Delaine Le Bas

Delaine Le Bas was born in 1965 in Worthing, United Kingdom. She studied at St Martins School Of Art in London. Delaine Le Bas is an interdisciplinary artist who creates installations, performances, photography and film. Her work addresses issues of identity, race, gender and sexuality, as well as the ongoing violence and marginalisation of those perceived as ‘the other’ in society.

She was one of the sixteen artists who took part in Paradise Lost. The first Roma pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale. With her late husband, the artist Damian Le Bas, she worked on their installations Safe European Home? (2011-2017) and in 2017 jointly produced the stage artworks and costumes for Roma Armee at the Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin.

Delaine founded Romani Embassy in 2015.

Together with her son, the writer Damian James Le Bas, she has created performance and text works. Her work has been shown at the Venice Biennale 2007, 2017 and 2019, the Gwangju Biennale 2012, Critical Contemplations Tate Modern 2017 and ANTI – Athens Biennale 2018.

Other projects include costumes for Rewitching Europe, which premiered at the Gorki in Berlin in November 2019, and a new installation and performance Witch Hunt III commissioned by the Gorki for the 4th Berlin Autumn Salon DE-HEIMATIZE IT! which opened in October 2019.

Delaine was one of the artists for The Crack Begins Within Berlin Biennale 2020 and created St Sara Kali George, a mixed media installation for The Storefront For Dissident Bodies.