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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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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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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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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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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