Field of Souls Exhibition at y Gaer Art Gallery

Y Gaer proudly hosts a Keith Bayliss exhibition 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 at a collaboration concerning aspects of loss. It proved a timely conversation, its topic soon become very relevant.

Several themes preoccupy Keith’s work. Love, loss, and the idea of the individual, a “Wandering Soul” journeying through life, facing adversity, looking for solace, looking for consolation. Here he responds to this theme by creating an environment, a “home”, and a place where the soul can exist and grow free from anguish, conflict and tragedy, a place of rest, a place of peace - a sanctuary.

“We are lost, we are adrift…” as the artist stated in his exhibition - Hortus Conclusus/The Enclosed Garden - at Mission Gallery, Swansea in 2012, where he first collaborated with his son Joseph. This exhibition is a seminal experience. Here, in this exhibition, Keith has found an opportunity to create a place of peace, where we are not adrift, where we are not lost.

A home for the Souls of the world - his Maes Eneidiau /Field of Souls. 

The exhibition will run until 15th September 2024, in y Gaer’s Art Gallery, Brecon.