Y Gaer, Art Gallery & Museum, Brecon | 29th June 15th September 2024.In collaboration with David Thomas (words) and Joe Bayliss (sound) In late 2019, prompted by an ongoing group of drawings he was making, visual artist Keith Bayliss offered an idea to his friend and long-time collaborator, the poet David Thomas, that they look…
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Play Is a Roomy Subject is an international exhibition, featuring works from Welsh and Canada-based artists, held at the University of Ottawa. The show variously explores metaphorical dynamics of play and care within space and relationships. Relationships, be that on an individual scale, or within communities and collectives, or even between humans and their environment,…
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Drawings in ink on paper, 2021 These drawings in ink on paper are an ongoing series which have come from 2020/21 and the atmosphere of worry and fear and sadness that inhabits the world in which we live. But my response is to use old and familiar characters, a bird, a floating head, the Moon…
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Drawings in ink on paper, 2021 Some ideas come out of the blue or the darkness. At least it seems that way. The name Proserpina came to me, the memory of something read and vaguely remembered. A consequence of a year or more working on ideas borne of the sad time we are experiencing. Proserpina…
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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…
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Image: Epona, Oil on Canvas, 153x122cm. I approach painting, usually in oil, on primed or un-primed paper or primed canvas, with the slightest and minimal amount of planning. I prefer to allow the idea to develop on the canvas. Two figures can become one dominant character or one character can find itself in the company…
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Above: Yo Lo Fi 1 Oil on Canvas 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 my intention to hang in a conventional way. I wanted, as far as it was…
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Mission Gallery has been transformed by the artist. Its geometry and light will never seem quite the same again, filled as it has been with shining presences and the flight-paths of angels. I can’t help but feel that Keith’s work will remain long after the exhibition has gone, the memories of it imprinted on the…
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Drawing for me is the first port of call for the expression of an idea. I use it in two ways, the roughest setting out and examination of an idea or as a finished work worthy of exhibition. I tend to make drawings on a theme in batches. Cutting a small pile of paper to…
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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…
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