Damian Le Bas

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Damian Le Bas (b. 1963, Sheffield, England) is an artist associated with the Outsider Art label, a term used to refer collectively to self-taught, mentally ill or otherwise unconventional artists working outside the confines of the art establishment. The genre is also known by the name "Art Brut", a term coined by the French artist Jean Dubuffet in c.1945 to refer to works he collected that were "raw" or "ugly". Since 1987 several of Le Bas' pieces are held in the Musgrave-Kinley Collection of works by key Outsider Artists, currently administered by Monika Kinley. The Collection includes examples by Scottie Wilson, Madge Gill and other notable Outsiders.

Among his artistic influences he cites Vincent van Gogh, Scottie Wilson and Francis Bacon, and his work has been associated with that of the New York-based American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Le Bas has frequently exhibited in the U.K, and his works have also been shown in Tokyo, France and the United States. He lives and works in West Sussex on the south coast of England.