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Associate Studio Programme 11 : Ellen Greig

Mar 2026
For this session, we decided to take a slightly different approach. Rather than presenting our work individually, we each introduced ourselves and our interests; we then brought forward a set of shared questions around how to initiate and sustain community-based projects. From there, the conversation developed around Ellen’s trajectory and her experience of building a career as a curator. We also discussed the structure of PEER, its funding and commissioning models, and its relationships with other galleries and institutions. This format allowed everyone present to establish a connection with an important curatorial figure such as Ellen, without the pressure of presenting or pitching individual work. Instead, it created space for a conversation around developing projects, planning, and testing ideas, including reflecting on whether institutional More...

Associate Studio Programme 11 : Maggie Matic

Feb 2026
In February, Maggie Matić visited the Associate Studio Programme 11. Matić is a researcher and curator engaged in contemporary visual feminist cultures, queer and crip theory, and in supporting and creating space for the development of artists. During the visit, we spoke about the role of the curator, what creating the arc of an artist’s career can look like, the function of not-for-profit organisations, and the ways artists can be affiliated with and supported to make work. We also reflected on how artists create and find development opportunities, and the value of collaboration and care in sustaining practice. More...

Associate Studio Programme 11 : Josephine Baker

Oct 2025
On Thursday, 2nd October, Josephine Baker visited the Associate Studio Programme 11 in Stockwell. The last time Josephine had been in this studio space was around 15 years prior, when her peers were on this programme. In this time, she has completed her studies at the Royal Academy Schools (2014–2017) continued working as an artist and exhibited extensively and internationally (Beijing, Munich, London, Berlin, Rome etc.) Baker is an Artist, Associate Lecturer (and gardener) who only seriously started making sculpture some time More...

Associate Studio Programme 10 : Gemma Rolls Bentley

Sep 2025
Gemma’s visit was a valuable insight into her multifaceted curatorial career; from writing books to developing cultural strategy and curating exhibitions. We discussed the importance of agency as artists in the curation process, and learned the non-negotiables and values that steer Gemma in her work. The visit came in the midst of our show ‘Over and out’, marking the end of our time on ASP. We each gave Gemma some context to our work, and discussed the motivations and intentions in our practices. Her questions prompted us to reflect on our time on the ASP, as well think about how we want to position More...

Associate Studio Programme 11 : Agnes Questionmark

May 2025
In May we had a studio visit from artist Agnes Questionmark in the Stockwell studio. Agnes is an artist who like the associates came from UAL and has now gone on to exhibit and perform internationally. This was a really exciting visit for us, getting a chance to talk to someone who has come from the same university as us and gone on to do amazing things. This visit was made up of a smaller amount of the Associates so we focused on more in depth crit style conversations. This led us to get stuck into smaller details than we would normally which was very useful. We looked back on previous More...

Associate Studio Programme 11 : Hew Locke

May 2025
Hew Locke came to visit on Friday and he was wonderful to speak to, everyone in the cohort enjoyed the visit as we discussed navigating the art world in today’s market, from building professional relationships with curators and artists to pricing work and what’s the best attitude to approach your career. He was insightful in how to make our practice sustainable in terms of practicality when making the work, its materials and its purpose. More...

Associate Studio Programme 11 : Daria Blum

Apr 2025
In mid April we had a studio visit from Artist Daria Blum in the Stockwell studio. The visit was prompted by a personal interest in her work and an interest in prompting a detailed conversation about performance within the group which includes performance artists, non-performance artists and people in between. I also thought it would valuable for us to hear from someone who had been part of the ASP and was now working as an artist. Daria talked about both her performance and installations, More...

Associate Studio Programme 11 : Stockwell

Dec 2024
In November a panel including Alex Schady (Programme Director, Art, CSM), Alex Clarke (Studio Tutor, BA Fine Art, CSM), Elizabeth Peebles (Year Three Leader BA Fine Art, Chelsea), Katie Forster (Artists’ Liaison, Acme Studios) and Associate Jen Jones interviewed the shortlisted candidates from an open call to select the group of 2023 and 2024 CSM, Chelsea and Camberwell BA Fine Art graduates to form the 2024 Associate Studio Programme and take their place in the shared studios at the Highline Building, Elephant & Castle, until October 2026. More...

Associate Studio Programme 10 : Hannah Perry

Dec 2024
The visit was extremely insightful, and comforting in terms of ways to navigate the art world further. Hearing feedback from someone outside my usual circle offered new perspectives and gave me plenty of ideas to pursue. Knowing there’s an opportunity to continue the dialogue makes the experience all the more valuable! Thank you Hannah! More...

Associate Studio Programme 11 : Stockwell

Aug 2024
The Associate Studio Programme is now open to applications for the next group to move into the Stockwell studio, to form ASP 11. Applications are now invited from 2023 and 2024 graduates from CSM, Chelsea and Camberwell’s BA Fine Art courses, to occupy the studio from December 2024 to October 2026. The Associate Studio Programme provides a supportive environment to develop your practice – to make and show art in whatever form – without simply extending the ‘comfort zone’ of the college experience. The emphasis is on the creation of a mixed but cooperative community of emerging artists, More...

Associate Studio Programme 9 : Vanessa Jackson

Jul 2024
Vanessa Jackson brought to the studio the knowledge and experience developed during her extended career as both an artist and a teacher. The rigour and dedication of a body of work centred on a form of geometric abstraction pursued over many years provided our conversations with a wealth of examples and insight. Vanessa was extremely generous in her discussion of our work, without lacking in critical enquiry or challenging questions. In an intense and highly focussed evening we all gained a great deal from Vanessa’s visit. More...

Associate Studio Programme 10 : Jade Montserrat

Jul 2024
We decided to approach the Jade’s studio visit more fluidly than previous studio visits. I took her to the studio spaces to look at everyone’s work, this approach was intended to give Jade the opportunity to inquire about any pieces of work which caught her eye. She took a particular liking to Gem’s practice and the two of them had a fruitful conversation prior to everyone’s arrival at the studio. I think it would be fair to say that everyone enjoyed Jade’s studio visit and were appreciative of how open she was about her experiences throughout the evening. Jade shared the influences of her practice, detailing the beginnings More...

Associate Studio Programme 9 : Hector Campbell

Jun 2024
On 28th June 2023, Hector Campbell paid a visit to the ASP 9 studio. He introduced himself, told us about his work and explained how he came to a place where he was able to open his own commercial gallery in Elephant and Castle; Soup gallery. In this gallery he explained that he was conscious of creating a space that exhibited works of a range of mediums rather than simply painting alone, which so many commercial galleries already often spotlight.  Hector is always supporting emerging artists through attending graduate More...

Associate Studio Programme 9 : Georgia Stephenson

Apr 2024
In April we had a studio visit from Georgia Stephenson prior to our studio show. As Georgia is a curator we thought it would be helpful to set up the crit slightly differently, looking at the curation of the show as well as some individual works. Georgia had helpfully put together a presentation with: some shows she’s curated, artists she’s worked with and useful residencies including things like good eye projects and her involvement in collective ending. She stressed the throwing off of shame around her advertising job which More...

Associate Studio Programme 9 : Lindsey Mendick

Mar 2024
On 27th March 2024, ASP 9 had a visit to the studio from Lindsey Mendick. Only half of the group were able to make it, but this made for an intimate and free flowing conversation. Mendick’s raw honesty and willingness to confront social taboos within her own practice meant that no subject was off limits. We discussed the difficult and personal concepts present in our works and Mendick offered genuine advice and support More...

Associate Studio Programme 10 : Prem Sahib

Mar 2024
As our first visitor to the space, not quite knowing what format the evening might take, we were all somewhat nervous about Prem’s visit. The nerves didn’t last long, it ended up being an evening of very interesting discussions. Initially Prem introduced their practice, discussing education at the RA schools, eventually finding good representation through Philida Reid and their various gallery exhibitions. More...

Associate Studio Programme 9 : Jeremy Deller

Feb 2024
The 12th of February was a special day for us at ASP 9 as we had artist Jeremy Deller visit our studio. Many of us are big fans and so a mix of excitement and nerves filled the room as we awaited his arrival. Upon entering, his approachable and candid presence dissipated all tension. We began the evening by gathering around Jeremy on the sofa, firing questions about his life and practice. Jeremy was very open and generous with his responses, giving us insight into how he came to find art, advice on working with the public, his feelings on the state of art schools and much more. It was very useful for us to hear perspectives from such a successful More...

Associate Studio Programme 9 : Stockwell 2022

Sep 2022
The Associate Studio Programme, in partnership with Acme, opened its first studio in the Glassyard Building, in Stockwell, south west London in 2013. The tenure of the current, seventh, group of Associates at the Glassyard studio comes to an end in November 2022. Applications are now being invited from 2021 and 2022 graduates from CSM’s and CCW’s BA Fine Art course, for next round to run from January 2023 to December 2024. The Associate Studio Programme provides a supportive environment More...

Associate Studio Programme 7 : Rozsa Farkas

Jun 2022
Rózsa Farkas made a studio visit to our shared studio home, ASP 7, on 6th June 2022. During the resulting conversations she left no stone unturned as she spoke to us about our works in progress. Many of us had come straight from work for the visit and it took a little while for us to get going. Rózsa, fuelled by a cup of Earl Grey in our best chipped studio mug, was full of the energy and enthusiasm that we all needed. Having both the mindset of an art school grad and a successful gallerist, we had a lot of questions for Rózsa about life after art school More...

Associate Studio Programme 8 : Isaac Lythgoe

May 2022
As we each introduced our processes of making certain points were made in relation to each. In terms of some of these things, I had been thinking about of manufacturing and the man-made, or even perhaps loss of the knowledge or skill of making. Lythgoe posed the question “Have you ever wondered if the world was completely unspoilt and we all as present-day humans were in this unspoilt resource-rich place with all the collective knowledge that we have now, how long it would it take for us to produce an iPhone – to produce the machines, manufacturing techniques and ability to produce industrially?” More...

Associate Studio Programme 7 : Louise Ashcroft

Nov 2021
Our studio visit with Louise focused primarily on interrogating and contextualising the studio dynamic, constructing a series of studio ‘tool boxes’; ie. what skills, materials, etc, did each member of the studio have? We also looked at where our art was located, making lists of places important to our art. Something I found particularly pertinent about our group conversation related to the way we can maintain a sense of momentum as artists. Louise discussed how she likes to perform yearly audits of her work, More...

Associate Studio Programme 7 : Cairo Clarke

Oct 2021
Following our open studio, we welcomed independent curator and writer Cairo Clarke for an in person studio visit. Since our works had been taken down, I sent images of documentation prior where we were able to discuss the show collectively as a whole and the individual works remained anonymous. Cairo’s inquisitive presence was thought provoking and provided a unique opportunity to have an open discussion about our work together in the same room. We sat around a table and exchanged thoughts about the communal space More...

Associate Studio Programme 7 : Melanie King

Sep 2021
For this group of artists that form this edition of the Associate Studio Programme this was our first in-studio Artist visit. Melanie King, an artist based in Ramsgate, came to visit us in our studio in Stockwell on the morning of Friday 10th September. It maybe took me and the fellow ASP artist a little while to get going, probably due to it having been the best part of two years since we had an in-person discussion like this. This was definitely made easier by Melanie More...

Associate Studio Programme 7 : Miriam Austin

May 2021
On Friday evening, we welcomed artist Miriam Austin for our virtual encounter in the studio. After a chance meeting at Austin’s show ‘Andesite’ at Boss and Baum in December 2020, the studio visit was a unique opportunity to reconnect and share some conversations about our practices in further detail. Sam Sockett, Ferghus Doyle and I chose to open a discussion regarding our practices with the group and review the process and intention of the works. We value the attention and care received through Miriam’s thoughtful feedback and for More...

Associate Studio Programme 6 : Borbala Soos

Mar 2021
Having visited the Associates before, Borbála was familiar with the tradition of bringing an object to the space as a way to begin the discussion. This time she brought a giant seashell that has previously served as a starting point for curatorial projects. The theme of using an object as a starting point and perhaps a collaborator informed the discussions, especially when talking about a project centering around the moon by Lucie and myself. We talked about notions of unlearning, and how an object can become a holding space for something. Borbála’s most recent projects have involved working with communities, which also spurred on questions of how our collaboration with Lucie could be opened up to other artists, in forms of celebration, and how the work can be More...

Associate Studio Programme 6 : William Noel Clarke

Jan 2021
In the midst of the third coronavirus lockdown in the UK we welcomed William Noel Clarke (director of VITRINE gallery) for our first digital studio visit. William started the discussion by retelling the tale of how he got to be talking to us; three years ago I included him in a performance event I was organising, then last summer he included me in a digital exhibition he was curating, then I invited him to give us a visit. He used this to illustrate the ways in which opportunities feed into one another and the importance of generosity in sharing networks More...

Associate Studio Programme 7: Stockwell 2020

Sep 2020
The Associate Studio Programme, in partnership with Acme, opened its first studio in the Glassyard Building, in Stockwell, south west London in 2013. The tenure of the current, third, group of Associates at the Glassyard studio comes to an end in November 2020. Although this year the corona virus pandemic has had an impact on the schedule applications for the next programme, running from December 2020 to September 2022, are now being invited from 2019 and 2020 graduates from CSM’s BA Fine Art course, and, for the first time, from CCW’s BA Fine Art course. The Associate Studio Programme provides a supportive environment More...

Associate Studio Programme 5 : Larry Archiampong

Jan 2020
In January 2020, Larry Achiampong visited us in the studio, just after having taken his driving test. He opened his bag and took out the cardboard cover for his 2013 project More Mogya which he describes as an “ongoing project” begun several years earlier that he has yet to go back to since. Initially it was a self portrait, using audio, based on the knowledge that was readily available to him – and was acquired not by means of learning it professionally, but approaching it almost on the go, by watching other people. With Larry we talked about exploring origins and nationality, specifically his relationship to Ghana. He also More...

Associate Studio Programme 6 : Elephant & Castle 2019

Oct 2019
In June a panel including Erika Tan from Central Saint Martins and Calum Kerr from Acme Studios, met to select the group of 2018 and 2019 graduates to form the 2019 programme and take their place this week in the shared studios at the Highline Building, Elephant and Castle until October 2021. We are very pleased to announce the selected artists: Jennifer Elvidge, Lucy McGregor, Carmen Kirkby, Rubie Green, Ava Reynolds, Maria Mahfooz, Adelaida Antúnez, Troy Roswell, Anastasia Alekseeva, Jacob Hulmston, Anaïs Comer, Jonas McIlwain. More...

Associate Studio Programme 6 : Elephant & Castle 2019

May 2019
The second Associate Studio to be developed out of the collaborative project between Double agents and Acme Studios opened in the Highline Building in Elephant & Castle in October 2015 and is now inviting applications for the 2019 round; October 2019-2021. Like the first Studio in Stockwell, established in 2013, the studio operates as a ‘transitional’ space for recent graduates from the BA Fine Art course at Central Saint Martins. Again like the Stockwell Studio it’s housed in a new UAL Hall of Residence. More...

Associate Studio Programme 5 : Kate Squires

Mar 2019
Kate starts the visit by showing us her way of making spontaneous free-standing sculptures. By altering forms through changes in scale, shape and material, she demonstrates her interest in ambiguity and explores the blurriness that exists in reading an object in one or more ways. This leads us to engage in a lively activity, in which each of the artists writes down on a piece of paper what they consider significant to their practice, and then places it down, thus forming a physical map across the studio floor. More...

Associate Studio Programme 5 : Simeon Barclay

Jan 2019
Simeon Barclay came down from Leeds for an evening to discuss both his own practice, and talk through our current lines of inquiry in the studio. Simeon started the evening by describing his beginnings and the roots of his career. As the son of a tailor who had an early education working in metalworking and manufacturing, we talked through the importance of materiality, how the relationship between the two labour roles, of ‘worker’ and ‘artist’, is often seen as a rigid dichotomy and how this influenced his concerns as an artist. The More...

Associate Studio Programme 6 : Stockwell 2018

Oct 2018
In June a panel including Alex Schady, Art Programme Director at CSM and Lottie Leedham from Acme Studios, met to select the group of 2017 and 2018 graduates to form the 2018 Associate Studio Programme and take their place in the shared studios at the Glassyard Building, Stockwell until October 2020. We are very pleased to announce the selected artists: Wes Gilpin, Micheal Taiwo, Thomas Bull, Joseph Nichol, Gillies Adamson Semple, Chi Bagas, Hannah Doucet and Yin Yi Fung.

Associate Studio Programme 3 : Nigel Dunkley

Sep 2018
Nigel Dunkley, who with Grace Schofield, is co-director of the east London gallery, Union Pacific, made a studio visit in September. This was the last studio visit for our group of Associates and was one of the most interesting and exciting. Neil was very generous and from the start engaged with the work presented with real enthusiasm. The discussion generated as he explored our practices, and our artworks, through his questions and observations was lively, critical and stimulating. More...

Associate Studio Programme 4 : Duncan Campbell

Jun 2018
Duncan Campbell visited the studio at the Highline building in June 2018. We began our conversation about Duncan’s current practice through his interest in flip-dot displays, first made prevalent through their use in the Montreal Stock Exchange as a visual representation of the rising and falling of stock values. Duncan was interested in the format of the mechanism as both a visualisation of information which is received and then outputted by the machine, as well as his time spent with a piece of equipment with a complicated yet largely More...

Associate Studio Programme 5 : Stockwell 2018

Apr 2018
The CSM Associate Studio Programme, in partnership with Acme, opened its first studio in the Glassyard Building, in Stockwell, south west London in 2013. The tenure of the current, second, group of Associates at the Glassyard studio comes to an end in September 2018. Applications are now being invited from 2017 and 2018 graduates from CSM’s BA Fine Art for the next programme, running from October 2018-20. The CSM Associate Studio Programme provides a supportive environment without simply extending the ‘comfort zone’ of the college experience. More...

Associate Studio Programme 3 : Borbala Soos

Mar 2018
Borbála’s visit started off with presenting to the group her chosen object that would be left with the studio. The object[s] were a collection of petri dishes containing slime mould – each being at a different stage of development, some were ‘fed’ before their journey to the studio, some left empty for the associates to feed and one that was fed at the beginning of the talk and left in-situ. Whilst discussing the properties of slime mould, ideas emerged around ecological systems in relation to global structures and the wider omnipresent More...

Associate Studio Programme 1 : Carolina Ongaro

Sep 2016
Carolina Ongaro, curator and co-founder of Jupiter Woods, visited the Stockwell studio associates to discuss the ethics of behaviour and code of conduct in the young art world. She began her visit by asking what it means to be taking risks with how you work – as a curator, institution, gallery or project space. What if the opening of an exhibition marked the beginning of an idea and not its end? In her work with Jupiter Woods she spoke about how she strives to build a sustainable, caring and autonomous space for research and experimentation. More...

Associate Studio Programme 1 : Joseph Constable

Sep 2016
Joseph Constable, previously Programme Curator at l’étrangère Gallery, London and Projects Assistant to producer and curator Jacqui Davies, recently took the post of Assistant Curator at the Serpentine Galleries. Joseph visited the Associate Studio in September and began by reading an extract from Chris Kraus’s ‘I Love Dick’. From this prompt the discussion was wide ranging and moved through presentations of work from each of the Associates.

Associate Studio Programme 2 : Anna Barham

May 2016
In May Anna Barham visited the Highline studios. Anna began by showing a number of works each involved in the complications, vagaries and slippages of language manifest through the technologies of speech recognition – the translation of spoken words into text. Taking the form of video works and live readings/performances the processing and re-processing of one ‘medium’ to another creates elaborate mergings of units of sound and language – “insight is quick” / “inside the squid”. More...

Associate Studio Programme 3 : Stockwell 2016

May 2016
In 2013, out of their collaborative project Double agents and Acme Studios, created a ‘transitional’ studio space for recent graduates in the UAL Hall of Residence; the Glassyard Building, in Stockwell, south west London. The first group of eight CSM BA Fine Art graduates will be moving out in October 2016 and applications are now being invited from 2015 and 2016 graduates for the next programme, from October 2016-18. The CSM Associate Studio Programme provides a supportive environment without simply extending More...

Associate Studio Programme 2 : Yuri Pattison

Mar 2016
Yuri Pattison made the first studio visit to the new studio at the Highline Building in Elephant and Castle. Yuri began by showing images of some recent works and discussing their evolution. The notion of an on-going and contingent, rather than final, finished and definitive material outcome was explored in some detail. Digital technologies offer considerable scoop for revision, re-editing and re-purposing; what might be thought of a process of continuous deferral (of the “final version v09” file name type) More...

‘Studios for Artists: concepts and concrete’

Publication
Oct 2015
Presenting ongoing dialogue between affordable studio provider Acme Studios and London art and design college Central Saint Martins, ‘Studios for Artists’ takes a detailed look into the changing form and function of the artist’s studio in relation to contemporary art practice, as revealed through an extensive program of research, studio visits and interviews. The form, function and future of the artist’s studio is the central focus of the collaboration and of this publication. More...

Associate Studio Programme : Youkobo, Tokyo exchange 2015

May 2015
In partnership with Youkobo Art Space Tokyo, and Tokyo Geidai (Tokyo University of the Arts) the Associate Studio has provided an opportunity for two Associates to spend six weeks based at Youkobo in their own work/live studio, while the Associate Programme hosts two Tokyo based recent graduates. The two Associates, selected through open submission who were based in Tokyo from 1 May – 15 June, and 16 June – 31 July 2015 respectively, are Lydia Davies and Chris Ifould. More...

Associate Studio Programme 1 : Lindsay Seers

Feb 2015
Lindsay Seers’s visit to the studio was characterised by the presence of one of her ventriloquist’s dummies; Billy. As well as joining the Associates for a series of staged portraits (which then became Lindsay’s gift to the studio) Billy exercised an influence over the discussion; ranging as it did from the sometimes vague boundaries between fact and fiction, synaesthesia and neuroscience. Billy’s role; as a conduit through which to speak, More...

Associate Studio Programme 1 : Laura White

Feb 2015
Sculptor Laura White’s studio visit began with her reading a short text describing her ongoing project which involves her undertaking short training courses in a range of specialist manual skills, not necessarily those associated with the skills of an artist, sculptor or maker. These included butchery, fish knife skills, brick laying and sushi making. This emphasis on the material qualities of things, stuff, tools and processes formed the basis of the discussions with each of the Associates offering some response to Laura’s prompt. More...

Associate Studio Programme 1 : Lisa Panting

Aug 2014
Curator, and co-director of Hollybush Gardens, Lisa Panting visited the Associate Studio Programme in August. The visit coincided with the Associates preparations for their group show at the offices of the architects John McAslan Partners. The discussions centred on this and the balance of the opportunities it offered and the constraints it was subject to. It was noted that as a space that served both as a gallery and the lobby of a busy architects practice there were some More...

Associate Studio Programme 1 : Stockwell 2013

Jul 2014
Having been in the studio for almost a year the first Associate Studio Programme is well established. The eight Associates have maintained the open plan layout allowing each other to expand and contract their activities within the shared space as their work demands. In addition to the studio visits by artists, writers and curators, the studio has been visited by other studio providers and academics, and most recently by artist/photographer Hugo Glendinning. More...

Associate Studio Programme 1 : Redmond Entwistle

Event
Jun 2014
In June artist Redmond Entwistle visited the Associate Studio Programme. He began by showing his film ‘Monuments’ prompting a discussion of both the ideas of the three artists; Smithson, Graham and Matta-Clark, and the film’s interweaving of fact and fiction through their relocation to the contemporary outskirts of New Jersey, where their works had first been made. In particular the stylistic combination of artists’ film, documentary, genre (zombie) movie and dead-pan comedy, provoked the discussion. More...

Associate Studio Programme 1 : Adam Chodzko

Event
Mar 2014
In March artist Adam Chodzko visited the Associate Studio Programme. Adam’s visit coincided with his show at Marlborough Contemporary ‘Room for Laarni’. Adam offered his thoughts on the studio and the processes that occur there, “what aspects of making are necessarily done in isolation – in private, even from ourselves! – and which develop from an interior dialogue; an immediate anticipation of them being shared with another”. More...