It was 1989. I had only been in post as Community Arts Officer, based at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum for a few months and found myself involved in the organisation of a festival. I shared an office with Dawn Phillips, who was the Education Officer and I was finding my way, creating…
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Image: Loughor Tryst, Woodcut. Festival Print by William Brown. Gorseinon Community Arts Festival was a short lived series of annual events but were important in allowing an opportunity to profile important artists and makers and to involve the local schools, businesses and community venues. I was asked by Gorseinon Community Council to talk to them…
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Keith Bayliss was both exhibiting artist at St Davids Festival of Music and the Arts, and the Festival’s visual arts exhibition organiser from 2008 – 2014. During this time, he programmed work by artists including Claire Curneen, Tony Goble, Rozanne Hawksley, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Sally Moore and Roger Moss.
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The Swansea Festival of Czech and Slovak Surrealism 1998 – to give it its full title – had its beginnings in The Visual Word exhibition, in that I was able to find the finances to bring over the Czech poet Josef Janda to read both in Cardiff and Swansea as part of a programme of…
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Image: Portrait of Keith Bayliss in studio with ‘Dreaming Awake’ exhibition work. Photograph by Bernard Mitchell. Wales has a good share of narrative artists. We seem to be a natural home for this form of visual story-telling. It was a conversation one afternoon with my friend Malcolm Parr that revolved around the premise that the…
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Intimate Portraits was born of the idea that each artist no matter what their subject matter or medium is present in their work. They cannot escape leaving something of themselves in the art they produce. It is still possible, given the appropriate conditions, that is, an artist with an idea and a friendly gallery, that…
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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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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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