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…
Read MoreEarly Drawings & First Solo Show
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…
Read MoreLyrical One: Dylan Thomas 100
In 2014, Swansea marked the centenary of its prodigal son, Dylan Thomas’, birth with Dylan Thomas 100, a citywide programme of events. Keith Bayliss was one of the practitioners invited to participate in this month long project at Mission Gallery. A one day ‘residency’ in the space, this was a performance which produced a large…
Read MoreVenus Drawings
Although for me Venus was an exhibition of constructions I find myself drawing – in this case on small pieces of 6cm square paper in pen and ink – musing on the figures that could surround such a figure. I return again to small male/female faces. As with most periods of drawing I will sit…
Read MoreSerbian Printmaking Triennial
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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