Damian Le Bas

Damian Le Bas (born 5 January 1963, Sheffield) is a British artist associated with the Outsider art (or "Art Brut") label. Since 1987 several of Le Bas' pieces are held in the Musgrave-Kinley Collection of works by key Outsider artists, administered by Monika Kinley, until her death in 2014.[1]

Le Bas' Irish traveller heritage[2] forms a recurrent theme in his work: recently, he has explored the claustrophobia experienced by nomads in modern European society by mixing cartography with an idiosyncratic tribal portraiture.

Le Bas attended the Royal College of Art.[3] He has exhibited frequently in the UK, and his works have been shown in Tokyo, France, the United States and elsewhere. Le Bas' work has been included in both Prague Biennale 3[4] and the Roma Pavilion of the 2007 Venice Biennale.[5][6]

He lives and works with his wife, the Romany artist Delaine Le Bas,[3] in West Sussex on the south coast of England. He is the father of gypsy writer Damian "Danes" Le Bas, who edits the gypsy and traveller magazine Travellers' Times.

References

  1. ↑ Dempsey, Andrew (6 April 2014). "Monika Kinley obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  2. ↑ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/high-profile-stories-of-children-expose-europes-anti-roma-prejudice/article15200641/
  3. 1 2 Steward, Sue (29 October 2000). "Outsider dealing". The Observer. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "PRAGUEBIENNALE3". Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  5. ↑ "Paradise Lost: The First Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale". Open Society Foundations. 2007. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  6. ↑ Acton, Thomas. "Damian Le Bas". Universes in Universe. Retrieved 4 August 2014.

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