Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran Gallery in a Box is a small “mobile gallery” which aims to engage with schools, community groups and outside events, bringing the work of contemporary artists to those who cannot visit a gallery. The box itself and the work inside was commissioned from twelve artists based in Wales. This gallery…
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Image: Portrait of Tony Goble in his studio by Bernard Mitchell. Somewhere between what we see and what we imagine is the place to be. – Tony Goble. Tony died in 2007. It was an unexpected and tragic event that took a wonderfully able and creative talent from us. There are so many examples of…
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“… this wonderful place, this Cathedral in a village so far west that it is where Wales meets the sea, this awe-inspiring building in which the Nave slopes upwards towards the Altar…” The Old Stile Press Keith Bayliss was commissioned to produce work in and around the east end of St David’s Cathedral during its…
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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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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…
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Mission Gallery 40th Anniversary Celebration, July 2017.Curated by Keith Bayliss and Amanda Roderick Read more
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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…
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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…
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