Laura Aldridge

Launching in Edinburgh outside Portobello Town Hall as part of Art Walk Porty on Saturday 13 September from 10am to 4pm, the exhibition will tour to arts venues, community centres, high streets and schools across Scotland including in Edinburgh, West Lothian, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Inverclyde and Renfrewshire.

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) – an organisation developing 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. It provides an opportunity for artists to extend the life-cycle of artworks, often languishing in long-term storage, and 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, one beyond the ordinary and perhaps 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. Organisations are welcome to enquire about works shown within the exhibition or select another one from the artists’ wider body of work or SPG’s online catalogue.

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.