Delaine le Bas

(1965, Worthing)
She lives and works in the U.K.

About the Artist
Delaine Le Bas is an interdiplinary artist. Her works deal with topics of nationality, race or gender issues. She is working with all kind of medium from painting to photography, from installation to embroidery. Her own experience as a Gypsy appears characteristically and firmly in her art. Etnography and fine art become one, and cannot be sharply separated, where in her artistic vocabulary kerchief with flowers, handwritings, richly decorated pictures with her own cutted hair and the emroidery can be read as a sighifier of her Romani womanhood.  In the publiciation for the First Roma Pavilion at Venice in 2007, Le Bas was quoted as saying: "As a Romany, my viewpoint has always been that the outsider and this position of the 'other' is reflected in the materials and messages within my work. We live in a culture of mixed values and garbled messages. My works are crafted from the disregarded and disparate objects of the car boot sale and the charity shop."
Studies
 
1981 - 1986
West Sussex College of Art & Design, Worthing

1986 - 1988
Central St Martins College of Art & Design, London

Selected solo exhibitions
 
2023
Secession, Wienna
 
2020
Berlin Biennale
 
2015
Kushti Atchin Tan? - Ein guter Ort?, Galerie Kai Dikhas im Aufbau Haus, Berlin, Germany
Say No to Identity Theft Gallery8 Budapest Hungary for Off Biennale, Budapest, Hungary
Kushti Atchin Tan? Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin, Germany
 
2014
Local Name: Unknown Gypsies? Phoenix, Brighton, U.K.
To Gypsyland, Bolton Musuem and Art Gallery, Bolton U.K.
 
2013
To Gypsyland, A Studio Practice and Archive Project, Metal, Peterborough, U.K.
To Gypsyland, A Studio Practice and Archive Project, 198, London, U.K.
 
2012
O Brishindeskeriatar, The Cardiff Story, Cardiff, Wales, U.K.   
 
2011
Witch Hunt, Campbell Works, London
Witch Hunt, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Aufbau Haus, Berlin, Germany
 
2010
Witch Hunt, Context, Derry, Ireland
Witch Hunt, Chapter, Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
 
2009
Witch Hunt, ASPEX, Portsmouth, U.K

Selected group exhibitions
 
2022
Radical landscapes, Tate Liverpool
 
2019
Roma Pavillion at 58th Venice Biennale
 
2018
I will be your mirror, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
 
2017
Sites of Repressed Remembrance, Gallery8, Budapest, Hungary
3. Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin, Germany
Scharfstellen_1 <rotor> Association For Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria
Romani History X, Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin, Germany
Hysterical Oracle Basement Arts Project, Leeds, U.K.
On The Reservation East Street Arts, Leeds, U.K.
Still Unresolved and Very Much Ongoing, Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, U.K.
Creating The Countryside - Thomas Gainsborough To Today, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, U.K.
 
2016
Akathe Te Beshen, CentroCentro Cibeles De Cultura y Ciudadania, Madrid, Spain
Kali Berga, Galerie Ksiegarnia Wystawa, Krakow, Poland
Akathe Te Beshen, Gallery Rivoli 59, Paris, France
Frontier De Luxe, Atelier21, Aachen, Germany
Frei Sein! Heidelberg Castle Ottheinrichsbau, Heidelberg, Germany
(Re)conceptualising Roma Resistance, Goethe-Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
Universal Hospitality (Into The City), Alte Post, Wien, Austria
(Re)conceptualizing Roma Resistance, Hellerau, Dresden, Germany
Safe European Home? Art Exchange Essex University, Colchester, U.K.      
Blake's Outsiders, Worthing Museum & Art Gallery, Worthing, U.K.
 
2015
Stopping Places Galerie Kai Dikhas Berlin U.K.
Safe European Home? - RomAmor, Hellerau - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Dresden, Germany
The Invisible Faces Of Europe Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden      
Safe European Home? For Diasporas Babylonia Thessaloniki, Greece
The Feast Wagon The Tetley Leeds, U.K.     
Under Erasure - Apects of Roma/Gipsy/Traveller Life In Europe, The Gerlesborg School of Fine Arts, Sweden
Gerlesborgsskolan Göteborg Biennial for Contemporary Art Gerlesborg, Hamburg, Germany
Gerlesborgsskolan Göteborg Biennial for Contemporary Art Gerlesborg, Stockholm, Sweden
Safe European Home? Past Present Future, Hellerau Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Dresden, Germany
Romani Revolution, Volkshochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany
She's Not Pop Art collaboration with George Mihai Vesilescu Muzeul Culturii, Romilor Bucharest, Romania
Transmitting Trauma?, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin, Germany
Inter Nation, Art A Group Show Of Contemporary Art HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia 
Whose Nation? Re-imagined National Identities, Gallery8, Budapest, Hungary
Embodied Spaces Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
From Artificial Curiosities? To Art with Scott Benesiinaabandan und Tom Thomson, Gallery Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
Have A Look Into My Life!, Duplex 100m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina      
The Third Edition Of The Project Biennial Of Contemporary Art D-0 Ark Underground, Titio's Atomic War
Command Bunker, Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Have A Look Into My Life! HALIML, Bucharest, Romania
Love & Loss LENTOS, Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
Portrait Of The Artist with Tara Darby, Transition Gallery, London, U.K.
Basket Case II, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Africa
PH1 Artists, The New School House Gallery, York, U.K.
 
2014
Stopping Places, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin, Germany
Grace In Thy Sight, PH1 Artists Residency, Eye of York, York, U.K.
Jaw Dikh! JCC Galerie, Krakow, Poland
Akathe Te Beshen, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Basket Case II, National Gallery Of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa
Have A Look Into My Life! Mediatheque Mateo Maximoff, Paris, France
Sites Of Collective Memory, Phoenix, Leicester, U.K.
Navigations, Urban Dialogues, Red Gallery, London, U.K.
Sites Of Collective Memory, CGP London, U.K.
Portrait Of The Artist,Delaine Le Bas and Tara Darby, Transition, London, U.K.
To Gypsyland, 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, London, U.K.
Akathe Te Beshen - Heir Um Zu Bleiben, Kunststaion, Kleinassen, Germany
Have A Look Into My Life! Stadtmuseumgraz, Graz, Austria
Safe European Home? MART, Dublin, Ireland
Tajsa, BMW, Tarnow, Poland    
Have A Look Into my Life! Aubette, Strasbourg, France
Houses as Silver as Tents MWW, Wroclaw, Poland
 
2013
Safe European Home? No:5  1.Berliner Herbstsalon, Gorki Theatre, Berlin, Germany
Safe European Home? No:4 Past, Present, Future..Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin, Germany
Other Sisters, Dialogue with iwona Zajac, Gdanska Galeria Miejska, Poland
Houses as Silver as Tents, Zacheta National Gallery Of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Me, You and The Others, Savoy-teatteri, Helsinki, Finland
Safe European Home? No:3, The Dandelion Project, Trane Udstillingen. Copenhagen, Denmark
Art As Action and Outside Northumbria University Newcastle U.K.
Safe European Home? No:2 CHB, Berlin, Germany
Video.Art.Activsm. Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin, Germany
Me, You and The Others, The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas, Tampere, Finland
Black  Butterflies, The New School House Gallery, York, U.K.
Stopping Places II, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin, Germany
 
2012
Gypsy Revolution, Delaine Le Bas & Damian LeBas, Kaapelin Galleria, Helsinki, Finnland
Gypsy Revolution U.K, Museum Of East Anglian Life, Suffolk, U.K.
Gypsy Revolution, Cable Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Gypsy Revolution, Kalio Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
 
2011
Reconsidering Roma - Aspects of Roma and Sinit Life in Contemporary Art, Kunstquartier, Berlin, Germany
Stopping Places, Galerie Kai Dikhas im Aufbau Haus, Berlin, Germany           
Face To Face, Galerie DY's, Brussels, Belgium
Safe European Home?, Into The City, Wiener Festwochen, Austria
Home: Fragile, Transient, Extraordinary, Loaded. Core Gallery, Deptford, London, U.K.        
The World Turned Upside Down In The Cathedral Of Erotic Misery (After Kurt Schwitters), Latitude Contemporary Art, Lattitude, Suffolk, U.K.
Wir sind Bettler, Stadtmuseum Graz, Graz, Austria
Ministry of Education Warning: Segregation harms you and others around you. Prague, Czech Republic
 
2010
BigMinis - Fetishes of Crisis, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Artblitz, Transition Gallery, London, U.K.
The World In A Few Steps, Association For Contemporary Art,Graz, Austria
Stardust Boogie Woogie, A Monika Bobinska Project, London, U.K.         
Whose Map Is It? New Mapping By Artists, INIVA, London, U.K.
Inside, Outside and The Spaces In Between, Kuntstraum Next Andra, Graz, Austria
Foreigners Everywhere, T293, Naples, Italy
If Not Now, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Prognostic Bridewell, A.P.T, Deptford, London, U.K.
Sur Le Fil, Musee International Des Arts Modestes, Sete, France
 
2009
Foreigners Everywhere, D’vir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Sur Le Fil, La Maison Folie Wazemmes, Lille, France
Folk Magic and Curious Objects, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, U.S.A.
Living Together, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contempornea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Witch Hunt, ASPEX, Portsmouth, U.K
Living Together, Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Performances
 
2017
“A Question Of Reflection?” 3. Berliner Herbstsalon Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin, Germany
“Romani Embassy” Romani History X Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin, Germany
“Defiance” - Propositions for Non-Facist Living - Video - Bak Utrecht, The Netherlands
“Romani Embassy” Alexanderplatz Berlin, Germany
“Hysterical Oracle” Basement Arts Project Leeds, U.K.
“Kali Rising” Part II Jaw Dikh! Czarna Gora, Poland
“Romani Embassy” Jaw Dikh! Czarna Gora, Poland
“Romani Embassy” International Roma Caravan Memorial Szczurowa, Poland
“A Question Of Authenticity?” East Street Arts Leeds, U.K.
“Romani Embassy” East Street Arts Leeds, U.K.
“Romani Embassy” Bradford City Park Bradford, U.K.
"On The Reservation" The Tetley Leeds, U.K.
"A relatively random collection of works: An object of reflection and debate." For Critical Contemplations Tate Exchange Tate Modern, London, U.K.
 
2016
“My Racist Friend/” The DaDDars Train Of Thought Gallery Worthing, U.K.
“My Racist Friend” The DaDDars Brady Arts Centre London, U.K.
“Frontier De Luxe” Crisp Street Market London, U.K.
“There’s No Place Like Home…” Crisp Street Market London, U.K.
"Kali Rising" Kali Berger - Jaw Dikh! Czarna Gora, Poland
“Romani Embassy” Jaw Dikh! Czarna Gora, Poland
"Gypsy Presence From The 17th Century Ongoing" For Disordered and Reconsidered at 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning London, U.K.
"Frontier De Luxe Hear Her Scream" Atelier21 & Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany
"Romani Embassy" Fete De L'Insurrection Gitane St Denis Paris, France
"My Skin Is Mine" #RomaDay Brandenborg Tor Berlin, Germany
"My Skin Is Mine" (Re)conceptualising Roma Resistance Hellerau Dresden, Germany
 “Medea” Safe European Home? Arts Exchange Colchester U.K.
"Jerusalem? The Ancient Days? Albion?" with Noisferatu for Blake's Outsiders at Worthing Museum & Art Gallery Worthing U.K.
"Swear To Tell The Truth Part II" <30th JAN> :START Palace Court Hastings U.K.
 
2015
"Sind Wir Nicht Alle Ein Bisschen Cacele" with Hamze Bytyci Hilton Zimmer 437 for 2. Berliner Herbstsalon GORKI Berlin, Germany
"Medea" for Diasporas Babylonia Thessaloniki, Greece           
"Romani Embassy" NIASH Hastings Sussex, U.K.                   
"Modern Witch" for RomAmoR! Nancy Spero Salon Hellerau Dresden, Germany               
"Jerusalem" with Nosiferatu for Blake's Outsiders Train Of Thought Gallery Worthing, U.K.
"Romani Embassy" for PRISaC "Romany Triangle" Autograph ABP Rivington Place London, U.K.
"My Skin Is Mine" for From Artificial Curiosities? To Art Tom Thomson Gallery Owen Sound Ontario, Canada               
"First Class Traveller" Roma Body Politics III Say No To Identity Theft, Performed by Marton Rovid, Gallery8, Budapest, Hungary
"My Skin Is Mine" Gallery8, Budapest, Hungary
"Identity/Oh Bondage Up Yours", Kushti Atchin Tan? Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin, Germany
 
2014
Performance Matters: Strategy, Critique and the Politics of Romani Representation in the U.K and Beyond PRISaC.
Rutgers British Studies Centre, Rutgers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.
"Paint Out Living Sculptures" with Damian Le Bas Norwich, Norfolk, U.K.
"No Apology Personal Domestic - Grace In Thy Sight" The New School House Galllery, York, U.K.
"Exhibit A & Exhibit B" with Ronke Osinowo, Frieze, London, U.K.
"Grace In Thy Sight" PH1Artists Residency, York, U.K.
"Trace" with Ronke Osinowo, Worthing, U.K.
"Trace" Jaw Dikh! Czarna Gora, Poland
"Remember Always" Merz Barn, Elterwater, Cumbria, U.K.
"Jivipen Ta Divvus" Tajsa, BWA, Tarnow, Poland
"To Gypsyland" various locations across London with Ronke Osinowo. Pictures by Tara Darby, U.K.
"Green City" after Sven Berlin w Maude Casey For Local Name: Unknown…Gypsies?, Phoenix, Brighton, U.K.
 
2013
"Carmen/Vampire" Gdansk, Poland
"Trace" Merz Barn, Cumbria, U.K.
"Contested Space"Overground Arts Jam. The Green Backyard Peterborough U.K.
“Dark Energy" Savimaski Granza Findon, West Sussex, U.K.
"Moone Men", Kosmic Krash, Herstmonceaux Observatory, Sussex, U.K.
"The Scream", The Dandelion Project, Trane Udstillingen, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Hunan Rights, Are You Listening?" Me, You and The Others, Finnish Labour Museum Werstas, Tampere, Finland
 
2012
"Dikomengro Tan" performance for 'Unseen' Experimentica,with Damian James Le Bas Soundtrack by Charles Newland Chapter, Cardiff, U.K.
"White Gypsy" Gwangju, South Korea
"Romani Revolution" performance for O BRISHINDESKERAITAR, Cardiff, U.K.
"In Praise Of Gypsies?" performance for O BRISHIDESKERAITAR, Cardiff, U.K.
"Outside - Art As Action" University Of Northumbria, Newcastle, U.K.
 
2012
"Kushti Choka's" Appleby Horse Fair, Cumbria, U.K.
"The Figurine", Performance on The Stade, Collaborative project with Louise Colbourne, Hastings, U.K.
"Crystal Ball Genocide" - Friday 27th January 2012 At The Unfinished Sinti and Roma Memorial, Near The
Reichstag, Berlin, Germany
 
2011
"Minister and Ghost a Prophecy" for Reconsidering Roma Aspects of Roma and Sinti Life in Contemporary Art,
Kuntsquartier Bethanien/Studio 1, Berlin, Germany      
"Crystal Ball Genocide",.Text by Scott Benesiinaabandan and Delaine Le Bas, Gypsy Hill, London, U.K.
"The World Turned Upside Down", Latitude Contemporary Art, Latitude, Suffolk, U.K Two performances: Witchfinder
"Solidarity" Safe European Home? with Damian James Le Bas Collaboration with Scott Benesiinaabandan, Parliament Building Vienna, Austria. Photographs by Damian James Le Bas   
"Trashimos Si Ruzlipen, Chavvy". Soundtrack by Eddie Ayres, Johnny Doe and Delaine Le Bas with poem by Firduasi. With Damian Le Bas and Mike Rogers.          
Performed for Witch Hunt at Campbell Works, London and Ministry of Education, U.K.
Warning: Segregation Seriously Harms You and the People around You, Prague, Czech Republic
 
2010
"Bloody Mary, Mary"; Witch Hunt, Context, Derry. Text by Delaine Le Bas and Damian James Le Bas. Audio Collage by Justin Langlands.          
"Mary, Mary" for Prognostic Bridewell at APT, Deptford, London. Text by Delaine Le Bas and Damian James Le Bas. Audio Collage by Justin Langlands           
There Is No Dividing Line for Cross Identifying, Becoming Minority, Reitveld Academy, Amsterdam, Holland With Damian Le Bas          
"Minister and Ghost" for Witch Hunt, Chapter, Text by Damian James Le Bas and Paradise Lost by Milton Cardiff, U.K.
"See No Evil, Hear No Evil", Speak No Evil for Witch Hunt, Chapter, with Damian Le Bas and Mike Rogers. Text by Delaine Le Bas with extracts from Where The Rainbow Ends, Cardiff, U.K.
 
2009
"Stag Do", Infernal Salon, With Damian Le Bas and Mike Rogers, Brighton, U.K.
"Chanctonbury Ravens", Chanctonbury, Sussex with Mike Rogers and Damian Le Bas Ritual for Witch Hunt, Aspex, Portsmouth. With Mike Rogers. Audio collage by Delaine Le Bas and Mike Rogers, U.K.
"You Don't Look Like A Gypsy" Baro Ziro, Grounds Of Doncaster Museum, Doncaster, U.K.
"Three Blinde Mice", Infernal Salon, With H.R.T. Brighton, U.K.
 
2008
"Do I Feed From It's Plate?" with live audio by H.R.T Swear To Tell The Truth, Grey Area, Brighton, U.K
 
2007
"Chavi" Reclaiming Our Identity with Daniel Baker and Damian Le Bas. Savimaski Granza Findon West Sussex
 
2005
Ongoing Living Sculpture The body as "place" and as "object"
 
2004
Love N Bullets, Transition Gallery, London. With Damian Le Bas and Mike Rogers
 
1998
Ongoing Authenticity Material working on series of portraits with Tim Walker, Tara Darby, Damian Le Bas, Damian James Le Bas alongside self portraits.



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