Craig Riley

FOUNDING DIRECTOR
Designer and Creative Director

After graduating from the Royal College of Art in London UK, Craig spent over 25 years designing museum exhibitions and visitor experiences both nationally and internationally. Keen to align this skill set, way of thinking and working, to a new world of museum making, Craig set up his own practice to pursue a vision for designing experiences that invite a deep collaboration with clients, teams and communities in creating and making work. He sits as co-chair on a voluntary community fund raising committee that supports an annual festival of activities to broaden access, exposure and education in shared cultural and literary heritage.

Julie Riley

CO-DIRECTOR
Business Manager

Julie has worked for design practices within the museum sector for over 20 years, managing the finance, contracts, general admin, strategy and resources that support successful projects. Julie is a performing and recording songwriter and artist. She actively promotes female and non-binary DIY artists and grassroots musicians for a not for profit organisation through writing and live shows. Julie sits on a voluntary neighbourhood forum representing the interests of the local community.

Pamela Carter

COLLABORATIVE ASSOCIATE
Playwright and Dramaturg
Pamela and Craig worked together to provide ‘theatrical’ input into a project with AOC Architecture at the Science and Media Museum in Bradford, UK. Her skills are core to studioRILEY’s process of making work.
Pamela‘s plays include: Lines (Yard Theatre); Fast Ganz Nah/Almost Near (Theater Dresden); Skåne (Hampstead Theatre; winner of the New Writing Commission at the Berliner Festspiele Stückemarkt in 2012); What We Know (Traverse Theatre); Wildlife (Magnetic North Theatre Co). Her work with Stewart Laing includes: The End of Eddy, Slope, Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner, and An Argument About Sex (After Marivaux).
Jule Rubi

COLLABORATIVE ASSOCIATE
Curator and Producer, International Cultural Projects Manager
After training at the Ecole du Louvre and the Musée des Arts et traductions Populaires (today the MuCEM in Marseille) Jule travelled to Montreal, before continuing a career in London and later in Muscat, Oman.
For a decade, in between her own projects at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and for the Royal Opera House in Oman, Jule and Craig worked together on landmark projects in France: Lascaux in the Dordogne region and the recently opened Musée national de la Marine in Paris, while at the British design agency Cassonmann. At studioRILEY, their collaboration continues.
Fascinated by languages and translation - a bridge across cultures - Jule also worked for two years with non-profit organisations ATLAS and the Institut Français to promote the translation of Arabic literature in France and Europe.