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 rent for an Acme studio is on average one third of that charged for physically comparable workspace available commercially.*

Acme currently manages over 400 individual non-residential studio units across 11 sites, ten in London and one in Cornwall. The sites and the buildings they contain vary in size - there are over 100 studios in our Childers Street building and 12 at Harrow Road. Five 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 400 square feet / 37 square metres.

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 artists with disabilities.

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.

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:

1.   Carlew House - Lambeth
2.   Childers Street - Lewisham
3.   Copperfield Road - Tower Hamlets
4.   Fire Station - Tower Hamlets
5.   Galleria - Southwark
6.   Harrow Road (opens 2010) - Brent
7.   Leven Road - Tower Hamlets
8.   Oaks Park - Sutton
9.   Orsman Road - Hackney
10. Robinson Road - Tower Hamlets
11. Rowse Close - Newham
12. Sugar House (work/live only) - Newham

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

Contact

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

Calum F Kerr, Jemima Brown or Heather Deedman
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 of Visual Artists in 'Further Reading'.