Art Central Gallery in Barry, South Wales is presenting its 18th Holocaust Memorial Day Exhibition from 18th January to 22nd February 2025. Monday 27th of January 2025, will be Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) where many remember a scarred world sadly drenched in racism, hate speech, prejudice and persecution. This year will be the 80th anniversary…
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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…
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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,…
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“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…
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Volcano Theatre, Swansea | 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…
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‘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…
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I was so pleased to have an opportunity to have a solo exhibition at Llantarnam Grange. It is mainly drawings; an exhibition of four new and previously unseen series of drawings, together with a new tissue paper construction, The Dancing Bride. Drawing is the initial part of the making process for me. I sit at…
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“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.
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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…
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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…
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