We’re delighted to announce that Paolo Salvador has been awarded the inaugural Orsman Road Studio Award at Acme. As the first recipient of this new ten-year programme, he will take up a two-year studio residency in Hackney from August 2026, supported by a £4,000 materials budget.

Paolo Salvador is a painter whose work explores Peruvian cosmology, personal memory, and transformation across humans, animals, and nature, drawing on mythologies and the landscapes of the Amazon and the Andes.