Affordable Artists' Studios to Rent

Acme provides affordable non-residential studio space for fine artists who are unable to afford to rent workspace on the open market. The average cost of an Acme studio is £10.13 per sq ft / £109 per sq m per year, which works out at £168 per month for a 200 sq ft (19 sq m) studio. The rent for an Acme studio is on average one third of that charged for physically comparable workspace available commercially.*

Acme is committed to ensuring that as many of our studio buildings as possible are physically accessible to users and the public. We are also committed to making adaptations to studios, wherever practicable, to meet the needs of artists with particular disabilities. When allocating studio space we reserve the right to give priority to disabled artists.

Acme's studio buildings

The map on the right shows the location of Acme's studio buildings in London. Click on the studios below or in the toolbar above for more information about each building:

Carlew House, SE27 - Lambeth
Childers Street, SE8 - Lewisham
Copperfield Road, E3 - Tower Hamlets
Fire Station, E14 - Tower Hamlets
Galleria, SE15 - Southwark
Harrow Road, NW10 - Brent
Leven Road, E14 - Tower Hamlets
Matchmakers Wharf, E9 - Hackney (available from June 2012)
Oaks Park, SM7 - Sutton
Orsman Road, N1 - Hackney
Robinson Road, E2 - Tower Hamlets
Rowse Close, E15 - Newham
Warton House, E15 - Newham (available from October 2012)

In addition to its London studios, Acme manages six studios at the Breageside Net Loft in Cornwall.

Acme currently manages over 430 individual non-residential studio units across 12 sites, 11 in London and one in Cornwall. The sites and the buildings vary in size - there are 132 studios in our Childers Street building and 12 at Harrow Road. Six sites are owned by Acme and are therefore permanent, the others are held on leases which are mostly long term. The majority of our studios are self-contained and the average size is 372 square feet (35 square metres).

We have a number of new studio projects in development and are expanding in response to the huge demand for affordable, permanent, high-quality and accessible artists' studio space.

Contact

If you have any questions about our waiting list or allocation policy, please contact:

Jemima Brown, Heather Deedman or Calum F Kerr
Acme Studios
44 Copperfield Road,
Bow, London, E3 4RR
T 020 8981 6811
F 020 8983 0567
E mail@acme.org.uk

*See Commercial Workspace Provision for Visual Artists in 'Further Reading'.