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For this exhibition Keith Bayliss created a site specific environment containing half life size figurative constructions in painted tissue and wood, large scale paintings and with his son Joe Bayliss, a sound landscape as an integral and complimentary part of the environment.

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Keith responds to several themes that have occupied his artwork for some time, the themes of Love, Loss and Need.

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In a society that has moved away from individual and collective use of places of religious celebration and personal contemplation, we see a daily increase in make-shift memorials to lost loved ones and mass emotional responses to the loss of national “personalities”.

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Keith has relished the opportunity to use Mission - a former place of worship and self-exploration to examine our need for the spiritual and create a parallel with his art practice. In his own words,

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“I cannot escape the history of my profession, I am affected by it. I use it as reference, I run to it for support and reassurance and yet much of the imagery in early visual art is of a religious nature and its signs and symbols are not easily accessible. Art provides a scrapbook resource of images removed from our experience, a place of reference but many of us cannot read them. But still they are important. They contain something essential”.

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Mission Gallery