Since founding Studio Tate in 2014, Alex has grown the business into a thriving, award-winning practice that excels across multiple sectors. As a passionate connector, Alex’s capacity to cultivate a talented team of designers and close network of clients and collaborators is key to the studio’s sustained success. Alex lends expertise across the studio’s full project portfolio, contributing to the initial design direction and undertaking design reviews for creative input and quality control.

Direct yet empathic, Alex has an innate ability to understand the needs of her clients and enjoys developing strategic and creative solutions that deliver on the brief. With infectious energy and resourceful determination, Alex leads the studio’s business development and practice strategy, shaping Studio Tate’s core objectives and culture. Alex strongly believes in ‘design for good,’ driving Studio Tate’s budding portfolio of pro-bono community projects. As Studio Tate embarks on its tenth year in business, Alex is committed to further growth and ingenuity, while maintaining the studio’s reputation for visually intriguing, pragmatic and values-led design.

Energetic, passionate and determined, Liz leads our portfolio of private residential and multi-residential projects with a holistic lens, shaped by her background in architecture and interior
design. Liz is driven by the belief that design can support a happier life, with function and beauty harmoniously enhancing wellbeing. With skill in spatial planning, bespoke detailing and materiality, Liz pursues dynamic and unusual design responses, animated with colour, texture and unique design details.

Liz steers Studio Tate’s design review process, ensuring quality and consistency across all project outputs. This initiative is bolstered by Liz’s interest in marrying creativity with technical and
practical constraints – a passion she shares with the wider team through generous mentorship and collaboration. Liz finds delight in ‘big picture’ thinking, developing creative narratives and resolving on-site challenges, yet her greatest passion lies in a project’s meticulous detailing.

With 20 years’ experience in the Australian and European design industry, Anita leads our workplace and retail portfolio with a global outlook. Anita is committed to delivering creative,
responsive and detailed design solutions, regardless of the project’s scale or budget. With strength in briefing, conceptual development, spatial planning and project management, Anita yields exceptional design outcomes, amplified by her considered and disciplined design approach.

As a dedicated team player and mentor, Anita supports the team to develop quality delivery processes, finding delight in the studio’s growth, improved efficiencies and ever-expanding
capabilities. Anita is particularly passionate about Studio Tate’s flourishing pro-bono portfolio and its positive impact on the communities it serves. As a strong collaborator and communicator, Anita cultivates close working relationships with her clients. Anita skillfully draws out a unique design hallmark for each project, while enjoying a little fun along the way.

Emily leads our hospitality, wellness and retail projects, enriched by a decade of high-profile commercial design experience across Australia. As an agile thinker, Emily’s strategic, client focused approach drives functional and emotive spaces that celebrate the nuances of the brief. With consideration of the micro and macro levels of design, Emily crafts human spaces, articulated through an original palette of textures, colours, materials and furniture.

Emily is passionate about design’s capacity to elevate experience, solve problems and improve the productivity and success of a business. This commercial mindset makes Emily intrinsic to the studio’s business development and strategic management, bolstering Studio Tate’s hospitality portfolio and profile. Emily’s supportive, committed and reliable nature allows her to build and maintain relationships with ease. She readily welcomes the perspective of others, facilitating close collaboration with clients, consultants and contractors to deliver cohesive design outcomes.