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Delaine Le Bas Artist
Delaine’s works explore the experience of intolerance, misrepresentation, transitional displacement and homelessness which continue to be a daily occurrence for many in the world. Her work contains political and social commentary of the world in which we live. She creates installations that include art, performance and music.
Profile
Delaine Le Bas is a British Artist of Romani Heritage.
b. 1965 in Worthing, Sussex, UK. Lives in England.
MA Fashion & Textiles, Central St Martins College of Art & Design, London.
Delaine Le Bas is a cross disciplinary artist creating installations, performances, photography and films. She is one of 16 artists who were part of Paradise Lost, The First Roma Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2007, one of 14 artists at the FutuRoma Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2019, and the co-founder of the 1st Roma Biennale in Berlin 2018.
Her works are included in Venice Biennale 2007 & 2019, 1st Roma Biennale 2018, Prague Biennale 2005 & 2007, Gwangju Biennale 2012, Zacheta National Gallery Of Art 2013, MWW Wroclaw Contemporary Art Museum 2014, The Third Edition Of The Project Biennial Of Contemporary Art D-O Ark Underground Bosnia and Herzegovinia 2015, Off Biennale Budapest 2015, Goteborg International Biennial For Contemporary Art Extended, Athens Biennial 2018.
Recent Shows & Exhibitions
2019
FutuROMA, Collateral Event for The 58th Venice Biennale 2019. Curated by Daniel Baker. Commissioned by ERIAC.
Tutis A Rinkeni Moola, Abri..., solo show at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London EC1
In the Forest of Grief I Grew like a Shrub of Gold for group show Orlando in the present time, Wolfson Gallery, Charleston, UK
2018
In the Forest of Grief I Grew like a Shrub of Gold for group show Orlando in the present time, Wolfson Gallery, Charleston, UK
House of Le Bas Gypsy Couture, ANTI: Athens Biennale 2018, Athens, Greece
Safe European Home? Worthing Museum, UK
1st Roma Biennale, Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany
2017
Roma Armee, Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany
Transgressing the Past, Shaping the Future, Eriac Art, Berlin
Still unresolved and very much ongoing (group), Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London
2016
Frontier De Luxe, Atelier21, Aachen, Germany
(Re)conceptualising Roma Resistance, Goethe-Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
Universal Hospitality (Into The City), Alte Post, Vienna, Austria
(Re)conceptualizing Roma Resistance, Hellerau, Dresden, Germany
Safe European Home? Art Exchange Essex University, Colchester, UK
Blake’s Outsiders, Worthing Museum & Art Gallery, Worthing, UK
Press & Publications
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Delaine Le Bas – ‘a strange and interesting journey’
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Archive Material and Catalogues at The Stuart Hall Library I.N.I.V.A.
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Ma Boheme by Agnes Toth
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Paradise Found Book
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Grace in Thy Sight
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Room by Delaine Le Bas / Photography by Tara Darby / Writing by Colin Rhodes and Alex Michon
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Sister and Comrade
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Neighbours Making Evil / Houses As Silver As Tents
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Lovely Miss Elvis: Delaine Le Bas
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Open Frequency 2008: Delaine Le Bas
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