Announcing Chiswick House & Gardens Studios Open in May 2025

Artists’ Studio Company (ASC) is delighted to announce the launch of its new artist and maker studios opening in May 2025.

Developed in partnership with Chiswick House & Gardens Trust, a champion of local arts and community, the studios will form part of the Trust’s ambitious new Community and Creative Campus designed to boost cultural and creative activity in the local area.

Chiswick has been a home for globally renowned artists, from the legendary William Hogarth to Sir Peter Blake. Now, ensuring this rich artistic legacy continues, CHGT and ASC are inviting local artists and makers to take up space within its peaceful idyllic setting, offering creative seclusion while remaining connected to the city’s dynamic art scene.

The new creative campus aims to cultivate a vibrant, inclusive community of artists and makers that reflect the diversity of the local area, ensuring that this historically significant space remains welcoming to all and supports a thriving, sustainable local creative economy.

Underused historic sheds and stables, located within Chiswick House & Gardens, are being transformed into 20 new studios, providing workspace to between 40 to 50 local artists and makers, situated in a wildlife rich green oasis of 65 acres within the busy capital. The 18^th century gardens, originally designed alongside Chiswick House to showcase art, will provide affordable dedicated workspaces for creatives such as painters, sculptors, illustrators and photographers.

The new studios mark the first step in the creation of a vibrant Creative Campus at Chiswick House & Gardens, a wider project that will introduce a volunteer hub, expanded community and learning spaces, and a community fruit garden in the coming years. More than just a studio space, the creative hub will offer artists and makers opportunities to engage with the public through Open Studios, workshops, and exhibitions. Collaboration will be key, with artists and makers invited to work with local groups, take part in community projects, and showcase their work in the Chiswick House & Gardens shop, ensuring creativity remains at the heart of this historic site.

Funding for the Creative Campus and new studios has been made possible by generous support from a range of funders including London Borough of Hounslow, the National Lottery Heritage Fund, The Linbury Trust, the Foyle Foundation and the Architectural Heritage Fund.

Xanthe Arvanitakis, Director of Chiswick House and Gardens Trust, said:

‘‘We’re incredibly excited to launch these new artist studios at Chiswick House & Gardens, marking the first step in our vision for a vibrant Creative Campus. Chiswick has long been a home to artists, and this initiative ensures that tradition continues – offering affordable, inspiring workspaces in an extraordinary and beautiful setting in the capital.

We’re proud to be working with ASC on this new development to provide artists and makers with both financial support and creative opportunities, ensuring they have the space and resources to grow and thrive in their practice.’’

Peter Flack, Founder and Chief Executive Office of Artists Studio company (ASC), said:

“I have been involved with the development and management of thousands of creative studios across many buildings but what especially excites me about this project, is its amazing location and our partnership with CHGT.

London is very expensive, and artists and makers find it especially difficult to live and work here.  Affordable good quality workspace is vital if the capital wishes to retain its cultural identity. The Creative Campus will offer affordable workspace to local creatives for years to come and within one of the most beautiful settings in the capital.

ASC and CHGT have shared aims for the Creative Campus and our close partnership promises to deliver unique and exciting cultural events and opportunities across the studios, gardens and house, for both CHGT visitors and those local creative individuals lucky enough to be offered a studio here”.