Thursdsay 28th August, 6.30pm-8pm at B.A.D. (Boscombe Arts Depot), with acclaimed artist Delaine Le Bas.
Join us at B.A.D's exhibition You’re Not Alone: Women in Art 2025 with Delaine Le Bas, one of the incredible artists featured in this Boscombe and Poland based showcase.
Delaine will begin the talk by reflecting on her exhibited work 'L'Archipel en Feu 240324 250424' and then discuss her wider practice, surrounding belonging, nationhood, land, and gender through various media such as embroidery, painting, collage, sculpture, installation, and performance.
There will be time for any questions and responses to the work towards the end of the talk.
“…as a Romani, my viewpoint has always been that of the outsider and this position of the 'other' is reflected in the materials and messages within my work. We live in a culture of mixed values and garbled messages. My works are crafted from the disregarded and disparate objects of the car boot sale and the charity shops." Delaine Le Bas
About the Artist
Delaine Le Bas is a British artist, born and living in Worthing, whose work addresses nationhood, land, belonging and gender across diverse media including fabrics, film, performance, photography, texts and sculpture. “I try and express myself in many ways,” Le Bas says. “I want to show people how it feels to be ‘othered’ and where we fit when we are not part of a community.”
Exhibitions & Experience
Le Bas was shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2024 and presented large scale immersive installation works for the Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain.
She has exhibited extensively both in the UK and abroad, including solo exhibitions at Tramway, Glasgow (2024), Secession, Vienna (2023), Whitechapel Gallery, London (duo show with Damian Le Bas) (2023).
Le Bas created a commissioned work for a group exhibition ‘Radical Landscapes’ for Tate Liverpool in 2021. The artist has also collaborated extensively with her late husband Damian Le Bas (d. 2017), creating installations including ‘Safe European Home?’ and musical stage designs and costumes for Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin (2017). Her works were included in the first Roma Pavilion at Venice Biennale (2007).
Le Bas is currenlty subject of a solo show at NCA Newcastle '+Fabricating My Own Myth Red Threads & Silver Needles' until 2nd August 2025, and 'Stranger in Silver Walking On Air' at The White House Dagenham for CREATE London, until 27 September 2025.
Le Bas is represented by Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix London
Banner Image - Delaine Le Bas, A Stranger in Silver Walking on Air, photograph by Alexander Christie
This talk will be at the B.A.D Gallery in Boscombe: 616-622 Christchurch Rd, BH1 4BP. The gallery is in the Sovereign Centre, and is accessible from the high street.
Tickets
Tickets are £5. Free tickets are available for those with low income, outsider artists, asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants. Please email us if you would like a free ticket.
About OSC
Open School Creative is a collaboration between BEAF Arts Co and TOSH (The Old School House) to support our community of artists and their artistic development at all stages of their career. OSC events and workshops are for artists interested in collaboration, skills development, community and networking.
Getting to us
If you are coming by foot or by bus, take the M2 bus and get off near Boscanova if coming from Southbourne, or the stop after Aldi if coming from Poole and Bournemouth. If you are coming by car we would recommend parking in the sovereign centre car park.
Pokesdown for Boscombe train station is a 15-20 minute walk, along Christchurch Road.
If you have any access needs you would like to let us know about, please feel free to email us: contact@toshspace.co.uk
