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.
Kate Mahony works in front of people. She is interested in performance and liveness, with themes spanning from inside-out methods to wrongness, alternative education, making noise and normative behaviours. Her practice has come out of framing performance within a ‘gig economy’ that is an artistically unrestricted and often unpaid platform. By catering to the ‘gig’ at hand, Mahony’s performances are quick, cheap and site responsive. For the past ten years Kate has been creating and curating live performance and moving image works that have embraced immediate/DIY ways of making, as well as fronting two bands, Rainham Sheds and Shake Chain. She is currently working and delivering workshops which consider and teach how to perform or ‘un-sing’ with a ‘hysterical voice’. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at intuitions such as SET, Nottingham Contemporary, SPILL Festival, Bluecoat Gallery, Goethe University and UICA (USA). Kate’s practice is cross-disciplinary in approach, from co-curating a performance programme out of a lock up single-car garage in Bethnal Green (LUPA), to creating a DIY crew of amateur filmmakers to capture a Live Action Roleplay (LARP). From 2019 – 2022 Kate has been the lead artist for City as Studio at Modern Art Oxford, a professional development programme for young artists creating lo-fi performance and moving image works. Kate graduated from Goldsmiths College with her BA in Art Practice in 2012; School of the Damned in 2016; and MFA from the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford in 2017. She is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University.
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:
Installation view of Delaine Le Bas, Incipit Vita Nova (Thus Begins a New Life) at Tate Britain, London 2024. Image credit Ruth Holdsworth
