Alastair Donald
Ryan Dunn
Clare Farrell
Claire Farrell
Antonia Faust
Josh Heasman
Rebecca Lynch
Fraser Muggeridge
Isabella Redmond Styles
Wenlei Zhang
Vicky Richardson
With a background as a leading architectural writer and editor, Vicky Richardson joined the British Council in March 2010 as Director of Architecture, Design, Fashion team. She was previously Editor of the monthly architecture and design magazine Blueprint (2004-2010), and Deputy Editor of RIBA Journal.
Vicky is passionate about the importance of drawing in design and architecture and is a Trustee of the charity The Campaign for Drawing. She is also an advisor to the London Mayor on creative industries as a member of the London Cultural Strategy Group.
Having studied at Central School of Art and Chelsea School of Art, Vicky took a degree in Architecture at the University of Westminster. She then trained as a journalist in Edinburgh while working at the Gallery of Modern Art.
She is a regular writer on architecture and design, and her published books include New Vernacular Architecture (2002) and In Defence of the Dome (1999).
Alison Moloney
Alison Moloney is the team's Fashion Adviser and has devised exhibitions, seminars, workshops and international collaborations in fashion, graphic and product and furniture design for our international programme of events. She has co-curated Alchemy: Contemporary Jewellery from Britain, Timeless: Experimenta 2009 and commissioned The Incidental, a social media newsletter for the Milan Furniture Fair and London Design Festival. She is currently developing a fashion exhibition which focuses on the use of cultural heritage within contemporary practice.
Alison has an MA in Fashion History and Culture from the London College of Fashion and before joining the British Council she worked as Assistant Curator at Judith Clark Costume as well as writing on fashion for both trade and commercial press.
Ellie Smith
Ellie Smith joined the British Council as Design Programme Adviser in 2009 and her work has particularly focused on the organisation's Transforming Public Spaces project in East Asia. She co-curated Happiness for Daily Life in Korea, and Supervisions at the Korean Cultural Centre in London. She was Project Manager for the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 and Timeless as part of Experimenta 2009. Ellie manages the team's communications work including as Editor of the blog and commissioner of the ADF Papers.
Ellie has an MA from UCL and postgraduate qualification in Arts Management from Birkbeck. She has worked at range of arts organisations both in the UK and abroad including New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and Creative Time; the National Gallery; and Arts Council England.
Evonne Mackenzie
Evonne joined the Architecture, Design, Fashion team as a Project Manager in 2009 and has worked on a number of projects including The Incidental, Cityscapers, Young Design Entrepreneurs Awards and the Design Curators tour as part of Connections through Culture China.
Prior to the British Council Evonne worked at The Lighthouse, Scotland’s centre for Architecture, Design and The City on the advocacy and promotion of design to Scottish companies and the business programme of the Six Cities Design Festival.
Evonne’s background also includes broader arts experience working for Creative Services, a cultural and creative industries consultancy. This role involved research and projects for leading cultural and education institutions such as The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Eden Court and Feisean nan Gaidheal.
Having studied fashion and spent two years working for a commercial architecture practice, Evonne has a broad knowledge of various design disciplines, but a particular love of beautiful print and the capacity for design to solve problems, transform and improve.
Lauren McKirdy
Lauren joined the British Council in January 2011 as a Project Assistant. Lauren is currently working on the Architecture and Design Showcase for 2012. Laurens first project was assisting with the Expo legacy Project, she also project managed Home from Home, part of the New Architects UK_Portugal international exchange programme.
Lauren graduated from Brighton University with a BA in architecture. She is particularly interested in regeneration, planning and social response to materiality and beauty in architecture.
After some time travelling, Lauren worked at the RIBA's think tank, Building Futures where she coordinated public debates addressing social and political factors affecting architecture. Following this she worked on the Architecture Foundation's public programme of events. Working closely with the programme curator, Lauren assisted in coordinating the AF's annual lecture at the Tate Modern, a two day symposium entitled Faith in the City and a number of public talks and events.
Kendall Martin-Robbins
Kendall joined the Architecture, Design and Fashion department of the British Council in July 2011. She graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA in Fashion History and Theory where she developed her passion for the interdisciplinary nature of fashion, which included topics such as the relationship between fashion and urbanism, fashion in literature, sumptuary legislation, and the history and development of fashion design education compared to other academies.
Kendall's previous work has seen her assist with the curation of 'Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion' whilst at The Barbican, as well as assisting on 'The Power of Making', an exhibition curated by Daniel Charny to be staged at the V&A. She also has experience in fashion archives, including Kensington Palace’s Historic Royal Dress Collection and the Ohio State University’s Historic Costume and Textile Collection.
Pete Collard
Pete joins the team from November 2011 to September 2012 as one of the Design Advisers covering maternity cover.
Pete worked as assistant curator on two exhibitions at the Design Museum this year, Designers in Residence and Terence Conran: The Way We Live Now. He also found time to curate This Way Up: 15 Years of Architecture, Design and Fashion at the British Council and Kate Maestri: Moving Towards The Light at the Contemporary Applied Arts during London Design Festival. For last year's London Design Festival he co-curated the installation and exhibition Innovation Greenhouse at the V&A, successfully cultivating a polytunnel full of plants used in sustainable materials research within the tunnel entrance to the museum.
After graduating from Sussex University in 2005 with a BA in Art History and Italian he went on to complete two MAs, the first in History of Design and Material Culture at Brighton University and the second in Curating Contemporary Design at Kingston. Pete spent the summer travelling with the Architectural Association's Unknown Fields research division to Chernobyl, the Aral Sea and Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
Sophie Parry
Sophie Parry worked at the British Council from 2008 to 2011 as Project Assistant. She was Project Manager for the International Architecture Showcase for the London Festival of Architecture and assisted on the Venice Architecture Biennale British Pavilion exhibitions in 2008 and 2010. She also assisted on Reconstruction, an exhibition about the reflection of cultural heritage in contemporary UK fashion and managed the UK element of an EC funded collaborative fashion project with Armenia.
Sophie completed an MA in Fashion Curation at the London College of Fashion and has curated Fashion Reborn and co-curated A Walk in the Wardrobe in 2007. She has assisted on fashion exhibitions for Brighton Museum and Art Gallery and did a year long placement in the dress and textiles archives at the Museum of London in 2009. Sophie has now moved on to work in the Touring Department at the V&A Museum.
Elias Redstone
Elias Redstone is an independent curator, writer, editor and consultant. He is the founder and curator of ARCHIZINES, the editor-in-chief of the London Architecture Diary and an online columnist for the New York Times’ T Magazine. Previously, Elias was the curator of the Polish Pavilion at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, hub curator of the 2008 London Festival of Architecture and senior curator at the Architecture Foundation, where he worked from 2003 to 2010 initiating a programme of exhibitions, events, film screenings and international exchanges. He has delivered projects in partnership with the Barbican, British Council, Center for Architecture NYC, Design Museum, MoMA, Southbank Centre, Tate Modern and Victoria & Albert Museum; edited publications for Sternberg Press and Bedford Press; and acted as a contributing editor for Arena Homme Plus and GQ Style. He received a D&AD Global Design Award in 2006 for the installation Hairywood and a Winston Churchill Fellowship in 2008 to research contemporary architecture in Latin America.
Raquel Sereno
Carla Sorrell
Clare Cumberlidge
Michael Marriott
Kate Goodwin
Melanie Kidd
Melanie Andrews
Melanie Eddy
Colette Norwood
Ellie Parke
Liz Farrelly
Helen Thomas
Oriel Prizeman
Alexandra Goddard
Vicki Sarge
Tamara Horbacka
Darragh Murphy
Nelly Ben Hayoun
Alex Maxwell
Rebecca Wells
Lilia Yip
Noel Douglas
Kasia Jezowska
Kristin Knox
Leila Hasham
Beatrice Galilee
Beatrice Galilee is the senior curator of the Communities Section at the Gwangju Design Biennale. She is director and co-founder of The Gopher Hole, an independent project space in London and a contributing editor to Domus. She is the former architecture editor of Icon magazine and was curator at the 2009 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale.
Liam Young
Matt Wade
Matt Wade - Director and Co-founder – Kin
Matt's work examines the relationship between virtual and physical experience. Matt studied Design, at Goldsmiths and Adaptive Architecture and Computation, at The Bartlett. On leaving college Matt joined Imagination, where he worked on brand experiences for amongst others: Guinness, Ericsson, Jaguar, Smirnoff, and Mazda. In 2003 the American Institute of Graphic Arts awarded a Gold Medallion to the Mazda LED wall for the Detroit Motor show. Matt joined Moving Brands in early 2004, where he worked in the role of Design Director, developing Brand Identity projects for Vodafone, Carat, Capgemini, the BBC, the University of the Arts London, and Nokia. He has given numerous talks at leading academic institutions, and was on the Design faculty at Kent Institute of Art & Design and Goldsmiths College. While at Goldsmiths he wrote a series of Interaction Design workshops for second year BA students. Notably, in 2006 an interview between Matt and musician Klaus Janek on collaboration featured in the Cybersonica festival at the Science Museum, London. And in 2007 an interview with Karsten Schmidt about the integration of Processing into Moving Brands Studio Practice featured on PingMag in Japan.
Matt founded kin with Kevin Palmer in 2008.
Jill Read
Max Fraser
Max Fraser is a design commentator, working across the media of books, magazines, exhibitions, video, and events to broaden the conversation around contemporary design. He delivers content, commentary, and strategy for a variety of public and private bodies in the UK and abroad. He is the author of several design books including DESIGN UK and DESIGNERS ON DESIGN, which he co-wrote with Sir Terence Conran. He owns Spotlight Press, a small publishing imprint, recent titles include LONDON DESIGN GUIDE and DEZEEN BOOK OF IDEAS.
