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About Will Gompertz


In late December 2009, I joined the ´óÏó´«Ã½ as arts editor, a newly-created role, having spent the previous seven years as a director of Tate.

Will GompertzThere, I was responsible for - the UK's most popular art website - where I was fortunate to find an extraordinary team of dedicated editors and programmers who rightly won numerous awards including a Bafta and a Webby. I set up a TV production unit, making arts programmes for Channel 4 and ITV and finalised a movie deal with Aardman Animation shortly before I left. With a terrific team, I created , the UK's highest-circulation art magazine.

I began my life in the arts just below the bottom rung of the ladder as an 18-year-old shop assistant in Our Price Records. This was followed by stints as a holiday camp entertainer (at the same place where Hi-De-Hi was filmed), as a stage-hand at and as a runner for a TV company.

Sadler's Wells; Tate Britain; Hi-De-Hi; Our Price

In my early twenties, I co-founded , a global magazine/DVD covering short films, pop promos and commercials (I eventually sold Shots; ). And for the past 20 years I have published, edited and written about the arts for a range of publications including the and the . I have advised many arts and media organisations and was a board member of the .

In the summer of 2009, I wrote and performed a one-man show at the Edinburgh Fringe called , a light-hearted lecture on the story of modern art. The show was a sell-out; but, as friends were quick to point out, it was a very small venue.

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