Curators' Walkthrough: Nicole Yip and Robert Leckie

Join us for a Wednesday Walkthrough – a gallery tour where artists, experts, researchers and academics give short talks in their field of expertise relating to the concepts explored in our current exhibition.

This season, we are presenting a major retrospective of the late British artist Donald Rodney (b.1961, UK; d.1998, UK). Bringing together nearly all that survives of his work across painting, drawing, installation, sculpture and digital media with rare archive materials.

In this walkthrough, curators Nicole Yip (Director, Spike Island) and Robert Leckie (Director, Gasworks) who worked on bringing this touring exhibition to our galleries will discuss some of the key concepts and ideas presented across all four of our gallery spaces.

Robert Leckie is Director of Gasworks in London. He was previously Director of Spike Island in Bristol from 2018 to 2024 and, prior to that, Curator at Gasworks from 2011 to 2018. Over the past decade, he has (co-)curated major solo exhibitions by artists including Pacita Abad, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Peggy Ahwesh,Monira Al Qadiri, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Candice Lin, Rosemary Mayer, 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), and Rosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching (König, 2023). He lectures at the Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths and the University of the Arts in London, and was a jury member for the 2022 Turner Prize.

Nicole Yip is a Director at Spike Island. Prior to that she has been Chief Curator at Nottingham Contemporary. From 2016­ to 2019 she was Director of LUX Scotland, a national agency for the support and promotion of artists’ moving image practices in Scotland. Her work there included exhibition, commissioning, production, touring, professional development and artist support, as well as delivering the annual Margaret Tait Award. She previously worked at LUX, London; Firstsite, Colchester; and ICA, London, and has curated exhibitions and projects at venues including Tramway, Glasgow; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau; the Kochi-Muziris Biennale; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and The Showroom, London. Her writing has been published by frieze, CURA, the Paul Mellon Centre and Yale University Press, amongst others. She is a trustee of Film London and chair of Film London’s Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN).

Access

This event will be held in the Galleries. Meet at Reception.

Speakers will use microphones.

This event is wheelchair accessible.

If you have any questions around access or have specific access requirements we can accommodate, please get in touch with us by emailing info@nottinghamcontemporary.org or phoning 0115 948 9750.