We are extremely pleased to host a brand new installation of work by Turner Prize nominee Delaine Le Bas (Worthing 1965).

Rags Of Evidence revolves around Le Bas’ concerns around identity - how we present ourselves, how we are ‘read’ by others and how these narratives resonate through our culture. Le Bas has always used her own visual identity in her work, presenting with complicity and playing with archetypes and stereotypes as a Roma woman, challenging others who see her identity as fixed, when its very fluidity is what she is calling in to this very dialogue. The artist has stated “people think they can tell me what I am because of what they think they know.” Such assumptions have tested and plagued the Roma ever since the Elizabethan age, when they were seen as Moon People - other, outside, from somewhere unknowable and alien. Obviously, such language persists into our current political debates, when malignly constructed language desensitises us to the plight of many.