Borders & Boundaries: Artist Talk Series // Delaine Le Bas

Name: Hereford College of Arts
Price range: $

Date

19th March - 19th March 2026
Time

18:00 - 19:30
Location

College Road Campus
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We are very excited to welcome 2024 Turner Prize nominee Delaine Le Bas to HCA for the third Borders and Boundaries talk, delivered in partnership with Meadow Arts.

About the event

Following the success of the 2025 artist talk series, Meadow Arts and Hereford College of Arts present Borders & Boundaries. In this second series, the new programme invites five artists whose practices explore borders, boundaries and marginal spaces, to offer their critical perspectives on identity, place and belonging.

Delaine Le Bas (born 1965) is a British artist from a Romani background. One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary art, Le Bas is renowned for her work addressing nationhood, belonging, gender, and identity, using a diverse range of media including embroidery, découpage, painting, sculpture, installation, and performance Le Bas was shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2024. Le Bas has exhibited her works extensively both in the UK and abroad.

I am interested in breaking the borders and boundaries, not being confined or bound by them. From a societal and class structure point of view, which still persists. I have had it said to me on so many occasions I cannot be who I say I am because I do what I do, I will not be bound by that.
Delaine Le Bas in coversation with Clare Purcell, Meadow Arts. (Photograph by Lincoln Cato)

Read Wallpaper's article on Delaine's new show

Watch: a 9-minute documentary on Delaine by the Tate

5 Minutes with.... interview with Meadow Arts

More about the artist

Delaine Le Bas recently opened her first solo show in Manchester, at the Whitworth. The exhibition presents an expansive overview of the artist’s groundbreaking feminist practice, including painting on calico, drawing, embroidery, video, and performance.

Informed by Le Bas’s studies in fashion design, her deep engagement with folklore and witchcraft, and her Romany heritage, the exhibition unfolds as an immersive mixed-media environment of found and invented images that move beyond racial, political and sexual borders.

Recent solo exhibitions include:

'+Fabricating My Own Myth – Red Threads & Silver Needles', Newcastle Contemporary Art (2025), 'Stranger in Silver Walking in Air', The White House, Dagenham (2025), 'Delainia: 17071965 Unfolding' at Tramway, Glasgow (2024).

Hopefully people will experience lots of different things - colour, the sound, different types of work - and not only my work either, because there’s works from the collection here at the Whitworth, which is quite extensive, and also there will be new works that some artists from Venture Arts will be making in the space.
Delaine Le Bas

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More on the Borders and Boundaries talk series

This talk series follows an incredible 2024 line-up that saw the likes of Hetain Patel and Bobby Baker visit our campus.

Funded in part by the Arts Council, and curated and delivered in partnership with the wonderful contemporary visual arts charity Meadow Arts, the series is proud to bring some of the leading voices in UK contemporary art to Hereford.

The series is free to attend - although advanced booking is always recommended due to high demand. We hope to see you at an event soon.

The 2024 lineup:

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