Delaine Le Bas
1965, WorthingLives and works in Worthing
Delaine Le Bas is a British artist born in 1965. Her work addresses nationhood, land, belonging and gender across diverse media including embroidery, painting, decoupage, sculpture, installations and performance that reflect domestic claustrophobia and the transient nature of modern materiality. Le Bas was shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2024 and she participated in the group show 'Turner Prize 2024' at Tate Britain with an immersive installation adopted from her solo exhibition 'Incipit Vita Nova. Here Begins The New Life/A New Life Is Beginning' held at Vienna Secession in 2023, which her nomination for the prize was based on.
Le Bas has exhibited her works extensively both in the UK and abroad. Recent solo exhibitions include '+Fabricating My Own Myth – Red Threads & Silver Needles', Newcastle Contemporary Art (2025), 'Stranger in Silver Walking in Air', The White House, Dagenham (2025), 'Delainia: 17071965 Unfolding' at Tramway, Glasgow (2024).
In June 2007, her work was included in the first Roma Pavilion at 52nd Venice Biennale and the Prague Biennale. She has continued participating in international events, including the 11th Berlin Biennale (2020), Harbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin (2019, 2017), Roma Pavillion at 58th Venice Biennale (2019), ANTI Athens Biennale, Athens (2018), 9th Gwangju Biennale (2011), National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare (2014), Framer Framed, Amsterdam (2015), and a number of UK venues including solo exhibitions at Transmission, Glasgow (2018), Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Bolton (2014), Phoenix, Brighton (2014), Chapter, Cardiff (2010), Transition, London (2005). 'St Sara Kali George’, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery (2021), 'Beware of Linguistic Engineering’, Maxim Gorki Theater (2022). She created a commissioned work for a group exhibition ‘Radical Landscapes’ for Tate Liverpool (2021). Le Bas curated ‘House of Le Bas’(2023) an exhibition overviewing the history of practice of herself and her late artist husband Damian Le Bas for Whitechapel Gallery in London.
VIDEOS
- Delaine Le Bas in Conversation with Christine Eyene 2019
1 hour 4 minutes 9 secondsLe Bas speaks of a wide range of issues from the questions of identity, her background and the society and how these factors shaped her practice, and of course on her late husband Damian Le Bas and their career as artists.
Recorded on 7 February 2019 as a talk session during the solo exhibition of the artist,’Tutis A Rinkeni Moola, Abri,’ at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix.
video and photos in the video by Alexander Christie
- Delaine Le Bas ‘Zigeuner Sauce’ solo Exhibition image video 2021
5 minutes 18 secondsDelaine Le Bas ‘Zigeuner Sauce’ solo show 2021 image video
video by thevideoproducers.co.uk
- Delaine Le Bas ‘St Sara Kali George’ at Worthing Museum and Galleries 2021
4 minutes 59 secondsAn image video for a solo exhibition of Delaine Le Bas ‘St Sara Kali George’ held at Worthing Museum autumn 2021.
- Delaine Le Bas in conversation with Christine Eyene 2021
57 minutesFull footage of the conversation that took place at the gallery in December 2021. The two spoke on Delaine’s practice, how it has developed over the years and on the most recent projects. Video by thevideoproducers.co.uk
- Delaine Le Bas performance ‘Beware of Linguistic Engineering’ 2021
6 minutes 55 seconesDelaine Le Bas new performance enacted during the opening evening for her solo show ‘Zigeuner Sauce’ at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix on 7 October 2021.
- Delaine Le Bas Performance 'The House of Le Bas presents: Beware of Linguistic Engineering' 2021 short version
5 minutes 13 secondsA short version of the video of the performance : The House of Le Bas presents : Beware of Linguistic Engineering
Second performance enacted on 2nd December 2022, for the exhibition ‘Zigeuner Sauce’
With : Hugo S. Santos
sound : Justin Langlands
video by thevideoproducers.co.uk - Delaine Le Bas Performance 'The House of Le Bas presents: Beware of Linguistic Engineering' 2021
14 minutes 37 secondsA video of the performance The House of Le Bas presents : Beware of Linguistic Engineering
(full length version
enacted on 2 December 2021 in conjunction of Le Bas’s solo show ‘Zigeuner Sauce’.with : Hugo S. Santos
sound : Justin Langlandsvideo : thevideoproducers.co.uk
- Incipit Vita Nova. Here Begins The New Life/A New Life Is Beginning, 2023, Vienna Secession
2 minutes 38 secondsImage video of the solo exhibition at Vienna Secession
Video: Max Reinhold
- Delaine Le Bas performance 'tHIS iS nOT vaLENCIA oRange oR caRmEN', 2023, IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern,
17 minutes 1 secondPerformance for the opening of a group exhibition 'Popular' 2023, IVAM
- Delaine Le Bas introduces Delainia: 17071965 Unfolding
9 minutes 40 minutesA video created by Tramway Glasgow for Le Bas's the major solo exhibition 'Delainia: 17071965 Unfolding'.
- It's not a dress rehearsal
9 minutes 13 secondsA video created by the Tate for the occasion of the artist's nomination for the Turner Prize 2024. Directed by Will Hazell.
A beautiful, poignant piece of video!
- Delaine Le Bas : Performance 'The Archipelago on Fire / L'Archipel en Feu'
20 minutes 20 secondsThe performance was enacted on 29 November at the gallery, with Hera Santos.
Video by thevideoproducers.co.uk
- Delaine Le Bas Tate Britain presentation for Turner Prize 2024
7 minutes 51 secondsAs a shortlisted artist for the Turner Prize 2024, Delaine Le Bas is presenting an exhibition 'Incipit Vita Nova. Here Begins The New Life/A New Life Is Beginning' at the Tate Britain. Until 16 February 2025.
Video by thevideoproducers.co.uk
- Delaine Le Bas +Fabricating My Own Myth – Red Threads & Silver Needles, Newcastle Contemporary Art
1 minute 13 secondsThis is a short version of the film documenting Delaine Le Bas installing her exhibition, +Fabricating My Own Myth – Red Threads & Silver Needles, at Newcastle Contemporary Art in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2025. Created by Newcastle Contemporary Art.
- Delaine Le Bas interview on Stranger in Silver Walking on Air, The White House Dagenham, by Studio International
28 minutes 50 seconds
‘People still have expectations about what I should or shouldn't be doing’
From the heart of her installation at the White House in east London, the Romany artist talks about her inspirations, her processes, and how she seeks to deconstruct the stereotypes, language and images that are used to exclude Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in broader society.
Interview by DAVID TRIGG
Filmed and edited by MARTIN KENNEDY
from the YouTube page of Studio International
Press
- Sep 2024The World of Interiors : Double Stitch
READ MORE ON www.worldofinteriors.com - Sep 2024Art Quarterly : Romani Art through a feminist lens (autumn 2024)
READ MORE ON ocean.exacteditions.com - Sep 2024Metropolitan (magazine of Eurostar, Autumn)
READ MORE ON metropolitan-eurostar.com - Aug 2024ArtUK : Unfolding : an Interview with Delaine Le Bas
READ MORE ON artuk.org - Jul 2024Ocula Magazine: Stitching Stories: Inside Delaine Le Bas’ World
READ MORE ON ocula.com - Jun 2024The Guardian '‘Language is a massive exclusionary tool' 6th June
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