About the Artist
Delaine le Bas
Delaine Le Bas (1965 Worthing, UK) studied at St. Martin's School of Art, London. A practising artist since 1988, she works with fabrics, film, performance, painting, photography and sculpture, creating large-scale immersive installations.
She was one of sixteen artists who formed ‘Paradise Lost’ at the First Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2007. She worked with her late husband, artist Damian Le Bas (1963-2017), on the installations ‘Safe European Home?’ and ‘Frontier De Luxe’. In 2017, they collaborated on the stage designs, costumes and texts for ‘Roma Armee’, Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin.
In 2015, she created the ongoing installation and performance work ‘Romani Embassy’. Her works were shown in the Prague Biennale in 2005 & 2007, the Venice Biennale in 2007, 2017, and 2023, the Gwangju Biennale in 2012, Critical Contemplations at Tate Modern in 2017, and the ANTI Athens Biennale in 2018. She has participated in all of the Berlin Herbstsalons, most recently in 2025.
In 2022, Le Bas was commissioned by Tate Liverpool for ‘Radical Landscapes’. She presented ‘The House of Le Bas Established: 1984’ at the Whitechapel Gallery Archive in 2023. Site-specific installation ‘Incipit Vita Nova’ was created for Secession Vienna in 2023. A major solo show, ‘Delainia17071965 Unfolding’ opened at Tramway for Glasgow International in 2024. Delaine Le Bas was a nominee for the 40th Turner Prize, showing a new version of ‘Incipit Vita Nova’ at Tate Britain, London, from September 2024 to February 2025.
In 2025, Le Bas was in residence at ‘The White House’, Dagenham, for Create London, making the installation and performance work ‘A Stranger In Silver, Walking On Air’ and presented a solo exhibition of new work ‘+Fabricating My Own Myth Red Threads & Silver Needles’ at Newcastle Contemporary Art. She presented a solo booth installation at Frieze London, and she is an artist in residence at Celle Ligure in Genoa. In 2026, she will present ‘Un-Fair-Ground’ at the Whitworth in Manchester.
Public collections include The British Council, Musée des civilisations de lʼEurope et de la Méditerranée (MUCEM) and Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. The scenography, sculptural furniture, figures and performative elements of Delaine Le Bas’ installation works are supported by furniture designer and maker of objects, Lincoln Cato. She is represented by Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix.
Exhibition listing
Delaine Le Bas: Un-Fair-Ground
13 February – 31 May 2026
the Whitworth
Free entry
Image: Portrait of Delaine Le Bas at Glastonbury Festival 2024. Photograph by Bela Varadi.