Event overview
The Contemporary Art Talks programme is organised by the Department of Art
Delaine Le Bas is a part of large family of English Romani Gypsies based in the South of England, an artist she lives and works in various locations across the UK and Europe. Delaine’s artistic practice consists of various sized installations that combine mixed media and include the use of sound and performance. The works deal with issues of exclusion and stereotypes that are far reaching and ingrained into the human consciousness. Untold histories, exclusion based on difference and misrepresentation loom large in the works, bi-lingual texts which are produced with her son Damian James Le Bas, cultural symbols that make reference to ‘others’ whoever ‘they’ may be and how one way of ‘inclusion’ of difference has been by destroying the culture of ‘others’.
Delaine is currently in residence in Gdansk working on ‘Dialogue 13 - Other Sisters’ with Iwona Zajac, an ongoing installation at Gdanska Galeria Miejska; and a major installation work ‘Houses as Silver as Tents’ at Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw. Her installation ‘Witch Hunt’ toured the UK in 2009-11 and was exhibited at Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin and the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, 2012. Group exhibitions include ‘Paradise Lost, The First Roma Pavilion’ Venice Biennale, 2007; ‘Refusing Exclusion’ Prague Biennale, 2007; ‘Foreigners Everywhere’ with Clare Fontaine, Damian Le Bas and Karl Holmqvist in 2009-10. ‘Gypsy Revolution’ Kalio Kunsthalle, Finland, 2012.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 27 Nov 2013 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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