Y Gaer, Art Gallery & Museum, Brecon | 29th June 15th September 2024.In collaboration with David Thomas (words) and Joe Bayliss (sound) In late 2019, prompted by an ongoing group of drawings he was making, visual artist Keith Bayliss offered an idea to his friend and long-time collaborator, the poet David Thomas, that they look…
Read MorePlay is a Roomy Subject / Le Jeu est un Sujet Spacieux
Play Is a Roomy Subject is an international exhibition, featuring works from Welsh and Canada-based artists, held at the University of Ottawa. The show variously explores metaphorical dynamics of play and care within space and relationships. Relationships, be that on an individual scale, or within communities and collectives, or even between humans and their environment,…
Read MoreWales/Canada exhibition | Nov 2022
This Autumn, my work will feature in an exhibition at Galerie 115, University of Ottawa, Canada. Provisionally titled Serious Games, it will be curated by Celina Jeffery in collaboration with uOttawa MFA Contemporary Curating students. My pen and ink drawings will feature alongside work by several Canadian artists, plus the following artists from Wales: Hamish…
Read MoreThe Sketchbook | April 2022
“The sketchbook is as an essential part of the creative process for many artists and makers. In a literal sense it is a portable tool, ready to record, jot down, sketch, and collect ideas as they emerge. It is usually private space, for exploring freely, developing ideas over time and experimenting with new materials and…
Read MoreDavid Greenslade & Supreme Collaborators | March 2022
In March 2022, Keith will be part of a group show, ‘David Greenslade and Supreme Collaborators’ at Volcano Theatre in Swansea. The exhibition is a collection of people the writer and poet David Greenslade has collaborated with and includes a selection of artists, writers, photographers, television presenters – including Desmond Morris of Naked Ape fame!!…
Read MoreThe Coming of Age, Fringe Arts Bath | May 2022
‘Society cares about the individual only insofar as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.’ Opening on 27th May, Keith will be part of this group exhibition being developed by curators Bella Kerr & Amanda…
Read MoreR&J Q&A | February 2021
“The present situation has not altered the making of art for me. It has sharpened its focus.”
Keith Bayliss Q&A with Roderick & Jones in February 2021.
Read MoreField of Souls/Maes Eneidiau
Drawings in ink on paper, 2021 These drawings in ink on paper are an ongoing series which have come from 2020/21 and the atmosphere of worry and fear and sadness that inhabits the world in which we live. But my response is to use old and familiar characters, a bird, a floating head, the Moon…
Read MoreProserpina
Drawings in ink on paper, 2021 Some ideas come out of the blue or the darkness. At least it seems that way. The name Proserpina came to me, the memory of something read and vaguely remembered. A consequence of a year or more working on ideas borne of the sad time we are experiencing. Proserpina…
Read MoreThe Green of Keith Bayliss by David Greenslade | 2012
Portrait of Keith Bayliss in his studio. Photograph by Bernard Mitchell
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