Award winning poet, Jo Clement, will give personal reflections on Delaine Le Bas' exhibition and read a selection of her poems. As a working-class poet and interdisciplinary maker of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller ethnicity, Clement will give the audience a unique and insightful perspective of the exhibition through her talk.
Her poems have been described as “deeply personal … rich with the lexicon of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller life” which “bear the weight of suspicion and violence directed towards those who live within the rhythms and currents of the natural world…”.
In 2019 Clement co-authored a collaborative walking and writing book, titled Outlandish, with Delaine’s son, Damien Le Bas, with drawings by W. John Hewitt, which was commissioned by New Writing North for Durham Book Festival.
The event will start with a short introduction by NCA’s director and curator of the exhibition, Harriet Sutcliffe.
This event is part of a wider public programme for +𝙁𝙖𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙈𝙮 𝙊𝙬𝙣 𝙈𝙮𝙩𝙝 – 𝙍𝙚𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 & 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙉𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙡𝙚𝙨. More information about the exhibition and other events can be found here:
https://www.visitnca.com/exhibitions/delaine-le-bas
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The exhibition has been generously supported by Necessity.
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