Dickson House

Dickson House was built in 1975 as a response to a need to help local artists to stay in Richmond. This was an innovative project, acknowledged by RPLC Trustees at the time to be “somewhat experimental.”

Dickson House was the first purpose built affordable studios for non-commercial artists in London. Its original aims were to help local struggling arts and crafts people, and to contribute to the cohesion, vitality and cultural life of the Queens Road Estate as a whole.

Arts/Crafts Workshops

This building, named after Rachel Dickson MBE who has made such a great contribution to this charity, consists of eight studio workshops of which two have been subdivided to make a total of eleven units.

The workshops are sited round an attractive and impressive courtyard which can be used as a display area for the users of the workshops.

The workshops are available for local artists and craftspeople to rent, although there is currently a waiting list.

(Images are from one of the Dickson House tenants, Jean Fletcher.)