Spaces

FREE space for artists, performers, musicians, curators and arts producers

Outer Spaces supports artists through our own programmes and by making space available for artists to use as temporary studio and project space. We often work in partnership with other organisations, and we can support collectives and groups with their own programme aims if we have suitable space available.

We take on leases for empty commercial property across Scotland and make it available for artists to use for free while landlords are planning redevelopments or new uses. Artists can use our properties as temporary studio and project spaces, and we support the national network with selected residencies, commissions and public exhibition opportunities.

Our spaces our self-managed and are offered on the understanding that they could be let to a commercial tenant at any time. We provide a minimum of 7 days’ notice to vacate and expect the spaces to be left in the same condition as we found them.

Find out more about us here.

From December 2022 to April 2024, Outer Spaces occupied the former Marks & Spencer store on Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow as a space for research, production and presentation for over 90 artists. We caught up with some of the resident studio artists to talk about their time in the building.