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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

Travellers ‘stuck’ while other minority groups in UK progressed, says artist

Delaine Le Bas
Delaine Le Bas has created a world of installations that explore Traveller culture in a former manor house on the Becontree estate in Dagenham, east London. Photograph: Alexander Christie/Eszter Halasi

Roma, Gypsies and Travellers have not made as much progress as other minority groups in the UK because of deeply entrenched racist attitudes towards them, the Turner prize-nominated artist Delaine Le Bas has said.

Le Bas, who has spent her career exploring themes connected to her Romani Traveller heritage, said that Traveller communities have been “stuck in place” by stereotypes and hostile newspaper coverage.

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