Outer Spaces presents a bold programme of newly commissioned works by artists Sooun Kim, Greer Pester, and Jamie Fitzpatrick. Selected from the Outer Spaces network of studio holders, this is a unique opportunity for the artists to make new, ambitious work in response to one of our most historic spaces.
Responding to the former Clydesdale banking hall at 30 St Vincent Place, Glasgow, these works explore the building’s symbolic relationship to power, stability, and prosperity—qualities embedded in the fabric of this iconic Victorian structure. At the same time, the artists engage with the building’s current, transitory state, where past and present converge.
Having secured a temporary lease for 30-31 St Vincent Place in late 2024, artists from the Outer Spaces network were invited to submit proposals for the programme. The commissions offer an exceptional opportunity for the selected artists to present new works at a pivotal moment in their careers. While other parts of the building house a dynamic community of artists and creatives, the opulent banking hall serves as the ideal setting for these commissions—each one adding a layer of dialogue to the space’s ongoing evolution.
As a key landmark of Victorian architecture, the banking hall reflects the social and economic aspirations of its era. With its grand design and historical significance, it stands as a testament to the ambitions of its time. Now, as the space undergoes a new chapter and our artists have moved in to occupy the building, the hall plays host to a new kind of transformation: a programme of visual art commissions that respond directly to the building’s complex legacy.
The works will be revealed to the public through a series of pop-up events throughout the spring of 2025, offering a dynamic exploration of the site’s rich history and its shifting role in the present.
Outer Spaces Bank Commissions
Location
Outer Spaces, 30 St Vincent Place, Glasgow, G1 2HL
Please note: Access to the building is limited so please arrive promptly at the time of your booking.
Access
Please note, there is no step free access to the building. There are two flights of steps into the exhibition space. To arrange access via the artist's entrance (with one flight of steps) please contact us at info@outerspaces.org in advance of your visit.
Unfortunately there are no public toilets available in the building. The nearest facilities can be found a few minutes away at Glasgow Queen Street station, North Hanover Street, George Square, Glasgow, G1 2AF
Resilient Chandelier
Sooun Kim
Saturday 29th March - Wednesday 2nd April 2025
Saturday - Wednesday:
Free one hour visits
6pm - 7pm / 7pm - 8pm
Mother Clyde
Greer Pester
Saturday 3rd May - Wednesday 7th May 2025
Saturday, Sunday & Wednesday:
Free one hour visits between 11am & 4pm
Monday & Tuesday:
Free one hour visits between 11am & 1pm
Crème Fraiche Amygdala Hummmm
Jamie Fitzpatrick
Saturday 31st May - Wednesday 4th June 2025
Saturday, Sunday & Wednesday:
Free one hour visits between 11am & 4pm
Monday & Tuesday:
Free one hour visits between 11am & 1pm
Resilient Chandelier, Sooun Kim
Sooun Kim, a multidisciplinary artist and Korean immigrant in Scotland, explores cultural hybridity, displacement, and post-colonial memory. His forthcoming commission, Resilient Chandelier, will reimagine a chandelier as a spectral symbol of resilience, intertwining history, mythology, and personal migration. Through immersive 3D animation, the work will challenge oppressive power structures, revealing how identity is reshaped through ongoing adaptation, transformation, and resilience. The chandelier drifts cultural landscapes across diverse times and spaces, seeking to absorb and reflect the ever-fluid forces of identity.
Sooun Kim's Echoes, 2023 will be shown alongside the newly commissioned work.
Image: Sooun Kim, Born Beneath, 2021, film still.
The artist graduated from MA Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art in 2020. His work has been shown in various screenings, solo shows, two-person and group shows, notably at: Echoes 2024 (solo) Patricia Fleming Gallery, Ramifying Frost 2023 (solo) Goethe Institut Glasgow, ArtReview, NOWNESS ASIA, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, CCA Glasgow, the Korean Embassy Cultural Centre in Berlin & London, Piccadilly Lights. He was the recipient of the inaugural Outer SpacesScotland RSA Award in 2024. Selected from the 198th RSA Annual Exhibition by Outer Spaces, the artist was awarded a large-scale studio space, together with £1000 bursary.
Mother Clyde, Greer Pester
For this work Greer Pester draws inspiration from the bust of "Father Clyde," an emblem of prosperity placed above the entrance to Glasgow's oldest bank in the 1800s. The title of the commission, Mother Clyde, offers a counterpoint to the traditional myth of the river as a provider of material wealth. Instead, Mother Clyde invokes a new imagined deity that embodies the feminine power of the river, challenging the capitalist ideals upheld by the original bank. This reimagined mythology critiques the ongoing environmental toll of material wealth, envisioning a sacred space for slowing down, reflecting, and embracing the river’s roles of fragility, resilience, and renewal.
Greer Pester is a Glaswegian visual and social artist whose multidisciplinary practice is deeply rooted in community and social engagement. Pester’s diverse practice spans cut-outs, collage, inflatable and textile sculpture, painting, drawing, and installation. Her approach is deeply
Image: Greer Pester, Cuddle Puddle at Sensory Glisk, in collaboration
with artist Salima Punjani, 2022. Credit, Augustina Isidori.
informed by her role as a social artist, where she works with community groups and in art education settings to engage with a range of societal issues and themes.
Throughout her career, Pester has participated in artist residencies in the UK, Mexico, and Senegal, each enriching her practice with new cultural and social perspectives. Currently, she is delivering projects for the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh as part of their Creative Connections programme, as well as leading storytelling and creative evaluation workshops with The Village Storytelling Centre in Pollok.
Crème Fraiche Amygdala Hummmm, Jamie Fitzpatrick
Jamie Fitzpatrick will create a new monumental figure for the space that draws its influence from the architectural authority of the central hall and the surrounding buildings. He will also exhibit wall-based work for the first time, again, drawing influence from the decorative sculptural motifs of the building and their use of mythological and classical narratives to reinforce and legitimise the authority of capitalist economic and social structures.
Fitzpatrick's practice encompasses sculptural installations, performance, drawing & moving image, frequently structured around the narratives and visual rhetoric behind images of authority.
The artist has had solo presentations with VITRINE Gallery, Deborah Bowman (Brussels) in, Phoenix Gallery (Exeter) and VITRINEBasel. He has been included in group shows at City Art Centre Edinburgh, Camden Arts Centre, SPACE, ICA London, the Bluecoat Liverpool, The Royal Scottish Academy, Saatchi Gallery and the Museum of Sheffield as well as internationally in New York, Los Angeles, Basel, Brussels, Lisbon, Kyiv, Turin and Prague.
Since graduating in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 2015, he has received several awards, including XL Catlin People’s Choice Award, Saatchi UK/Raine Sculpture Award and the LANDsecurities Show Award. He was selected in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2015 and 2016.
Image: Jamie Fitzpatrick, Your Wives are at Home Having Sex with
Bart Simpson and Burt Reynolds.
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