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Acme Studios and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, have set up a two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), a part government-funded programme which helps businesses to improve their competitiveness and productivity through the better use of the knowledge, technology and skills that are available within the UK knowledge base.
The project that will begin this spring will review the changing role of the artists' studio within contemporary art practice, through an extensive programme of studio visits and interviews. The project will be undertaken by an Artists' Studios Research and Development Associate, who will be based with Acme full-time for two years, employed by the university and jointly supported by an academic and Acme supervisor.
The project will result in new design specifications for artists' studios to ensure Acme continues to provide and manage studios which meet artists' changing needs of practice. Acme Studios is the leading studio development organisation in England and will open over 100 new purpose-built artists' studios over the next two years in addition to 71 new-build studios which have recently been completed
The partnership arose from discussions between Graham Ellard for the research project Double Agents based at Central Saint Martins which he leads with Professor Anne Tallentire, and Jonathan Harvey. Acme is keen to increase its links with art colleges and this project complements its programme of support for recent graduates working with Slade School of Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Royal Academy Schools and Royal College of Art.
First published: a-n.co.uk February 2010
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