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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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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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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Image: Angel for Serbia. Card Relief Print, 2010. In 2010, out of the blue came an invitation to participate in the first Serbian Printmaking Triennial. I rarely pass up an opportunity to show work and I fully intended to do so. On this occasion I sent two prints and was accepted for showing. The final show…
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