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Major boost for long-running award for graduate artists

26.01.2012

Acme Studios is delighted to announce that a major donation has secured the future of the Adrian Carruthers Award.

Initiators and long-time supporters of the award, Sir Colin Lucas and Mary Louise Hume (step-father and mother of Adrian Carruthers), have made a significant donation to which The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has provided a matching gift. This significantly increases the fund which has been secured to date. Acme Studios is committed to making this valuable award an enduring one, and these generous contributions will mean that the award’s future is assured for the foreseeable future.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the award which was created by friends and family in memory of artist Adrian Carruthers, a former Acme tenant and graduate of the Slade School of Art, who died in October 2001 at the age of 40. The current recipient of the Adrian Carruthers Award is sculptor Luke McCreadie.

The annual award provides a selected student from the Slade School of Art, University College London with a £5,000 bursary and a large, purpose-designed studio rent-free for a year. To date 15 artists have benefited from this award which has provided a successful model for other graduate awards. Acme currently provides awards for four graduates at its Childers Street building in Deptford, each with a cash bursary and rent-free studio space.

The Adrian Carruthers Award froms part of Acme's Residency, Awards and Community Programme.

'Dead Metaphor' at the Acme Project Space

11.01.2012

A new exhibition at the Acme Project Space consisting of a series of silk hangings that have been dyed and painted, their subject matter ranging from loom threads to early computer punch-cards to women modelling soviet silk couture. Artist Helen Johnson explains the title of her exhibition, ‘The dead metaphor is not something that has ceased to be, but something that has been rendered invisible through continuous use - taken as read, as with the outcomes of industrialisation.’

Helen is in London on a three-month Australia Council for the Arts residency managed by Acme Studios.

The exhibition runs from Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 January from 1pm to 6pm, with a private view on Wednesday 25 January from 6pm to 8pm.