Celeste
Skachill

Chief Chatterbox

How can Celeste help you?

Celeste specialises in community engagement (co-design) and leads workshops. She will collaborate with you to gather insights at the start of a project and translate these into actionable plans and strategy. She oversees graphic design and web projects alongside Rach, and teaches our co-design courses with Laura.

Celeste's superpowers:

strategy

community
engagement

graphic &
spatial design

teaching &
workshops

Celeste's journey

Originally from Kaitaia, Celeste moved at age 9 to Tauranga, where her family still lives. She moved to Wellington to study graphic design at Massey University.

She worked at Open Lab agency before transitioning to exhibitions and events at Te Papa. While there, she worked on the new art gallery and the Bug Lab touring exhibition among other projects.

When both a close friend and her grandmother passed away, she decided to re-evaluate her life and quit her job to build a house and start StudioC.

Celeste’s recent projects:

Ngā Manu

Creating a better experience for visitors to a nature reserve

Farming with Native Biodiversity

Helping farmers protect native biodiversity

Zealandia

Creating a flexible education space and wildlife trail

Outside of work, she is an adrenaline junkie!

Celeste loves riding motorcycles and dirt bikes, and she races them too! In winter, she loves snowboarding.

She also enjoys bush hikes, painting, going to D&B music raves, and working out at F45 fitness classes to get strong.