Studios for Artists: Concepts and Concrete: Concepts and Concrete, A Collaboration Between Acme Studios and Central Saint Martins - Tapa blanda

The form, function and future of the artist?s studio is the central focus of the collaboration and of this publication. The subject of studio provision is approached from the partners? different but entirely complementary roles and perspectives, as is their shared commitment to creating new models of support for students after graduation. Studios for Artists presents, through a series of written and visual essays, how the partners formalized and intensified their work, resulting in amongst other initiatives, the design and construction of an award-winning studio building and the establishment of a sustainable graduate studio program. Including a photo?essay by Hugo Glendinning, the book provides a remarkable insight into the world of art education and the artist in London at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It reveals not just the ongoing challenges faced by art education, but also the threat to affordable studio provision where spiraling property prices threaten this vital, but generally unacknowledged, part of the contemporary visual arts ecology.

Graham Ellard is an artist and Professor of Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, where he has held a full-time position since 1998. As an artist he has collaborated with Stephen Johnstone since 1993. Their work, in large-scale video and 16mm film installations concerned with the intersections and overlaps between architecture and cinema, has been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally.

Jonathan Harvey is Chief Executive of Acme Studios, which he founded with David Panton in 1972. Trained as an artist, he ran The Acme Gallery (1976-81) and co-founded TSW-Television South West where he worked as their Arts Consultant (1982-92). He was Chairman of Arnolfini, Bristol (1993-2006), and a founding trustee of the National Federation of Artists’ Studios Providers (2006-2011). He was awarded an OBE in the New Year 2014 Honours List for services to the arts.

Dr Arantxa Echarte is an artist and Research Consultant. She specializes in research methods and transference of knowledge in contemporary art and at present she is Research Officer at Acme studios. Her practice investigates ideas of participation and ethnomethodology. She has exhibited work and published internationally.