Acme Studios, supporting art and artists since 1972

Residencies, 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. The Sugar House Work/Live provides space for eight artists who were also selected from a national submission. Both these programmes are currently closed to new submissions.

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 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). The Adrian Carruthers Studio Award is open to graduating students from the MA course at the Slade School of Art. 

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

Workshop in Tower Hamlets Residency Studio at Leven Road. Photo: Greg Goodale (2009)
‘Artists have an essential role in neighbourhood renewal; creating a sense of value, pride and distinctiveness.’

Chris Murray, Director of Learning and Development, CABE, Creating Places conference, Tate Modern (2003)

News

Artists selected for Fire Station Work/Live Programme Four (2010-2015) announced

Artists selected for Fire Station Work/Live Programme Four (2010-2015) announced

Acme Studios’ residency programme at our converted Fire Station building in Poplar, London E14 is one of the most supportive schemes for professional artists in the UK... 09.02.2010

WASPS artist at the Fire Station

WASPS artist at the Fire Station

Acme Studios and the major artists' studios provider in Scotland, WASPS have been looking at ways they can work in partnership to directly benefit artists... 05.01.2010

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CLICK TO ENLARGE 'Nightscapes' Nueva Generacion at the South London Gallery. Photo: Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre (2008)

CLICK TO ENLARGE Matt Templeton in the Adrian Carruthers Studio, Childers Street, SE8. Photo: Acme Studios (2003)