Ken Taylor
(Dip. Arch.) Registered Architect, Director.
Ken graduated from the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow after gaining his undergraduate degree at the Polytechnic of Central London. He has worked as a freelance architect in Scotland and London, including Rock Townsend / Ralph Erskine on the "Ark" Office Building in Hammersmith, London, and for London Underground, working as a site architect on the Will Alsop designed North Greenwich Station. In 1998 he bought the ex milk depot at 2c Kings Grove Peckham with sculptor Julia Manheim. They have since turned this into a live /work studio and home adding three flats to the front of the building. At the beginning of the new millennium Quay 2c was formed as a vehicle for multi disciplinary projects. Ken has taught and lectured extensively in the USA, India, Europe and had a part time lectureship at the Oxford School of Architecture for many years. He has recently been a one day a week design tutor at both Brighton and Canterbury Schools of Architecture, a trustee and chair of Artpoint Trust, a Public Arts Commissioning Agency employing seven people in Oxford and is currently chair of m2gallery.
Julia Manheim
Artist, Diploma in Art and Design. Director of Quay 2c
Julia graduated in Jewellery Design from Central School of Art, London. Since then, she has run her own studio, at first making experimental jewellery and more recently, sculpture and installation art. Her work has been exhibited widely and is included in many collections. Since 1994, she has worked as lead artist on several public art projects including: Cradley Heath bus/rail interchange, Wolverton Walk and Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead, which gained her an R.S.A. Art & Architecture Award. Julia also won a McNaughton Review 2000 design award for 'Secret River' an artist's book. Currently, she is Lead Artist for Crawley P.F.I. schools and is an integral part of the Quay 2c design team. She teaches part time at Middlesex University in the Applied Design faculty.
Kate McLeod
Office Manager. BA Fine Art & the History of Art, MFA Fine Art Sculpture
Kate graduated in 2009 from the Slade School of Fine Art and came to work for the company in the beginning of 2010 on a part-time basis. Kate has exhibited in several places around the UK including The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Eyestorm Gallery and MECA. She has also been shortlisted in a Public Art Competition for British Land and awarded a prize for Figurative Sculpture from the Slade.
Anderson Inge
Anderson Inge began working with Q2c from Spring 2009. He is an architect who has completed additional academic trainings in structural engineering and sculpture. Anderson initially studied architecture at the University of Texas at Austin and the Architectural Association. He completed post graduate degrees in architecture and structural engineering concurrently at M.I.T., and more recently studied sculpture at Saint Martins College of Art & Design. He has practised architecture in the U.S.A. and the U.K., and currently combines teaching with design consultancy and public sculpture practice. Anderson's work consistently integrates concern for aesthetics, structure, material and process.
David Townsend
Architectural Assistant
Having graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design with a 1st in Interior Architecture & Spatial Design, David has become a skilled designer with over 17 years of professional experience. His past roles have ranged from that of Project Designer to Project Administrator on both commercial and private projects from the initial brief and design stages through to completion. Previous clients include Mackenzie-Wheeler, L'Oreal and Sak Bar. David joined Quay 2c on a freelance basis at the beginning of 2008.
Lucy Leonard
Architectural Assistant
Lucy is a designer and visual artist. She trained in Architecture at the Bartlett, UCL (BSc, DipArch) and in Visual Arts at Goldsmiths college (MA Textiles). She joined Quay2c on a freelance basis in 2007 and previously worked for Adams & Sutherland and for East architects on a number of environmental improvement and strategic urban design projects in London.
Lucy has exhibited at group shows in London, including The Art of Consumption (Whitecross, 2007), Material Intelligence (Entwistle, 2003), Blink (Gasworks, 2006) and Lost Found and Imagined (Salt Projects, 2006). Internationally, she has contributed to the One Minute Film Festival (Aarau, Switzerland, 2007) and her article Archive Fever in Patterns of Domestic Order was recently published in Haecceity Papers (vol.3/issue1, fall 2007, Sydney University Press). Lucy's installation work Archive/Power/Play was exhibited in m2 Gallery to coincide with London Open House at Quay House in 2007.
Lucy currently tutors architecture at the Bartlett, UCL.
Jaycee Chui
Architectural Assistant
Jaycee graduated from RIBA 1 at Nottingham University, her RIBA 2 from Westminster University where she is currently completing RIBA 3. Previously involved with Hamilton Associates and Harper_Downie Architects Jaycee began working for Quay2c part-time since Spring 2008.