These drawings in ink on paper were produced as a second response (the first was many years earlier in 1980 in pencil and gouache), now with Bernard Mitchell, to a translation by Malcolm Parr of Marcel Schwob’s version of The Children’s Crusade. These drawings formed the starting point for prompting the Old Stile Press to…
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A National Waterfront Museum Residency, in partnership with Mission Gallery Swansea It was a great pleasure to be invited by The National Waterfront Museum in association with Mission Gallery, Swansea, to set up a studio alongside the Stanhope Letter Press. I spent the month of February 2013 producing over thirty preliminary drawings in pencil and…
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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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“… this wonderful place, this Cathedral in a village so far west that it is where Wales meets the sea, this awe-inspiring building in which the Nave slopes upwards towards the Altar…” The Old Stile Press Keith Bayliss was commissioned to produce work in and around the east end of St David’s Cathedral during its…
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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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Image: Janette My first exhibition in 1980 took place four years after graduating at Swansea Arts Workshop (now Mission Gallery). This was a gallery and studio spaces organised by the Swansea Branch of the Association of Artists and Designers in Wales. It was an artist run venture and I was one of the younger members…
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