Delaine Le Bas explores her English-Romani heritage to engage with themes of trespass, nature, and togetherness in precarious circumstances such as climate change. The outdoors or being outside is her studio and her transdisciplinary work intertwines and encompasses all areas of life such as grief, identity, and mobility be it through fashion, music art, or performance.

Her intimate works, often with flowing fabrics and text are politically charged and a window into her emotional and private everyday life with a strong sense of belonging to the Rom*nja people, their history, and rich cultural heritage. No matter what class or position you have, there is always an underlying uncertainty of failure and collapse lurking mercilessly.

At Lost Farm Festival Delaine Le Bas will expand on the explorations into water with an iteration of her performance Rinkleni Pani – English-Romani for Beautiful Water – a commission in 2022 for Radical Landscapes at Tate Liverpool U.K. Lostfarmers can join in the outdoor performance installation and have the opportunity to see the universe through the artist's eyes.

Delaine Le Bas lives by the seaside on the Sussex Coast U.K. and works with fabrics, film, performance, photography, and sculpture creating large-scale immersive installations. Her works have been included in Prague Biennale 2005 & 2007, Venice Biennale 2007, 2017, 2023, Critical Contemplations at Tate Modern 2017, and ANTI Athens Biennale 2018. She was one of the nominees for the 40th Turner Prize at Tate Britain London. She lives in Worthing West Sussex, U.K.

Photo: Delaine Le Bas courtesy the Artist & Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix