Residency, Awards & Community Programme

Acme Studios adds to its core activity of providing artists with affordable and secure non-residential studio space through a range of programmes which include work/live and studio bursary and residency schemes. These programmes are some of the most directly supportive for artists anywhere in the UK.

The Fire Station Work/Live residencies run for five years or two-and-a-half years for a bursary supported residency. 

Acme runs two artist studio residency schemes for London-based artists at our new-build studios: the Southwark Studio Residency at the Galleria and the Tower Hamlets Studio Residency at Leven Road. These provide a selected artist whose work naturally engages the local community with a rent-free studio and grant.

All Acme tenants are eligible for the annual Jessica Wilkes Award which provides a free studio for a year and a grant (together worth £10,000).

Acme runs four awards for art college graduates at our Childers Street studios: the Adrian Carruthers Studio Award is open to graduating students from the MA course at the Slade School of Art; the Camberwell Studio Award and the Chelsea Studio Award are open to graduating BA Fine Art students from the respective colleges; and the Chadwell Award is awarded to MA graduates from different colleges each year.

The Bow Cross Artist Residency is run in partnership with the Swan Foundation which provides an artist in Tower Hamlets with a bursary and project costs.

Contact

For more information about the programme or to discuss establishing a new programme, please contact:

Julia Lancaster, Residency and Projects Manager
Acme Studios
44 Copperfield Road,
Bow, London, E3 4RR
T 020 8981 6811
F 020 8983 0567
E mail@acme.org.uk