Delaine Le Bas (Worthing, UK, 1965) is a British artist from a Romani background. Her artistic practice encompasses painting, installation, embroidery, performance, and video, exploring themes related to identity, belonging, and the condition of Romani groups. In 2024, Delaine Le Bas was nominated for the Turner Prize. In 2023, she held a solo show at Secession in Vienna titled “Incipit Vita Nova. Here Begins The New Life/A New Life Is Beginning.” In the same year, she curated “House of Le Bas,” an exhibition that overviewed the practice history of herself and her late husband, Damian Le Bas (Sheffield, UK, 1963 – Worthing, UK, 2017), for Whitechapel Gallery in London. Her work has been exhibited in several UK venues, including solo exhibitions at Tramway, Glasgow (2024), Tate Liverpool (2021), Worthing Museum and Art Gallery (2021), Transmission, Glasgow (2018), Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Bolton (2014), Phoenix, Brighton (2014), and Chapter, Cardiff (2010). Internationally, her work has been shown in the 11th Berlin Biennale (2020), Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin (2022, 2019, 2017), Roma Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), ANTI Athens Biennale, Athens (2018), Framer Framed, Amsterdam (2015), National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare (2014), and the 9th Gwangju Biennale (2011). The artist is represented by Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London.
Installation view of Delainia: 17071965 (Unfolding) at Tramway, Glasgow
photo Keith Hunter
