Trained at Glasgow School of Art, The Royal College and graduated from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2011. Currently, he is a lecturer in Fine Art in Newcastle University.
Working largely with performance, Bailey tries to rethink conventional approaches to assembling and recounting history. Working with texts, video fragments, and choreographies either composed himself or strategically plundered from elsewhere. These works propose a historiographic model that acknowledges doubt, subjectivity, and reduction as inevitable factors when making sense of past events. Sceptical of the idea of an authentic account he looks to the fractured, incomplete, multilayered, and apparently democratic nature of contemporary mediations of information (via a web browser for example) as a tool to structure them and inform the college of their composition.

Recent exhibitions and performances include: OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich; Transmission Gallery, Glasgow; Presidio County Courthouse Marfa, Texas; CAGE, New York; Brittania Hotel for Seven Sites, Manchester; Van Horbourg, Basel; Leeds University, Leeds; Unit 4, London; Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck; Fake or Feint, Berlin; and, Chisenhale Gallery, London.