Each exhibition is an opportunity to make new work. This exhibition has been created specifically for the space in which it is displayed.

Yo lo fi/Fe welais i, in part, pays homage to a creative friendship between Keith Bayliss and his long-time friend, the writer and teacher Malcolm Parr, which has proved to be of fundamental importance to the development of the artist. It is also a personal visual response to influences and situations that are currently at play.

The exhibition at MOMA Machynlleth in Wales during May/June 2019 featured four large works in oil on canvas and 11 small figures, together with Shrine – first shown in Susana and the Elders. It incorporates a collaborative sound element produced by the artist’s son the musician Joe Bayliss.

The Tannery at MoMA Machynlleth is a slate stone, square space. The walls have been left as a natural stone surface. For the exhibition Yo Lo Fi/Fe Welais i, it was not the intention to hang in a conventional way. Instead, as far as it was possible, an environment was created where four large paintings provided a central structure around which eight seated “visitors” (paper and wood constructions) would be its audience. Around and through this space would weave the flesh and blood visitors to the show. In the air or ether visitors would hear the soundscape produced by Joe Bayliss.