Desk Scheme Users
LADA’s Desk Scheme was launched in 2017 when LADA moved at the Garrett Centre as an opportunity to provide subsidised desk space for artists, producers, curators, researchers and writers. The scheme has accommodated lots of London-based or visiting creatives and helped build lasting local, national and international relationships and networks.
We are currently open for applications for new Desk Scheme users.
Past Desk Scheme Users:
BULLYACHE
Gareth Llŷr Evans
Leyneuf Tines
Carrie Foulkes
Benjamin Ord
Emily Russell
Deborah Pearson
Sally Rose
Fox Irving
Sarah Wishart
Tink Flaherty
Manuel Vason
Desk Scheme space
Current Desk Scheme Users
Delaine Le Bas is a cross disciplinary artist creating installations, performance, text works, photography and film. She was born in Worthing in 1965 and studied at Saint Martin’s School of Art. Delaine was one of the sixteen artists who were part of Paradise Lost: The First Roma Pavilion in Venice Biennale in 2007. She created the project Romani Embassy in 2015 as a response to the everyday exclusions, institutional racism and segregation that Roma, Gypsies and Travellers continue to face. In 2019 she was part of FutuRoma at Venice Biennale, designing costumes for Rewitching Europe and creating the installation and performance Witch Hunt III that included an 8-metre-tall goddess. Her work has been featured in the Gwangju Biennale (2012); Critical Contemplations in Tate Modern (2017); ANTI – Athens Biennale (2018); Berlin Biennale (2020); as well as in the solo exhibition Incipit Vita Nova. Here Begins The New Life/A New Life Is Beginning at Secession, Vienna (2023). Delaine has also worked with her late husband, the artist Damian Le Bas, on the series of installations Safe European Home? (2011-2017). In 2017 they produced the stage artworks and costumes for Roma Armee at Gorki Berlin, and in 2023 the objects relating to their shared life and experiences were presented in the House of Le Bas installation at the Whitechapel Gallery. One of Delaine’s most recent commissions was for Radical Landscapes for Tate Liverpool (2022). In 2023, she performed tHIS iS nOT vaLENCIA oRange oR caRmEN with Lincoln Cato at the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern as part of the exhibition popular, which also featured Delaine’s ongoing installations and performances Witch Hunt.
LADA gathers artists, scholars and organisers of all levels to meet, make, share and think together—we need this togetherness so much.
Banner image credit:
Delaine Le Bas’s installation Incipit Vita Nova. Here Begins The New Life/A New Life Is Beginning, 2024. Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain. Image credit Ruth Holdsworth.
