Will Gompertz

Will Gompertz is Director of the Sir John Soane’s Museum. Prior to this he was Artistic Director of the Barbican, where he helped reopen the Centre after the pandemic. He was the BBC’s Arts Editor for eleven years during which time he has interviewed countless architects, artists, actors, writers, musicians and directors, as well as writing and presenting documentaries for BBC television and radio.

Will spent seven years as a director of the Tate Galleries and has written three internationally celebrated books: What Are You Looking At? (2012), Think Like an Artist (2015) and See What You’re Missing (2023). He has lectured on the arts and creativity nationally and internationally, including giving talks at the Museum of Modern Art, V&A, National Gallery, Picasso Museum, Louvre Museum, Royal Academy, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities.