Artists’ Studios
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.¹Acme currently manages 370 individual non-residential studio units across 10 sites, nine 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 13 at Carlew House. Four 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.
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.
KEY TO MAP LOCATIONS:
The map shows the location of eight of our studio sites in east, south-east and south London and The Sugar House (4), which has eight work/live units. The Fire Station (6) has 12 work/live units and six studios. Our other two buildings (not shown) are The Old Stable Block, Oaks Park, in the London Borough of Sutton and Breageside Net Loft on the Quayside in Porthleven, Cornwall.
- 15 & 33 ORSMAN ROAD, HACKNEY N1
- 15 ROBINSON ROAD, BETHNAL GREEN E2
- 1 & 3A ROWSE CLOSE, STRATFORD E15
- THE SUGAR HOUSE, STRATFORD E15
- 42/44 COPPERFIELD ROAD, BOW E3
- THE FIRE STATION, GILLENDER STREET, POPLAR E14
- THE GALLERIA, PENNACK ROAD, PECKHAM SE15
- CHILDERS STREET, DEPTFORD SE8
- CARLEW HOUSE, EAST PLACE, WEST NORWOOD SE27
See Publications: 5. Commercial workspace provision for visual artists - a comparison with the affordable sector, Michael Cubey, Acme and Capital Studios, February 2006