Jamie Fitzpatrick, Co-Commission at Kunsthall Trondheim

Press Release March 2026

Edinburgh-based artist Jamie Fitzpatrick to present new exhibition National Theatre at Kunsthall Trondheim, with new works co-commissioned by Outer Spaces

Long standing member of the Outer Spaces network creating new painted, theatrical landscapes to be displayed with new sculpture at solo show in Norway this Summer, marking the artists first presentation in Scandinavia.

Opening on 4 June and running until 27 September 2026, is a new solo exhibition from Edinburgh-based artist Jamie Fitzpatrick, presented by Kunsthall Tronheim, National Theatre. Featuring a new body of ambitious sculptural work, installed alongside sound and, co-commissioned with Outer Spaces, painted theatrical landscape sets.

Jamie Fitzpatrick, Outer Spaces studio, Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. Photo: Sally Jubb

Fitzpatrick’s newly-commissioned works will bring together an examination of the historical and political motivations behind statuary and landscape painting as expressions of power and land oppression, with an exploration of subjective relationships towards ethnonationalism, parenting and hereditary ties to place, weaponised visions of Arcadia and the glorification of historical figures that fight off foreign or supernatural threats. Outer Spaces co-commissioned theatrical landscape paintings, inspired by AI-generated renderings of preservationist rhetoric, will provide a backdrop for the artist’s sardonic monumental sculptures. The spoken audio, music and animatronics will allow the artists’ sculptural work to ‘speak’, ‘sing’ and ‘argue’ with the audience. Addressing power structures of the past, present and future, the exhibition will encourage trespass, transgression and agency through tactile engagement. 

A long-standing member of the Outer Spaces studio network, Fitzpatrick previously presented Crème Fraiche Amygdala Hummmm as part of the 2025 Bank Commissions, where three artists presented new work commissioned by Outer Spaces in Glasgow’s former Clydesdale Banking Hall, an iconic building which continues to be used as meanwhile studio space.

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