Leyla Bumbra holds responsibility for The Courtauld’s extensive Research Forum programme and public engagement activity, including the Open Courtauld Strand and the Decolonising Action Group Scheme. While working in community arts, she completed her MA(Hons) at The University of Glasgow in History of Art and Theatre Studies in 2015. After two years working in Paris and then Australia, Leyla returned to the UK to complete an MA in Gender, Society and Representation at UCL. Leyla then joined The Courtauld in 2019. Leyla sits on various committees internally and externally, including The Courtauld’s exhibition Committee, Equality Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Health and Safety Committee, The Strand Aldwych Curation & Activation Group and is a member of Museum Detox. Leyla is also a fledgling yoga teacher who is invested in combining art, physical movement and mediative slow looking into her professional practice.
Media appearances:
- Es Devlin and Ekow Eshun in conversation
- The Beauty Permit
- Peter Doig: Etchings for Derek Walcott
- Fuseli and Hair in the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism
- Open Courtauld Hour: The Modern Woman and Fuseli
- Open Courtauld Hour Season 6: Captured!, Restaged!, Can-Can!, Dress-up! , In Conversation with Cecily Brown , Van Gogh and his Self-Portraits , A Good Brew , Art and Scent
- Open Courtauld Hour: Art and Wellbeing, The Art of Feasting, Past Orders – Art and Social Scenes, A Poetry Special, Rethinking Gauguin, British – Art, Immigration and Migration, Radical Printmaking, Indecent Exposure?, Musical Interludes, Hair Moments and A Night at the Theatre
- The Big Draw Festival: Make the Change!
- The Big Draw Festival: A Climate of Change
- Dan Hicks and ‘The Brutish Museums’
- Radical Acts of Cultural Fluorescence
- In Conversation: Refugee Artists and the Ben Uri Collection
- ART HISTORY FESTIVAL: Hidden Figures: Unlocking The Courtauld Collection
- Considering Collecting: Collecting in the Digital Age
- Charles Stankievech and The double Agent
- Trans Artists in Conversation: Charlie Craggs and Travis Alabanza
