme, Glasgow (2018). Selected group shows include iNsEcurE – Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow (2024; life-bestowing cadaverous soooooooooooooooooooot – CCA, Glasgow, (2024); Body Snatchers (The House) – Like a Little Disaster, Puglia (2021) and A Matter of – Dimensions Variable, Miami (2020).
Daisy Richardson (b. 1975 Edinburgh, Scotland) works across painting, drawing, sculpture and collage. Exhibitions include Ripple Marks, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow (solo exhibition, 2025), Drawing The Unspeakable, Towner, Eastbourne (2024), A Generous Space 3, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield (2023), Entheos, RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow (2022), These Times, Making Space, London (2022), Paint Talk, T103, Glasgow (2022).
Sculpture Placement Group Sculpture Placement Group’s (SPG) mission is to innovate, support artists, and ensure that art is a vital part of everyday life. Through pioneering initiatives and creating useful tools, they aim to break down barriers and create opportunities for artists whilst supporting the wider arts sector to address the urgent challenges of the Climate Emergency. Their Loan Scheme project has been running since 2018. It takes contemporary art out of the gallery and into new contexts and environments by loaning works to community partners – making art part of people’s everyday lives. Since its inception SPG’s Loan Scheme has placed around 70 works of art in non-art settings.
