Exhibition

Delaine Le Bas: Un-Fair-Ground

A photograph of Delaine Le Bas' installation, '+Fabricating My Own Myth – Red Threads & Silver Needles' at Newcastle Contemporary Art 2025. The installation is a large scale piece, mainly neutral and cream in colour with large red threads stitched across the top and the yarn left to fall at one side in a heap. The installation also includes a figure, who is decorated with bright print peeping out from behind a draped piece of fabric. This image is representing the event Delaine le Bas: Un-Fair-Ground.

The artist Delaine Le Bas sat on a chair on a piece of grass outside at Glastonbury Festival. There is a large-scale brightly coloured mural on the wall behind them.

Two Venture Arts’ artists – Sarah Lee and Leslie Thompson – are delighted to be collaborating with Delaine Le Bas on her latest show, Un-Fair-Ground, happening at The Whitworth from 13 February – 31 May 2026

The exhibition marks Le Bas’s first solo museum show following her Turner Prize nomination in 2024, with the Whitworth’s galleries transformed into a bold mixed-media installation of painting, sculpture and video.

Working alongside Le Bas, Sarah Lee and Leslie Thompson will help shape parts of the exhibition, with new work created collaboratively for display within the gallery spaces. The show turns the museum into a space of magic and play, bringing together more than 20 works from the Whitworth’s collection – from William Blake’s The Ancient of Days to pieces from the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection – across four immersive environments. Highlights include a large-scale witch house installation, a central performance-style space, and Un-Fair-Ground, a monumental mural first created for Glastonbury Festival in 2024.

There will be a Neurodivergent friendly tour for Neurodiversity Awareness Day with Sally Hirst on Thursday 19 March.

🎟 Free entry