Art Central Gallery in Barry, South Wales is presenting its 18th Holocaust Memorial Day Exhibition from 18th January to 22nd February 2025. Monday 27th of January 2025, will be Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) where many remember a scarred world sadly drenched in racism, hate speech, prejudice and persecution. This year will be the 80th anniversary…
Read MoreMrs Punch
During lockdown, which enabled an intense, extended period of making and drawing, a mixed media 3D construction took shape that was a development of several ideas I had been pursuing. Influenced by 18th and 19th century satirical marionettes, portable booths, puppets and automata, a female figure appeared which seemed to be a one off. Standing wearing a striped…
Read MoreYo lo fi / Fe welais i
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…
Read MoreSwsana and The Elders
Oriel Q, Narbeth: January 2016. This subject has fascinated artists for centuries – the story is an old and sadly continuing one. Aspects of its drama are enacted in some form each day with sometimes tragic consequences. A painting titled ‘Swsana’, produced many years ago by the artist was the starting point for this exhibition. The…
Read MoreShrine
We are lost, spiritually adrift. We inhabit a world of road side shrines and makeshift memorials. Art provides a scrapbook resource of images removed from our experience, a place of reference but many of us cannot read them. But still they are important. They contain something essential. Keith Bayliss, 2011 Shrines are appearing everywhere.…
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