Robert Leckie is Director of Gasworks, a leading non-profit arts organisation based in south London. He was previously Director of Spike Island in Bristol from 2018 to 2024 and Curator at Gasworks from 2011 to 2018. 

 Over the past decade, Robert has (co-)curated major solo and survey exhibitions by artists including Pacita Abad, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Peggy Ahwesh, Monira Al Qadiri, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Candice Lin, Rosemary Mayer, Donald Rodney, and Tanoa Sasraku. 

 Robert is co-editor of Sidsel Meineche Hansen: SECOND SEX WAR (Paraguay Press, 2019), Peggy Ahwesh:Vision Machines (Mousse Publishing, 2021), Candice Lin: Pigs and Poison (Mousse Publishing, 2023), Rosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching (König, 2023), and Donald Rodney: A Reader (Whitechapel Gallery, 2025). 

Robert was a jury member for the 2022 Turner Prize and is currently curating a major touring exhibition on Guyanese artist Donald Locke, which opens at Spike Island in May this year before touring to Ikon in Birmingham and Camden Arts Centre in London during 2025-26. 


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