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Building creative communities through exhibitions, events, and more. Artists Studio Company (ASC) is a London based registered charity founded in 1995. Our core aims are to support artists and makers, promote the arts and educate the public in the arts. We are the leading affordable workspace provider to artists and makers in London. We currently support over 800 practitioners and to date we have

managed a total of 22 buildings. We continue to play a major role supporting London’s creative talent, nurturing thousands of individuals and making a huge positive change to the capitals cultural landscape. We are very proud that a great many of our tenants have gone on to become household names. However we place greater value and believe deeply in fostering communities and in reaching out to people who might never have engaged in art. We aim to support creative people from all economic backgrounds and of course from all ethnic backgrounds. We strongly believe art can only be truly relevant when it is open to all.

20/08/2026

Ready to show your work? 🎨�
ASC Project Spaces are available exclusively for our artist tenants to exhibit, document, and share their practice. �Swipe through to see how to book your building’s space and what’s included! ➡️

📍 Spaces available at Empson St, Stockwell Rd, Grafton Rd, Cleaver St, Canalside, The Cube & Streatham Hill.

🔗 Tap the link in our bio and click on our ASC Linktree or head to our ‘Book a Space’ Highlight to apply.

You can also head to our Project Space web page, where you’ll find all booking forms and upcoming exhibitions: ascstudios.co.uk/events-exhibitions/project-spaces

31/07/2026

ASC Art Prize Exhibition 2026 ✨

We are excited to present the ASC Art Prize Exhibition 2026, bringing together 10 incredible ASC-based studio artists! 🎨

📅 Private View & Awards Ceremony: Thursday, 6th August | 6PM – 9PM
✨Special Saturday opening 8th Aug 12PM-5PM�
📅Viewing dates: 6th - 17th August | Monday - Friday | 10AM - 5PM
📍 Location: ASC Gallery at The Handbag Factory
🏆 Winner of the £1,000 ASC Artist Award will be announced during the opening night!

Earlier this May, across 8 buildings, over 300 artists opened their doors for 3 action-packed weekends of Open Studios, welcoming over 5,000 visitors across Kingston, Alperton, Bow, Chaplin Centre, Brixton, Streatham, Croydon, and Lambeth Old Courthouse.

Our 10 finalists:

🎨 Trish Wylie (ASC Alperton) – Direct, large-scale cinematic paintings referencing Westerns.

✨ Faza Merajdin (ASC Bow) – Subtle painted works exploring geometry, light, and planes of distortion.

🖼️ Laura Broughton (ASC Lambeth Courthouse) – Figurative paintings bringing playful charm to social scenes.

🌍 Isabel Rock (ASC Brixton) – Artist & climate activist creating surreal, post-human futures through large-scale drawing, printmaking, and sculpture.

📜 Samantha Jackson (ASC Thurlow Street) – RCA graduate utilizing found materials and large-scale drawing.
🖌️ Huw Briggs (ASC Streatham Hill) – Text-infused abstract works built with household paint, wood dust, and spray paint.

🌿 Justine Formentelli (ASC Brixton) – Magical, organic translations of landscapes and nature.

🌆 Jose Rafael Mendes (ASC Croydon) – Bringing charm and strangeness to everyday urban scenes through painting and drawing.

🌀 Marc Elmes (ASC Streatham Hill) – Complex, colourful, and dynamic sculptures crafted from papier-mâché.

📖 James Kay Harris (ASC Kingston) – Playful figurative paintings inspired by storytelling and poetry.

🏆 PROUDLY SPONSORED BY CASS ART and JUBEL🍻🎨

30/07/2026

Calling Creatives in Brent to a one-of-a-kind networking event where you will have a chance to display your artwork in a pop-up table exhibition and possibly win a £50 prize! This table exhibition curated by ASC Exhibitions Director Darren O’Brien will take place alongside a workshop by Bloom Skills Employment on ‘How to Pitch Yourself in the Arts’. There will be free finger foods and plenty of beverages, so do come along, bring your work and spend an afternoon of art with us and fellow Brent Creatives.

To register your place, please visit: networkingforbrentcreatives.eventbrite.co.uk.

Please ensure you read all the FAQs on the Eventbrite page before signing up.

This is a free event hosted by Artists Studio Company and Bloom Skills Employment with support from Brent Council

Punchdrunk Enrichment
Grand Union Community Hub

23/06/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | In Conversation with Sara Sahores ✨

We are thrilled to share an exclusive mini-interview with artist Sara Sahores () on the Handbag Factory website today!

This upcoming solo exhibition, The Impossible Places, marks Sara’s debut solo show in the UK following her incredible win of the ASC Award at the Bainbridge Open 2025.

Tap the link: www.handbagfactory.org/events/the-impossible-places to read the full Q&A, where Sara shares the journey of developing this series after her time at the Royal College of Art, and how she transforms low-resolution, digital surveillance screenshots into beautifully blurred, tactile screen prints.

Read the interview, explore her work, and come join us for the opening this Thursday!

Private View: Thursday 25th June | 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Viewing dates: 25th June - 4th July | Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm | Weekends by appointment
Closing Event: Saturday 4th July | 5pm - 7pm
Location: ASC Gallery, 3 Loughborough St, London SE11 5RB

19/06/2026

Meet Verity Woolley ✨

A British painter living and working in South London whose practice explores gestural abstraction as a means of processing time, personal experience, and the act of painting itself.

Woolley graduated with a BA in Fine Art Painting from Camberwell College of Arts, UAL (2022) and completed the TURPS Off-Site programme (2025). Her work has been exhibited widely across London and internationally, with recent shows including States of Becoming at Vestry Street Gallery, London (2026), Plastic Vision at ASC Studios and Cross Currents at Terrace Gallery, NYC.

Her work is held in private collections in the UK, Europe, and the USA.

Visit ascstudios.co.uk/artist/verity-woolley/ to read the full interview and know more about Verity.

10/06/2026

That’s an official wrap on TRACING BRENT | Mapping place, time and memory ✨

The doors have closed, but we are so grateful for the incredible energy, warmth, and vibrant community support that filled ASC Canalside Gallery in Alperton! From a packed-out, bustling opening night to a steady stream of visitors across the entire exhibition, Brent truly showed up to celebrate local culture.

Brought to life through a competitive open call, guest curators Marco Ferrara and Simmi Dullay curated a phenomenal, deeply moving lineup of Brent talent exploring memory, migration, identity, and what it truly means to live and create in Brent.

A massive thank you to our incredible curators, our brilliant artists, and every single resident and art lover who stepped through the doors to make this exhibition an absolute triumph 🙌

🔗 Want a deeper look behind the gallery doors?

Discover the full story of the exhibition, read the exclusive artist spotlights featuring Midhuni Gopi, Nibras Hamadi, and Neemat Auladin, and relive the magic of opening night!

👉 Click this link for the whole news story: ascstudios.co.uk/tracing-brent-exhibition-recap/

Curated by: .ferrara.artist & 🖼️

Supported by ASC and funded by Brent Council as part of the Mayor’s Creative Enterprise Zone (ERA).

14/05/2026

🎉 Celebrating Our Open Studios Weekend 3 Awardees! 🎉

Weekend 3 wrapped up our Open Studios 2026 with an incredible showcase of talent across ASC Cleaver Street and ASC Hawks Road! We are thrilled to announce our final winners from these locations:

🏆Meet the Winners:

✨Laura Broughton | | ASC Cleaver Street
Laura Dawn Broughton is a London-based contemporary artist who creates narrative paintings and drawings from her Cleaver Street studio, capturing playful yet thought-provoking snapshots of city life.

✨ James Kaye Harris | | ASC Hawks Road
James Kaye Harris is a multi-disciplinary, London-based artist and poet who operates out of Studio K14 on Hawks Road. His work focuses on blending traditional mediums like painting and poetry with digital art, aiming to build a creative bridge between the canvas and the computer screen.

❤️ A Massive Thank You!
Thank you so much to all of the amazing ASC Artists who opened their studio doors, and to everyone in the public who came out to visit us across all 8 of our studio locations! Your support keeps London’s creative community thriving.

☀️ What's Next: The Summer Exhibition
Each of our Weekend 3 winners receives an art materials voucher from our sponsor Cass Art and a spot in our upcoming Summer Exhibition at The Handbag Factory!

Join us this August to see all nine of our awardees showcase their work, where they will have a chance to win the £1,000 ASC Art Prize!

✨ Stay tuned
We will be sharing full exhibition promotional details and dates very soon!

🎨 Proudly sponsored by CASS ARTand JUBEL

04/05/2026

🏆 Celebrating Our Open Studios Week 2 Winners! 🏆

Weekend 2 was a whirlwind of creativity across Stockwell Road, Grafton Quarter, and Streatham Hill. We are thrilled to announce our four standout winners! Because Stockwell Road is such a massive hub of talent, we’ve selected two winners from that site.

Each winner receives a £125 art materials voucher from our sponsor Cass Art and a spot in our August Summer Exhibition at The Handbag Factory, with a chance to win the £1,000 first prize!

🏆 Meet the Winners:

✨Isabel Rock | ASC Stockwell Road
Isabel creates contemporary fairy tales using a unique woodblock collage technique and intricate pen drawings. Her surreal narratives are inspired by her global travels and environmental activism.
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✨Justine Formentelli | ASC Stockwell Road��
Informed by a childhood in the Caribbean, Morocco, and Reunion Island , Justine’s work blends her background in illustration and production design with a global perspective.

✨José Rafael Mendes | ASC Grafton Quarter
Born in Lisbon, José explores the "in-between" of imagination and longing. His paintings serve as a stage for invented dramas, blurring the lines between selfhood, memory, and fiction.

✨Marc Elmes | ASC Streatham Hill��
Marc’s practice is deeply rooted in South London, producing visually rich and ornamental pieces. His work carries a "carnivalesque" spirit, blending modern installations with ancient mythical themes.

🎨 The Grand Finale: Weekend 3 is Coming!

ASC Hawks Road
📍47-51 Hawks Road, Kingston-upon-Thames, KT1 3DS
📅 Friday, May 8th: 6pm – 8pm
📅 Saturday, May 9th: 11am – 5pm
📅 Sunday, May 10th: 11am – 5pm

ASC Cleaver Street
📍 County Courts, Cleaver Street, Kennington, SE11 4DZ
📅Friday, May 8th: 5pm – 9pm
📅Saturday, May 9th: 1pm – 6pm

Entry is FREE. Come meet the makers, buy original art, and support your local creative community.

Proudly sponsored by CASS ART and JUBEL

ASC is a registered charity dedicated to keeping art affordable in London. Charity Registration number: 1045067

01/05/2026

🚀 The Grand Finale: ASC Open Studios Weekend 3! 🚀

Join us for the third and final weekend of ASC Open Studios 2026 as we open the doors to our vibrant workspaces in Kingston and Kennington. Whether you’re looking to buy original art or simply soak up the inspiration, come see why London’s art scene is world-class.

🎨 THE WEEKEND 3 LINEUP | May 8th – 10th

ASC Hawks Road
📍47-51 Hawks Road, Kingston-upon-Thames, KT1 3DS
📅 Friday, May 8th: 6pm – 8pm
📅 Saturday, May 9th: 11am – 5pm
📅 Sunday, May 10th: 11am – 5pm

The Experience: Artists are opening their studios directly to the public!

ASC Cleaver Street
📍 County Courts, Cleaver Street, Kennington, SE11 4DZ
📅Friday, May 8th: 5pm – 9pm
📅Saturday, May 9th: 1pm – 6pm

The Experience: Visit a dedicated studios exhibition. Individual studios may be visited upon request through the artists. �

✨WHY VISIT?

Meet the Makers: Chat with artists directly about their process and inspiration. �
Buy Original: Acquire unique, handmade art and support independent creators. �Support Local: ASC is a registered charity dedicated to keeping art affordable in London. Charity Registration number: 1045067 ��

Entry is FREE. Grab a friend, pick a location, and come explore!
🔗 Link in bio for more information.
Proudly sponsored by CASS ART and JUBEL

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3 Loughborough Street
London
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Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

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Website

http://www.ascstudios.co.uk/, http://www.thehandbagfactory.co.uk/, https://ascstudios.start.page/

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