A new exhibition shows how the acclaimed artist uses mixed media where words usually fail – in unravelling misconceptions about Traveller communities
’ve created a world, and it’s called Delainia,” says Delaine Le Bas, speaking ahead of the opening of her oeuvre-spanning Glasgow exhibition Delainia: 17071965 UnfoldingWorking with textiles, sculpture and performance art, the British Romany artist has been making politically charged art for most of her life“It starts with my birthdate , but it’s still going on. I’m using the word ‘unfolding’ because one thing leads into the other,” she says. “I see my work as one whole big piece.
“I’ve always been politically driven,” says Le Bas. Born in Worthing in 1965, she was the only child out of five siblings to finish school. She joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament when she was just 13, and adored punk bands such as X-Ray Spex. “It was the first time I’d heard someone speaking in any way about how I felt about myself in the world,” she says.A lover of fashion and textiles, Le Bas was determined to go to art school.
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