Monday March 9th 2026
The Travelling Gallery which is set to come to East Lothian
Written by Midlothian View Reporter, Liam Eunson
East Lothian Council’s Arts Service is bringing the Travelling Gallery to East Lothian this March with the group exhibition named real-time friction.
Travelling Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in a bus. Since 1978 it has been bringing exhibitions to communities throughout Scotland.
This March East Lothian Council Arts Service welcomes the gallery to Tranent, Haddington and Dunbar where local school pupils will be able to visit in the mornings, with it open to the public from 2pm to 4pm. Entry is free.
Places the gallery is set to go:
– Tuesday 24 March at the Lindores Drive car park near the Fraser Centre, Tranent.
– Wednesday 25 March Court Street, near the Corn Exchange, Haddington.
– Thursday 26 March at the Bleachingfield Centre car park, Dunbar.
The exhibition brings together work by five artists, MV Brown, Nina Davies, Gavin Gayagoy, Hardeep Pandahl and Gregor Wright. They explore our relationship with technology and the internet and how, as a medium or material, its slippery nature creates spaces of inauthenticity where curated versions of ourselves blur and distort reality. Algorithms and applications construct fictional narratives or environments to play with or react against.
Spanning performance, moving image, sculpture and drawing, each artist creates a user experience that highlights the friction existing between our physical body and its digital counterpart, with authorship and representation disrupted or rendered through computer generation.
Louise Briggs, Curator, Travelling Gallery, said:
“It has been interesting to think about our ever-increasing relationship with technology through the ideas and artworks of the five artists involved in the show. The exhibition is not meant as a criticism of technology but takes a closer look at its slippery nature where reality can be blurred and authenticity distorted. A number of the artists in the exhibition play with these ideas, whilst others push against them – but all in some way are using technology as a material or medium.”
Councillor Colin McGinn, Cabinet Spokesperson for Community Wellbeing, Sport, Countryside and Leisure said:
“Our Arts Service are bringing the Travelling Gallery to East Lothian as it provides a fantastic opportunity for people in our communities who may not find it easy to travel to galleries, to experience a high quality and thought-provoking exhibition near to them. This exhibition is timely for all of us, young and older, as it explores the relationship we have with technology and social media.”
The Travelling Gallery is accessible to all with ramp access, hearing loop, and large print exhibition interpretation.
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