My friend Jonathan Harvey, who has died aged 74, was for 44 years joint chief executive of Acme Studios, a charity he co-founded with David Panton in 1972 that provides affordable spaces for artists.
Acme achieved this miracle by leveraging from the Greater London council the short-term occupancy of condemned dwellings and redundant commercial and industrial buildings – everything from an entire street of derelict houses to a meat pie factory, a hotel, a foundry, a Cornish net loft and an abattoir.
