Residency & Awards 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. 

The Hackney Studio Residency at our new-build studios at Matchmakers Wharf, provides a selected artist whose work naturally engages the local community with a rent-free studio and grant.

The Stephen Cripps' Studio Award is for artists whose practice is based in sculpture which embraces elements of light, movement, machinery, sound or performance and is based at High House Artists' Studios.

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.

A further two awards for art college graduates are housed at our Warton House studios: the Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art Studio Award and the Helen Scott Lidgett Studio Award for MA graduates from Central Saint Martins.

We also run the Recent Graduate Studio Programme for Central Saint Martins BA Fine Art graduates.

One-off projects and residencies which have come to an end can be found on our Previous Projects page. 

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