Acme Studios is a London-based charity, formed by artists in 1972, which supports the development of fine art practice by providing artists with affordable studio and living space. Acme provides 552 studio units, runs work/live and studio residency schemes and manages an international residencies programme for visiting artists. Acme is recognised as the leading studio development organisation in England and has helped more than 5,000 artists with this fundamental means of support. Acme Studios is funded by Arts Council England.
Acme continues to build on its success in creating a permanent and sustainable network of affordable, accessible, professionally-managed and high quality studios for artists in London.
In addition to the provision of studio and living space, Acme has taken a leading role in helping develop the affordable studio sector in England. In recent years it has been working nationally with other studio organisations and Arts Council England and in London has led on Capital Studios, an advocacy programme on behalf of affordable studio providers in the capital.
Acme provides an advisory service on studio provision to a wide range of organisations and individuals including funding bodies, local government, other studio organisations, development agencies and artists.

Quick facts
546 studios in 14 studio blocks across Greater London at inclusive rent levels of between £8.67 and £13.77 per square foot per year, with an average of £10.85 per square foot per year.
Six studios at Breageside Net Loft, Porthleven in Cornwall.
12 work/live residencies at low rents for five years including a two-and-a-half year bursary with free work/live space and bursary of £5,000 a year at Acme's fully accessible Fire Station building in E14.
Four work/live units at High House Artists' Studios in Thurrock.
Two alternating commemorative annual studio awards for Acme tenants worth £10,000 each, the Rita Harris Studio Award and the Jessica Wilkes Award.
A 12-month Stephen Cripps' Studio Award at High House Artists' Studios, Thurrock with a rent-free studio, £10,000 bursary and £10,000 towards production costs.
An 18-month Hackney Studio Residency at Matchmakers Wharf, E9 with a rent-free studio and a £10,000 bursary.
Six awards for art college graduates each providing a bursary and rent-free studio. Four at Childers Street, SE8: Adrian Carruthers Award, Camberwell Studio Award, Chadwell Award and Chelsea Studio Award. Two at Warton House, E15: Goldsmiths Studio Award and the Helen Scott Lidgett Award (Central St Martins).
A large purpose-built studio at the Glassyard Building offered at half-rent for selected recent graduates from Central Saint Martins as well as monthly studio seminars and studio visits.
Five units of living accommodation.
An International Residencies Programme for eight cultural agencies from Australia, Canada (two), Germany, Sweden and Switzerland (three).
An Associate Artist Residency programme for international artists open to artists working in all disciplines and resident in any country outside of England.
A waiting list of artists seeking non-residential studios in London.
A nationwide, free advisory service to artists covering all aspects of property negotiation, conversion and management.
Acme Project Space, which provides an opportunity for those artists who are part of our Residency & Awards Programme and our International Residencies Programme with a public space within which to develop projects, show new work and engage in a critical dialogue with a wider audience.
Space for an important publicly-funded gallery: Matt's Gallery