Simon Bayliss

CV

2018

[Forthcoming video commission] Splash Addict, Big Talk, Projections NE, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle [Forthcoming music release] Splash Addict, Big Talk, Insecure LDN [Forthcoming performance] Splash Addict, Festival of the Not, Circa Projects, Newcastle [Forthcoming exhibition] Christopher Kulendran Thomas, New Eelam: Bristol, in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann and selected artists, Spike Island, Bristol

2018 [solo exhibitions] Meditations in an Emergency, South West Showcase, The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art Kangaroo Beach, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

[Music event] Further Meditations, The Underground, Plymouth in conjunction with Meditations in an Emergency / The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art

[Performances] Splash Addict, in conjunction with Susie Green solo presentation Jerwood Space, London Splash Addict, Groundwork Presents Martin Creed (plus support), Rugby Club, Falmouth Splash Addict, Further Meditations, The Underground, Plymouth Gabber Haiku, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, in conjunction with Kangaroo Beach

[DJ sets] Langaland festival, Dartmoor Where it is there it is, Charlie’s Bar, The Longest Day, Porthmeor studios, St Ives

[Writing] Landscape Painters Anonymous, record for Groundwork online

[Workshops] Landscape Painters Anonymous, Par Beach, for Groundwork Landscape Painters Anonymous, Dartington Estate for Artist Jamboree Landscape Painters Anonymous, Plymouth Hoe for PAC Home, Plymouth Arts Center Haiku workshop, as part of a Cornish Review by RCA writing students, for Groundwork

[Group exhibitions] 41/42, curated by Christopher Green, Unit 2 Thames side studios, London Splash Addict, Outpost members show, selected by The White Pube

[Commission] Studies for UV paintings, Art Licks magazine (Peripheries)

[Awards] Skills Development Award (ceramics), Cultivator, Mentoring award (poetry), Cultivator, Cornwall

[Bibliography] Kangaroo Beach, review by Tom Stockley, artcornwall.org Meditations in an Emergency, essay by Lizzie Lloyd, commissioned by Plymouth College of Art Between Fog, Rocks and Poldark, article by Nina Royle, Art Licks magazine (Peripheries)

2017

[Solo Exhibitions] En plein air paintings & ceramics, The Picture Room & café, Gallery, Cornwall Ceramic Paintings, café - St Ives, curated by Thomas Sutton, in conjunction with That Continuous Thing: Artists and the Ceramics Studio, 1920 - Today

[Group Exhibition] Idea Home, Middlesbrough Institute of (MIMA), Middlesbrough

[Curatorial Project (music / performance)] POP MORPHOSIS, Standpoint Futures residency public event, Chisenhale Studios, London

[Performances] Splash Addict, Fierce Festival, Birmingham Splash Addict, POP MORPHOSIS, Chisenhale Studios, London Splash Addict, Assembly Liverpool, The Royal Standard, Liverpool

[Film Screenings] Splash Addict, NAWKI, CBS Gallery, Eastside Projects ESP, ebc, Focal Point Gallery, HUTT, Ladette Space, Limbo, SERF, SPUR, The White Pube BLISS, Fuck You Wheres My Sugar Cafe Otto, London Leon Bayliss & Simon Bayliss, curated by Force 8, 6 South Street, Bridport

[Poetry Reading] Palace of Culture, in collaboration with Thomas Stockley and the Uncollective, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall

[Residencies] Standpoint Futures at Chisenhale Studios, London Master Class, Zabludowicz Collection, London

[Public Talks] Artist Tea Towel Company, Assembly Liverpool, The Royal Standard, Liverpool Film choice and introduction, Mud and Water Man, Ceramic Contexts symposium, Tate St Ives

[Workshops] Landscape Painters Anonymous fieldtrip, Groundwork, Cornwall, 2017 Landscape Painters Anonymous workshop, Turner Contemporary, 2017 Landscape Painters Anonymous workshop, Re-creation Festival, Rochester Square, London, 2017 Landscape Painters Anonymous drop-in, Shed on Wheels, Plymouth Art Weekender, 2017

[Sound installation] HOW TO SWIM, curated by whatchamacallit, Victoria Baths, Manchester

[Bibliography] Splash Addict interview, The Name of The Next Song

2016

[Solo Exhibitions] Frantic Romantic Eastside Projects - second gallery, Birmingham BLISS (with Lucy Stein) REGRESSION, Kingsgate Workshops, London

[Curatorial Project (music, film & performance)] SAMHAIN, curated by BLISS (Lucy Stein & Simon Bayliss), CAST, , Cornwall

[Perfomance] Splash Addict (with Susie Green), World is Sudden, curated by CIRCA Projects with Giles Bailey, TUSK Fringe, The Old Police House, Gateshead

[Group Exhibitions] My Private Idaho, curated by Rafal Zajko, Chalton Gallery, London Radical Me, curated by Howard Dyke, Tannery Arts, London High-Water, 24 Chapel Street, St Just, Cornwall Uncommon Chemistry, (as BLISS, with Lucy Stein), curated by Dan Howard-Birt, Observer BLD. Hastings

[Film Screenings] Love Immersion by Splash Addict (Susie Green & Simon Bayliss) - All Out of Love, Tate Film Club, curated by Melanie Stidolph, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall Love Immersion by Splash Addict (Susie Green & Simon Bayliss) - World is Sudden curated by CIRCA Projects with Giles Bailey, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival Cornucopia by Leon Bayliss & Simon Bayliss, curated by Force 8, West Bay Methodist Chapel, Dorset

[Curatorial Project] The Voyeurs, an evening of short films, curated by Naomi Frears & Simon Bayliss, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall

[Performance] Live Squirming (Coco de Moll & swimonbaybliss), TOL, an evening of artist performances, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall

[Radio] Squirming the Worm monthly radio show hosted by Coco de Moll (aka. Lucy Stein), produced by swimonbaybliss (aka Simon Bayliss), NTS

[Residency] The Syllabus at Guest Projects, London

[Publications] SWARM Simon Bayliss reports on the event at The Exchange, , Visual Arts South West, artcornwall.org

2015

[Solo Exhibition] Arcadia, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset

[Group Exhibition] 'Ways of Looking' The Syllabus and School of the Damned, Hanover Project, Lancashire

[Residency] Hestercombe Gallery and Gardens, Somerset

[Performance] The Wise Wound curated by Lucy Stein with Tate St Ives, St Ives, Cornwall

[Radio] Squirming the Worm biweekly radio show hosted by Coco de Moll (aka. Lucy Stein), produced by swimonbaybliss (aka Simon Bayliss), NTS

[Film Festival] Cornucopia by Leon Bayliss and Simon Bayliss, Harvest Film Festival, Lower Hewood Farm, Dorset & Open School East, London

[Public Talks] The Rest on the Flight: Sensibility, Contingency, Continuity panel discussion chaired by Dan Howard-Birt, Standpoint, London Landscape Painters Anonymous seminar with Laurent Châtel, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset Landscape Painters Anonymous, talk and fleeting exhibition hosted by Simon Bayliss, CAST, Helston, Cornwall

[Writing] Landscape Painters Anonymous, artcornwall.org Catalogue essay: Danny Fox As He Bowed His Head To Drink, The Redfern Gallery

[Bibliography] Simon Bayliss at Hestercombe, Evolver Magazine, Issue 90. November & December

2014

[Curatorial Project / Group Exhibition] The White Hotel, curated by Lucy Stein & Simon Bayliss, Gimpel Fils, London

[Group Exhibitions] Farm Open, Lower Hewood Farm, Hewood, Dorset The Middle of Everywhere, curated by Dr. Áine Philips, BCA Gallery, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare, Ireland

[Selected Writing] Review: I Cheer a Dead Man’s hero, 21 Painters in Britain, Apollo Magazine ‘The Cornwall Workshop report’, online archive of the 2013 workshop

[Residency] Participant in Critical Writing for the Visual Arts: VASW programme in partnership with the Arvon Foundation, 13 -18th January Totleigh Barton, Devon

[Public Talk] Legendary Jobs and Legendary Stories, Flat Time House, London

[Bibliography] The Principal of Limited Sloppiness, Chats with artists, publication by Nick Davies‘London Round-up 2 (review, The White Hotel , Gimpel Fils), Paul Carey-Kent, Art Monthly: 379, September 2014 Robert Lenkiewicz - work heads to London for a special exhibition (The White Hotel, Gimpel Fils), Plymouth Herald, July 2014 SS Blue Jacket, review by Naomi Frears, Turps Banana, Issue 14

2013

[Group Exhibition / Curatorial Project] SS Blue Jacket, curated by Simon Bayliss & Lucy Stein (catalogue), KARST, Plymouth, Devon

[Selected Writing] SS Blue Jacket, catalogue edited by Simon Bayliss & Lucy Stein, accompanying exhibition, KARST, Plymouth Kitsch or Culture? An examination of the landscape painting phenomena in South West , Nom de Strip, Issue 4, September / October 2013 Review: Marmite Prize for Painting IV, touring exhibition, Nom de Strip, May 2013 Review: Jerwood Painting Fellowships 2013 exhibition, Jerwood Space, London, this is tomorrow Review: The Bride and the Bachelors, Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns, Barbican, London, this is tomorrow

[Public Talk] Simon Bayliss on SS Blue Jacket Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University, hosted by Peninsula Arts

[Residency] Participant in The Cornwall Workshop: weeklong intensive residential workshop for artists, curators and critics, led by Simon Starling, convened by Teresa Gleadowe, Kestle Barton, Cornwall

[Bibliography] SS Blue Jacket, review by Karl Musson, this is tomorrow

2012

[Selected Writing] Painting Highlights from Frieze Art Fair 2012, The Painting Imperative, Issue 6 – Winter 2012/13 Review: A Bigger Splash, Painting After Performance, at , by Simon Bayliss, this is tomorrow, December 2012 Alex Katz and The Penzance Convention: An enquiry into the disparate worlds of painting and social art practice, by Simon Bayliss, The Painting Imperative, Issue 5

[Accolade] A Thousand Living Painters, #643 Simon Bayliss, international survey of the present status of painting, Art Initiative Verfhond, Amsterdam

[Bibliography] The Power of the Fixed image; on ‘Alex Katz and The Penzance Convention', Same Old Art, September 2012

2011

[Group Exhibitions] tête à tête à tête, BCA Gallery, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare, Ireland ‘The State of the Union’, Occupy Space, Limerick City, Ireland [Selected Writing] Review; Gerhard Richter: Panorama, Tate Modern, London, The Painting Imperative, Issue 2 – Winter 2011/12

Education

2015 - 16 The Syllabus, Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, New Contemporaries, S1 Artspace, Spike Island, Studio Voltaire 2009 -11 MFA, Burren College of Art / National University of Ireland, Galway (Scholarship) 2003 - 06 BA(Hons) Fine Art, Falmouth College of Art, Cornwall 2003 Semester study AVU, Prague, Atelier Michael Rittstein