Studios for Artists: Concepts and Concrete

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.