Deptford X 2025: Artist Talk with Thanh Le Dang

Deptford X is a visual arts charity based in Deptford, South East London. We foster artistic talent and nurture community within the borough of Lewisham and beyond. We achieve this through a free biennial festival in Deptford and ongoing activity supporting artists and our local communities throughout the year.Founded in 1998, Deptford X is London’s longest-running visual arts festival. Every two years, we stage a free, ten-day festival, working with hundreds of artists to locate art at the centre of everyday life for all of the area’s communities.

Deptford X

Join artist Thanh Le Dang at Art Hub for a talk on their commissioned piece for DX 2025.

Deptford X 2025: Artist Talks

A free public programme of artist talks and performances by our commissioned artists.

Thanh Le Dang is an artist turned writer and theatre-maker who also works in children’s education. She creates community-rich, immersive experiences.Having lived in Beijing, India and Spain, her work always returns to her roots—born and bred in Deptford. Her ancestors came from a Chinese border village; her parents fled post-war Vietnam before settling in south-east London. Thanh Le Dang's work for Deptford X 2025 is China Plates. Dispersed and tucked into corners, windows and unexpected locations around Deptford, is a series of hand-painted paper plates by Thanh Le Dang. Reflecting familiar local scenery, the work draws on memories of growing up in a Chinese-Vietnamese immigrant household, blending childhood imagination with the brutalist architecture of council estates.The plates mimic porcelain once reserved for guests, becoming a public art installation across shopfronts and street corners. China Plates carries diasporic and colonial echoes—traces of Thanh’s family history, from a small Chinese border village to post-war Vietnam and finally Deptford. Her grandfather’s quiet role in the opium trade lingers as a distant thread in the wider web that once fed tea routes to south-east London.“The first plate features Dolphin Tower… I remember staring out at the blocks with a warped sense of spatial awareness, feeling taller than God… These window views have remained constant in my life. They’re small windows into what it meant to grow up here—stories soaked into the walls and skies of Deptford.” Thanh Le Dang

Our {communityGuidelinesLink} describe the sort of content we prohibit on Eventbrite. If you suspect an event may be in violation, you can report it to us so we can investigate.

To report other categories of prohibited or illegal content, submit {link}

Deptford X 2025: Artist Talk with Thanh Le Dang

More events from Deptford X

Discover more events from Deptford X, from Arts to other experiences you might love.

Deptford X 2025: Artist Talk with Thanh Le Dang

More events from Deptford X

Discover more events from Deptford X, from Arts to other experiences you might love.

You might also like...

Browse more events with different dates, prices, and formats to find your next great experience.