La Maison Hauntee / Ty Screch / The Haunted House Keith Bayliss & William Brown, Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea 2006 I miss the seemingly haphazard, anarchic and wonderfully creative phone call conversations with my friend the artist William Brown. William, by his immense enthusiasm to make and exhibit and to be as inclusive as possible, made…
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That is quite a mouthful, Gwyrosydd Biennial Arts, and not easy for the non-Welsh speaker to pronounce. I want to record or set down this project which lasted for six years or more because it was and is for me still a wonderful “model” education project. It’s beginning and final publication was made possible by…
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I spent a very fruitful year organising educational projects at Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen. During that time I met and worked closely with Sophie Hadaway, then Arts Adviser for Carmarthen. Sophie organised a project that would allow us to see a project through from initial meetings with teachers, gallery visit, to the final production of artwork produced…
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The Joseph Herman Residency is one worth choosing as a fine example of what can be explored and achieved through a visual art project. This project was one of the early residencies organised by the Joseph Herman Foundation and took place in two schools over several weeks. One in Penrhos Primary School, just above Herman’s…
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Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran Gallery in a Box is a small “mobile gallery” which aims to engage with schools, community groups and outside events, bringing the work of contemporary artists to those who cannot visit a gallery. The box itself and the work inside was commissioned from twelve artists based in Wales. This gallery…
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Image: Portrait of Tony Goble in his studio by Bernard Mitchell. Somewhere between what we see and what we imagine is the place to be. – Tony Goble. Tony died in 2007. It was an unexpected and tragic event that took a wonderfully able and creative talent from us. There are so many examples of…
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Image: Keith Bayliss & Peter Jonckheere looking at Roger Moss workIn 1995 as part of the UK Festival of Literature, Mission Gallery hosted Poem in October an exhibition I helped bring over from Bruges, Belgium. The exhibition featured work made for the Festival by artists Peter Jonckheere, Hans Eneman and poetry by Marc Braet. Malcolm…
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Mission Gallery 40th Anniversary Celebration, July 2017.Curated by Keith Bayliss and Amanda Roderick Read more
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In 2014, Swansea marked the centenary of its prodigal son, Dylan Thomas’, birth with Dylan Thomas 100, a citywide programme of events. Keith Bayliss was one of the practitioners invited to participate in this month long project at Mission Gallery. A one day ‘residency’ in the space, this was a performance which produced a large…
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The Visual Word exhibition took place in Swansea and Cardiff between August and September 1995 and was part of the UK Year of Literature and Writing, hosted by the City and County of Swansea. Extract from the exhibition magazine: The Visual Word: An Exhibition of Responses is by no means an attempt to represent a…
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