Associate Artist Residency

Since 1987 Acme Studios's International Residencies Programme has enabled governments, cultural agencies, foundations and businesses to offer individuals major work/live residencies in London.

In response to increasing requests from artists we created a new residency programme, called the Associate Artist Residency (AAR). AAR operates alongside our current international residency programme and allows artists to apply directly to Acme for London residency opportunities.

Associate Artist Residencies are tailored to suit the networking needs of international artists, allowing them to research, develop relationships and focus on their work in a supported environment. The programme is open to artists working in all disciplines and resident in any country outside of England. Residencies can be developed around a particular project or conceived of as networking and contacts focused for one, two or three months.

Further details about the programme and an application form are available to download from the 'Further Reading' panel on the right hand side of this page.

Artists please note: Applications which are incomplete or that have not been submitted on the Acme application form will not be accepted.

Vishwa Shroff (India)

14 December 2011 - 14 March 2012

Vishwa Shroff has a multifaceted practice. Working primarily from diaries and sketchbooks, she constantly observes her environment, often focusing on the mundane and trivial to explore the idiosyncrasies that are particular to each environment she inhabits. Her drawings and writings reveal stories of her everyday encounters of life with an edge of fun and absurdity.

A geographical magpie, Vishwa has previously studied art in India and the United Kingdom (where she also trained as a Cordon Bleu chef), lived in the United States of America and participated in artistic residencies in India, Japan and France.

During her time in London, Vishwa explored London's nooks and crannies, our way of life and the peculiarities of our language. Her residency culminated in an exhibition at the Acme Project Space from 1-11 March 2012.

Keith H. Doyle and Evann Siebens (Canada)

3 May 2011 - 27 May 2011

Although both artists have individual practices their residency in London concerned their collaborative film work. A former dancer and dance filmmaker Evann is a media artist, concerned with translating three-dimensional movement to the screen while Keith’s sculptural and design approach is concerned with capitalising on associative meaning in images and design objects. Recent collaborative projects include; 'containR' – a mobile film festival housed in two stacked, customised shipping containers as part of Vancouver’s 2009 Winter Olympics Cultural Olympiad and 'IcarusCar' a collaborative 3-channel media sculptural installation which explores the myth of Icarus and Molt Taylor’s flying Aerocar.

The focus of this residency was to meet peers, curators and fellow artists to discuss media art developments, to locate the artists' practice within a London context and research for future projects. During the residency the artists exhibited 'IcarusCar' at Hotshoe Gallery, London EC1N.