From 1976 to 1981, The Acme Gallery ran from a converted banana warehouse in Covent Garden. It showed work from emerging artists, or for those whose work in installation and performance was difficult to accommodate elsewhere.

For more information on exhibitions at The Acme Gallery, please get in touch.

1981

1/1981 - Alastair MacLennan, Days and Nights. 144 hours. 11 - 17 January.

2/1981 - Dale Frank, Tipoff. 26 - 31 January.

3/1981 - Natural Disasters, Station House Opera, Thought/Death, Fiona Templeton, The Ninth Method, Grande Grille. A season of evening performance. 2 – 7 February.

4/1981 - Clyde Hopkins, Paintings. 13 February – 7 March.

5/1981 - Colin Hall, Paintings. 20 March – 11 April.

6/1981 (U) - Kieran Lyons, Dream Ship Sinks. Performances. 21 – 25 April 1981.

7/1981 (L) - Chris Welsby, Estuary. 21 April – 2 May.

8/1981 (U) - Richard Layzell, Conversations. 30 April – 2 May.

9/1981 - Artists for Nuclear Disarmament (AND). Exhibition and Auction. 12 – 30 May.

10/1981 (L) - Stephen Cripps, Cripps at the
Acme, Performances. 1 – 5 June.

11/1981 (U) - Harry Kipper & Karen
Finlay, ‘Poopoo & Peepee’ in BABA! CACA!
Performances. 1 – 5 June.

12/1981 - Darrell J Viner, Who Manipulates
Who. 12 June – 4 July.

13/1981 (U) - Tony Sinden, Space Between / Space Beyond. 20 July – 13 August.

14/1981 (L) - Ron Haselden, Graving Dock. 20 July – 13 August.

15/1981 - Martin Ive, Morrie Minamoto’s Only
Zen Can One Hate Photography. Installation.
18 – 22 August.

16/1981 - Bruce Lacey and Jill Bruce, Towards
the Real Reality. 7 – 19 September.

17/1981 - Stuart Brisley and Iain Robertson, Touching Class. 5 – 17 October.

1980

1/1980 - Michael Ginsborg, Recent Paintings and Drawings. 11 January – 9 February.

2/1980 - G F Fitzgerald, Evening of 20th century music. 25 January.

3/1980 - Mary Fulkerson, The Little Theatre. 10 and 11 February.

4/1980 (L) - Kate Westbrook, Paintings. 22 February – 19 March.

5/1980 (U) - Mike Davis, Paintings. 22 February – 19 March.

6/1980 - Keith Allen, Simon Brint, John McKeon & Co, Baldness Eliminated – in a matter of hours! 21 – 23 March.

7/1980 - Albert Irvin, Paintings 1979/1980. 4 April – 3 May.

8/1980 - Stephen Cripps, Cripps at the Acme.
Drawings & Performances. 9 – 17 May.

9/1980 - Martin Ive, Kamerakaze. 23 and 24 May.

10/1980 - John Bellany, Recent Paintings & Drawings. 30 May – 28 June.

11/1980 - Terence Hayes, 10 Years / 20 Days. 7 – 26 July.

12/1980 - John Crampton, Windmill. 28 – 30 July.

13/1980 - Zack Zaltzman, Sculpture. 8 – 30 August.

14/1980 - Keir Smith, Like Nimrod’s Tower… 5 – 27 September.

15/1980 – Shelagh Cluett, Emma Park, Josefa Rogocki, Claire Smith. Eight Artists: Women: 1980 Part 1. Painting and Sculpture. 3 – 25 October.

16/1980 - Mikey Cuddihy, Sarah Greengrass, Margaret Organ, Alison Wilding. Eight Artists: Women: 1980. Part 2. Painting and Sculpture.31 October – 22 November.

17/1980 (L) - Alastair Brotchie, Paintings. 28 November – 10 January.

18/1980 (U) - Malcolm Jones, Paintings. 28 November – 10 January.

1979

1/1979 - Mark Camille Chaimowicz, Mick Hartney and Tony Sinden, Video Tapes. 19 and 20 January.

2/1979 - Gary Wragg, Paintings 1977/1978. 2 February – 9 March.

3/1979 (L) - John McKeon, Report to Alice. 26 – 31 March.

4/1979 (U) - David Pearl, Clive Bell, David Humpage, Colin Wood, Amber Hiscott. Improvisations evoked by drawings. 30 – 31 March.

5/1979 - Charles Pollock, Recent Paintings 1974/1978. 13 April – 18 May.

6/1979 - Kipper Kids in Up Yer Bum. 26 May – 3 June.

7/1979 - A Series of Banquets with cabaret and performance. 5 – 9 June.

8/1979 - Min Tanaka, Hyper-Dance ‘Drive’. 11 – 12 June.

9/1979 - Kerry Trengove, Solo. 17 – 30 June.

10/1979 - Alastair MacLennan, 7 Ways. 8 – 14 July.

11/1979 - On the tenth anniversary of man’s first landing on the moon Bruce Lacey celebrates the Apollo Missions. 21 July.

12/1979 (U) - Jane Rigby, Ambient – Vision. 13 – 25 August.

13/1979 (L) - David Critchley, Pieces I never did. 13 – 25 August.

14/1979 (U) - Jock McFadyen, New Work. 31 August – 22 September.

15/1979 (L) - Kevin Atkinson, Paintings &
Works on Paper. 31 August – 22 September.

17/1979 - Bill Culbert, Recent Light Works. 10 October – 10 November.

18/1979 - John McKeon, Quartet. 19 – 24 November.

19/1979 (L) - Ron Haselden, Turning Scrap. 19 November – 8 December.

20/1979 - Mary Fulkerson with Miranda Tufnell, Dennis Greenwood and Libby Dempster, Magic Dances. 30 November and 1 December.

21/1979 - Julian Maynard Smith, Performances. 5 – 9 December.

22/1979 - Chana Dubinski, Weighting. 14 December – 6 January.

1978

1/1978 - London Calling, Performance Plus. 16 – 22 January.

2/1978 - An exhibition by Da Wu Tang. 3 – 23 February.

3/1978 - 5 Days at Acme. A programme of one-off events focusing on dance and performance art. 28 February – 4 March.

4/1978 - Eight Artists. Out of the blue… 17 March – 4 April.

5/1978 - John McKeon, Kelly. 8 April.

6/1978 - Stephen Cripps, Cripps at the Acme, Machines & Performances. 22 April – 4 May.

7/1978 (U) - Jock McFadyen, Paintings. 13 May – 2 June.

8/1978 (L) - Peter Smith, Paintings. 13 May – 2 June.

9/1978 - Jackson Mac Low, Poetry / Performance. 17 June 1978.

10/1978 (U) - Tony Sinden, Garden Site, Etc. Etc. 12 – 24 June.

11/1978 (L) - David E Hilton, From a here and
now…and…then…at Acme. Film installation and
performance. 12 – 24 June.

12/1978 (L) - Nigel Rolfe. Red Wedge. 3 – 15 July.

13/1978 (U) - Hesitate & Demonstrate, Frozen Moments. 3 – 8 July.

14/1978 - 8 in 4 Days. Eight artists - Installation and performance. 27 July – 2 August.

15/1978 - Acme week of Music / Sound. Installation and music. 7 – 13 August.

16/1978 - Ron Haselden, Working 12 days at
the Acme Gallery. 18 – 29 August.

17/1978 - Stuart Brisley, 180 hours. 4 – 12 September.

18/1978 - Bruce Lacey and Jill Bruce, Ancient Forces. 22 September – 12 October.

19/1978 - Anthony Whishaw, Recent Paintings. 27 October – 18 November.

20/1978 - Harry Kipper, Me and My Shadow. 12 November.

21/1978 (U) - Helen Chadwick, Train of
Thought. 28 November – 16 December.

22/1978 (L) - John Kaine, Home Defence. A
shop display. 28 November – 16 December.

23/1978 - Stuart Brisley, 10 days. A ritualised
de-construction of the ritual by Stuart Brisley
in association with Manfred Blob. 21 – 31 December.

1977

1/1977 (U) - Laurie Rae Chamberlain, State of Vector. 6 – 22 January.

2/1977 (L) - Robert Janz, Six Sticks and Chalk Shadows. 8 – 22 January.

3/1977 - Philippa Beale, Collected from Here. 25 January – 12 February.

4/1977 - New Contemporaries, The Live Show. 14 – 26 February.

5/1977 - New Work by Martin Hearn, William Raban, Nina Sobel and Chris Welsby. 2 – 12 March.

6/1977 - RILKO artists, Earth Mysteries. 22 March – 9 April.

7/1977 - Frank Bowling, Selected Paintings 1967/77. 15 April – 7 May.

8/1977 - Rose Garrard, Incidents in a Garden. Exhibition / Installation / Performance of new work. 18 May – 8 June.

9/1977 - Richard Barr, Paintings & Drawings. 15 June – 6 July.

10/1977 - 5 Days in July. Over 30 performances and installations mostly involving film. 8 – 13 July.

11/1977 - Richard Layzell, Breaking Down – Finding New Paths. 29 July – 17 August.

12/1977 - John Crampton, Bow Ties. 27 August – 16 September 1977.

13/1977 - Roger Kite, Paintings & Drawings. 23 September – 15 October.

14/1977 - Kerry Trengove, An Eight Day Passage. 25 October – 1 November.

1976

1/1976 - Robert Janz, Six Lines on Two Floors. Pre-Opening Drawing. 14 March.

2/1976 - Mike Porter, Paintings.
Opening Exhibition. 4 – 22 May.

3/1976 - New Contemporaries, Live Work. 31 May – 5 June.

4/1976 - Claire Smith, Paintings & Drawings. 11 June – 2 July.

5/1976 - Edmund Tillotson, Sculpture and works on paper. 22 July – 11 August.

6/1976 - Simon Read, Twelve Stern Presences and other photographic work. 17 August – 4 September.

7/1976 - Oleg Kudryashov, Drypoints. 9 – 25 September.

8/1976 - Week of Music. 13 – 18 September.

9/1976 - London Calling, A Portfolio of the Performing Arts. 20 – 27 September.

10/1976 - Richard James, Paintings. 30 September – 16 October.

11/1976 - Charles Hewlings, Sculptures. 22 October – 10 November

12/1976 (L) - Ron Haselden, Sticks for the Dog. 15 – 20 November.

13/1976 (U) - Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Fade. 18 and 19 November.

14/1976 - Gary Wragg, Paintings. 27 November – 18 December.