Looking For Orion
Subtitle: Rowan Gillespie
Publisher: O'Brien Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Dublin
ISBN-13: 9781847170767
Subjects: Biography
Genres: Art
First sentence: Rowan Fergus Meredith Gillespie was born in Dublin in 1953 but moved to Cyprus a few months later with his Irish Quaker parents, Jack and Moira, elder brother John and sister Lorraine.
Description: A fascinating glimpse into the world of renowned Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie, by his close friend Roger Kohn, whose stature in the international art scene has grown immensely in recent years. A highly illustrated, sensitively designed large format, 160 page book. It provides an insight to the creative process as well as an alluring catalogue of Rowan’s work. Includes a detailed biography of the artist and discusses his idiosyncratic bronze-casting techniques in depth.
Published in 2007 by O'Brien Press in Dublin to coincide with the unveiling of the sculpture 'Proclamation', opposite Kilmainham Gaol.
Table of contents: title: Preface; Foreword; Salad Days; York; The Montague Interludes; Call of the Northlands; Return to the Emerald Isle; Under Pressure; Modus Operandi; The ‘Lost Wax’ Process; Mixed Media; In the Public Domain; The Megalithic Period; Pagan Exuberance; Waiting for Beckett; Yeats; The Kiss; The Eternal Question; Land of the Free, Home of the Brave; The Cycle of Life    The Muse; Introspection; Aspiration; Solon’s Law; Enigma; Pater and Ned; Famine; After the Famine; Birdy; Homage; Ambition; Homage to Bosch; Ripples of Ulysses; Looking at the Moon and Looking to Sea; Hate and Hop­e; The Dutch Dolmen; Men of Iron; Click; Christ; Looking Together; Looking for Orion; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Migrants; Proclamation; In Conclusion; Curriculum Vitae