Helen Legg has been appointed as artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. She will start her new role in in June.
Legg will join the Royal Academy from Tate Liverpool, where she has been director since 2018. Earlier in her career, she was a curator at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, from 2005 to 2010 then director of Spike Island, Bristol, from 2010 to 2018. She has also been part of selection committees for British and Scottish representation at the Venice Biennale and judge for the Turner Prize, the Contemporary Art Society’s Museums Award, the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, the Jerwood Drawing Prize and the Paul Hamlyn Artist’s Awards.
‘The RA is led by leading artists and architects, with the UK’s oldest – and crucially free – art school at its heart’, said Legg in a statement. ‘The opportunity to shape the RA’s artistic programme and respond to its extraordinary gallery spaces, as well as launching the expanded Collection Gallery, is tremendously exciting.’
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