The Lewisham Arthouse Graduate Award is an exciting opportunity providing recent graduates from universities colleges and alternative art education programmes with a free studio space, a mentorship programme and production support for one year. The Graduate Award was started in 2010, to help artists who have recently left art school and were faced with an increasingly expensive and difficult task of continuing to make art. As an artist led cooperative, they understand the challenges of sustaining an art practice in London and decided collectively to dedicate one of their studios permanently as a free space for a recent graduate and to fund the project themselves.