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. With infectious energy and resourceful determination, Alex is a strong advocate for the business of design. She 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 and Social Impact projects.

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. Alex remains active across the studio’s full project portfolio, contributing to , and conducting design reviews for the purpose of creative input and quality control. Marking 10 years in business, Alex is committed to driving Studio Tate’s future growth and building on the studio’s reputation for delivering visually intriguing, pragmatic and value-led design.

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 delivers 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, and takes genuine delight in the studio’s growth, improved efficiencies and ever-expanding capabilities. Anita is 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, skillfully drawing out a unique design hallmark for each project.

Liz is an energetic, passionate and determined leader, heading up 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 is passionate about marrying creativity with technical precision and practical constraints, sharing this expertise with the wider team through generous mentorship and collaboration. Liz applies a considered methodology to every project she undertakes, driving solutions that reflect design excellence, meet the client brief and align with varied project programs and budgets. Liz revels in big picture thinking, developing creative narratives and resolving on-site challenges, yet her greatest passion lies in a project’s meticulous detailing – a hallmark of Studio Tate’s work.

Emily leads our hospitality, wellness, and seniors living projects, enriched by two decades of high-profile commercial design experience across Australia. As an agile thinker, Emily’s strategic, client-focused approach sees her deliver functional and emotive spaces that celebrate the nuances of the brief. Emily is an accomplished professional and a genuine partner to her clients, passionately committed to understanding their needs and dedicated to ensuring their success through thoughtful, impactful design.

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 is a deep listener whose supportive, committed and reliable nature allows her to build and maintain relationships with ease. She readily welcomes the perspectives of others, facilitating close collaboration with clients, consultants and contractors to deliver cohesive design outcomes.