Seedlings: Diasporic Imaginaries Travelling Gallery - Scotland’s contemporary art gallery in a bus.

Continuing Travelling Gallery’s 2025 programme is a group exhibition exploring ways to connect with our worlds through other-than-human perspectives. Challenging the boundaries between culture and nature, the exhibition looks to destabilise colonial systems, categories, and hierarchies, that tend to favour scientific theory and marginalise ancestral knowledges and indigenous cosmologies.

Curated with Jelena Sofronijevic, and featuring work by artists Emii Alrai, Iman Datoo, Remi Jabłecki, Radovan Kraguly, Zeljko Kujundzic, Leo Robinson, and Amba Sayal-Bennett, the exhibition brings together a variety of contemporary artistic practices, including drawing, printmaking, sculpture and film, that reimagine our collective understandings and visions of places and times.

Common across the works in the exhibition is the use of the seed as a means to think about and connect themes concerning ecologies, environments, and migration. For some, the seed represents a world of its own, a self-contained body or cell, capable of crossing borders. For others, it serves as a starting point for alternative possibilities and ways of being.

The exhibition also includes a newly commissioned essay, How does a tree fit inside a seed?, exploring the artists’ works, both individually, and as constellated in the exhibition. Through these connections – some grounded, some imagined – curator Jelena Sofronijevic investigates the languages of ‘othering’.

Artists Exhibiting are:
Emil Alrai, Iman Datoo, Remi Jabłecki, Radovan Kraguly, Zeljko Kujundzic, Leo Robinson and Amba Sayal-Bennett
Artist Biographies
Emii Alrai (b. 1993, Blackpool, UK) is an artist and trained museum registrar. Solo exhibitions include Towner Eastbourne (2025); Compton Verney, Warwickshire (2025); Quench Gallery, Margate (2024); The Hepworth Wakefield & iniva, London (2022); and Workplace Foundation, Newcastle (2022). Alrai has also exhibited in group exhibitions at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2025); Bold Tendencies, London (2025); Leeds Art Gallery (2024-2025); CCA Glasgow (2024); Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati (2023); and Maximillian William, London (2022).

Iman Datoo (b. 1995, Mombasa, Kenya) is a multidisciplinary artist based in South Devon. Her work has been exhibited at Grays Wharf Gallery, Penryn (2024); Southcombe Barn, Dartmoor (2024); KARST, Plymouth (2023); The Plumb, Toronto (2023); and Drugo More Gallery, Rijeka (2021). She has led workshops and performances at Newlyn Art Gallery, the Natural History Museum, Cambridge University, and Tate Britain. London. Datoo was Artist-in-Residence at the Eden Project and University of Exeter (2023), and is the 2025 Stonecroft Artist-in-Residence at Queen’s University Biological Field Station, Canada.

Remi Jablecki (b. 1996, Zielona Góra, Poland) works with painting, sculpture and installation. Based in Edinburgh, they graduated with an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from Edinburgh College of Art in 2024. His works have been exhibited recently at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, Saatchi Gallery in London, Hidden Door Festival, and the Anatomical Museum at the University of Edinburgh.

Welsh artist Radovan Kraguly (1935-2022, Veliko Palančište, near Prijedor, now Bosnia) was born in the former Yugoslavia. He studied in Belgrade, and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. Following his first solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London in 1965, he was given 47 solo exhibitions and participated in over 400 group exhibitions.

Zeljko Kujundzic (1920-2003, Subotica, now Serbia) worked across painting, printing, ceramics, sculpture, and in education. A fifth-generation craftsman of Turkish descent, he pursued education in Dalmatia, Yugoslavia, at the Royal College of Art in Budapest, Hungary, and in Venice, Italy. After World War II, he lived and worked in Scotland (1948-1958), then Canada and North America. He helped establish the Nelson School of Fine Arts, later the Kootenay School of Art, and produced a number of public art commissions in British Columbia (BC), where he is well-known, widely exhibited and collected, and remembered.

Leo Robinson (b. 1994, Newcastle-under-Lyme, UK) is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician based in London. He graduated from the Manchester School of Art in 2016. Recent exhibitions include London Mithraeum, Bloomberg SPACE, London (2024); Tiwani Contemporary, London (2024); Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow (2023); Indigo+Madder, London (2023); Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales (2022); and KU Leuven, Belgium (2021).

Amba Sayal-Bennett (b. 1991, London, UK) is a British-Indian artist working across drawing, projection, and sculptural installation. Recent exhibitions include Drawing Room, London (2025); Indigo+Madder, London (2025); Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2024); Somerset House, London (2022); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2022); and White Cube, London (2021).

Jelena Sofronijevic is a producer, curator, writer, and researcher, working at the intersections of cultural history, politics, and the arts. Their independent curatorial projects include Invasion Ecology (2024), and they produce EMPIRE LINES, a podcast which uncovers the unexpected flows of empires through art. They are currently pursuing a PhD with Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen curating exhibitions of Balkan and Yugoslavian/diasporic artists in British art collections. To find out more, follow @empirelinespodcast on Instagram.