Gavin O'Keefe
| Gavin L. O'Keefe | |
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| Born | Melbourne, Australia |
| Occupation | illustrator, author |
| Nationality | Australian |
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Gavin L. O'Keefe is an Australian-born book illustrator and designer currently resident in the USA.
Gavin O'Keefe was born in Melbourne and lived in Sydney from the early-1980s to 1990. During that period, his artwork (usually black and white, though sometimes colour) was included in a variety of non-fiction books, science-fiction and horror magazine and other publications. His earliest covers were for books by Australian writers Jacob G. Rosenberg, Alex Skovron, Walter Adamson, and Ian Kennedy Williams.
O'Keefe is a classically trained musician and plays the viola.
O'Keefe's illustrative work has appeared in many literary journals, genre zines and comic books including Aphelion, Crypt of Cthulhu, Culture Magazine (illustrated serial "Down the Rabbit Hole"), Eidolon, Esoterica,Hub, Phantastique, Points ov Departure (Temple ov Psychick Youth), Scarp, Shadowplay, 24 Hours (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), Terror Australis, Theosophy in Australia and Wildfire. He has also provided illustrations for anthologies such as Terror Australis: Best Australian Horror, and for The Australian H.P. Lovecraft Calendar 1990.
He contributed illustrations to Sally B. Boillotat's Polocrosse: Australian Made, Internationally Played (1990). He cover designs appear on Ian Kennedy Williams' Stopping Over (1988), Walter Adamson's The Man With the Suitcase (1989), Roslyn Taylor's Uncle Abe (1989), Peter Coaldrake and J.R. Nethercote's What Should Government Do? (1989) and John Leonard's Contemporary Australian Poetry: An Anthology. (1990)
Other works include Eight Illustrations for the Gormenghast Books by Mervyn Peake. [2]. This was followed in 1995 by O'Keefe's illustrated version of Lewis Carroll's classic The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits [3]. His continued interest in illustrating Carroll is evinced by his 2004 compilation A Snark Selection (Ramble House). [4]
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