Keith Bayliss

I am a Welshman, born in Swansea, South Wales, U.K. in 1954. I studied at Swansea Art College and at Sheffield City Polytechnic, graduating with a B.A.(hons) Fine Art in 1977. 

I seem to have had several lives, working as a technical Instructor in an Occupational Therapy Department of the Local Psychiatric Hospital. Also teaching in the evenings at a local Further Education College. Following this I developed the Community Art Service for the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, and at the same time involved myself in working as an artist in schools. I became free-lance 1991 and many of the projects I have undertaken since then as Keith Bayliss Arts Services.

I have devised numerous school and community projects, festivals (including the first Ceri Richards Festival  in 1990 and the Ceri Richards Centenary Festival in 2003) and workshop programmes. I have worked in all areas of education, the elderly, special needs and those with disability.

I have developed and co-ordinated numerous exhibitions, including:

The Festival of Czech & Slovak Surrealists, 1998, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Mission Gallery & Taliesin Arts Centre, University of Wales, Swansea.

Dreaming Awake exhibition tour of the Czech Republic Group show; Keith Bayliss, William Brown, Tony Goble, Iwan Bala, Roger Moss, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Jaroslav Mykisa and photographer Bernard Mitchell.

Poem in October - Two Belgian Artists and a Writer, Swansea 1995  as part of the U.K. Festival of Literature.

Intimate Portraits,  Group show Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, touring to Oriel Mostyn.

The Visual Word: An exhibition of Responses. Swansea Arts Workshop & Old Library, Cardiff. Part of the U.K. Festival of Literature.

Lubomir Pesek & Ivan Bukovsky exhibition of two Czech artists and poetry reading by Josef Janda at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, January 2004.

Michal Macku - Gellage photographs by Czech photographer, Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, March, 2004.

Petr Jochmann paintings and drawings. A Moravian cultural programme including poetry by Mojmir Vrba & Stanislav Denk and the Vaclava Hastika folk band and dance. In association with the Caesar Gallery, Olomouc, Czech Republic. 

In Coversation with Dr Peter Wakelin at the Deanery, St. David's Cathedral as part of the 2009 festival programme.

Tony Goble Passionate Pilgrim Swansea Festival exhibition 2008 at the Ceri Richards Gallery, Taliesin Arts Centre, University, Swansea. An exhibition paintings and drawings by my friend and colleague Tony Goble, with personal responses by friends and colleagues. Touring to St David's Cathedral Festival & MOMA Tabernacle, Machynlleth as the 2009 Festival exhibition.  

Just William It was my pleasure to co-curate an exhibition at St. David's Hall Cardiff in 2009 to celebrate the life and work of my friend the Scots-Canadian (and honorary Welshman) William Brown