Aberdeen’s Outer Spaces project is showing IN OUR SPACES – an exhibition of newly-commissioned work based on workshops with local communities, by visual artists Lauren McLaughlin, Maria Muruaga and Kirsty Russell. The three socially-engaged Aberdeen-based artists are displaying, inside and outside a formerly-disused building in the city’s Shiprow, the results of community-engagement workshops over 6 months.

The event is an example of Outer Spaces’ work in Scotland’s cultural regeneration, supporting artists by offering free spaces across the country. Since 2021 the enterprise has worked to put vacant and disused spaces across Scotland to use as sites of research and experimentation: it currently offers free space to 88 artists across 20 properties in Aberdeen alone, and this event supports Karen, Maria and Kirsty’s professional development alongside the development of the communities they work with.