JustArt Community - Collective Voices Exhibition
Date: March 20-26, 2026
Location: White Space Gallery, Edinburgh (76 EAST CROSSCAUSEWAY, EH8 9HQ)
Curated by JustArt Collective
Curator: Jenny Ping Lam Lin
Assistant Stephanie Siu Yau Leung
Artist list:
Aitor Moncho Tudanca, Andrew Healey, Anna Tuhus, Anthony Hodgson, Bahar Talebi Najafabadi, Baranika Sureshkumar, Chaeyeon Kang, Claudi Piripippi, David Hutchison, Diyara, Donna Kim, Esther/Zhilin Xiang, Galina Orlenko, Guo Cheng, Hanabi Blackmoor, Jingxi Li, Jingyun Guan, Johannes Christopher Gerard, Jonathan Armour, Jordan Leung, Mariia Timoshenko, Martin Fowler, Marvi Khan, Megan Flood, Mollie Faye Harris, Natalia Titova, Nataliia Makina, Neil Wheelock Deforest Smith, Peter Léon, Rachel Larkum, Roseline (Jingyuan) Zhang, Scott O'Sullivan, Seoyoung Park, Seyda Alkin, Stela Brix, Tajinder Dhami, Timothy Yufit, Xiaoxiao Chen, Xiwen Xu, Yeejing Ooi, Yimou Huang, Yu Hao, Yvonne Cavens.
Poster of JustArt Community - Collective Voices Exhibition
JustArt Collective is delighted to share that the Collective Voices exhibition was successfully presented at White Space Gallery, Edinburgh, from 20–26 March 2026. Over seven days, the exhibition brought together emerging and established artists whose works demonstrated the diversity and complexity of contemporary art when presented within a community-driven platform.
Across the exhibition, an expansive range of practices were displayed—painting, ceramics, textiles, photography, installation, mixed media, and sound. What resonated most was not simply the diversity of media but the emotional clarity behind them. Some visitors we spoke to described the exhibition as intimate and grounding, with each artwork felt tethered to a lived reality yet open enough for others to interpret. The minimalist, quiet architecture of White Space Gallery emphasised this sense of closeness, allowing audiences to slow down and spend time with the work.
The opening night on 20 March welcomed over fifty artists and guests. The tone and intentions of the exhibition were set during the opening speeches, acknowledging the importance of non-profit initiatives in an art world where access is often uneven. This was followed by a reflective and diverse Artist Panel Talk featuring nine exhibiting artists and Anita Gao (HelloArt). Their discussions—touching on identity, loss, experimentation, material play, and the emotional labour behind their practices—brought further depth to the show and emphasised the value of platforms where artists can speak openly about their work.
The following afternoon, on 21 March, artist Donna Kim led a hands-on workshop centred on memory, domesticity, and tactile storytelling. Participants worked with fabric, food packaging, and thread to create textile-based journals tied to personal narrative. The atmosphere was warm and contemplative, offering a quieter counterpart to the exhibition and reinforcing the ethos of Collective Voices: that art-making is as much about shared process as it is about final outcomes.
About Donna Kim:
Donna’s work sits in the intersection of craft, art, and technology. With a priority in E-textile, she merges textile-based craft with electronic circuitry to make things such as lighting plushies, fabric-made speakers, pressure sensors, analogue switches, etc. She shared her craft skills with various communities by teaching multiple workshops on basic e-textile craft and circuitry in various places such as NYC Resistor, online guest lecture for wearable design class at SFK int'l art edu, and High School of Fashion Industries. As a maker, she exhibited her e-textile works at Coney Island Maker Faire in 2024(LighTuT-interactive lighting gloves) and 2025(Sensory NYC Diary).
Her textile-based craft started by hand stitching dolls with felt and other scrap fabric and mending clothes, and evolved into integrating electronics with textile-based craft as she gained technical skills.
https://donnathemaker.framer.website/
@makedesigncraftit
On 22 and 23 March, audiences experienced two sound art performances by Juice Cui and Santiago Lowe, who stopped in Edinburgh as part of their European tour. Their performances temporarily transformed White Space Gallery into an immersive acoustic space—layered, atmospheric, and deeply sensory.
Embracing, Unravelling and Smashing the Fantasy
It is a sound art performance for DIY clay mask flutes, handmade accordions, and synthesisers, performed by Juice and cellist Santi Lowe. It reimagines nine Western fairytales and Eastern folktales, offering an audio journey that unsettles nostalgia and invites new interpretations. These tales evoke compassion, valour, imagination, sacrifice, curiosity, and transformation, forming a shifting tapestry of cultural and moral depth.
Juice Cui is a sound artist who also works on sound in theatre, also works in painting, sculpture, film, performance. Juice has graduated from Royal College of Art. Her work explores the equilibrium and collision between structured and chaotic sound, creating immersive sonic worlds that question time, perception, and history. Her work has been showcased in the Science Museum and Outernet. She has performed at Café OTO and Horniman Museum and gardens.
@juice_shuting http://www.juiceportfolio.com
Santiago Lowe is a cellist who has graduated from Royal Academy of Music in London with Jonathan Manson. He is a member of Lowe Ensemble and has also worked as the principal cellist of the Early Music group Ars Combinatoria (Galicia, Spain) with whom he recorded J. S. Bach's Passion according to St. John and new compositions by contemporary composers. Santiago has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Arts Scholarship for 2024/25.
@santilowe https://www.loweensemble.com/santiago-lowe
Photo by Jordan Leung
Across the full exhibition week, one of the most notable responses from visitors and participating artists was how human the show felt. Rather than sticking to a single curatorial aesthetic, Collective Voices celebrated connection and the belief that art gains power when its makers are visible, heard, and supported. The exhibition was intended not merely as a showcase, but as a site of encounter—between artists, between disciplines, and between stories that might otherwise remain unheard.
We remain deeply grateful to all artists, workshop participants, performers, partners, and visitors whose presence made this exhibition meaningful. Edinburgh marked a significant step in the growth of the JustArt Community, and we look forward to continuing to build spaces where artists can share their work openly, authentically, and collectively.
