Liam Broin (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Pamphlet.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 49 pp. Illustrated. Light wear. Else very good.

Condition: As New. . paperback.

Condition: As New. . paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Limited to 350 copies of this is no. 33. Signed and numbered by the author. Loose leaf prints of 6 of the plates have been enclosed. Book and prints near fine. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Clean tight copy of the book. Dustjacket has a couple of scuffs which have been masked by small pieces of tape. Six prints of illustrations in the book laid in at the rear. This is a heavy book and we will request extra postage if ordered from outside the UK. B00003143.

21 cm x 30 cm. 108 pages. 42 reproductions of pencilled throughout volume. Map of the River Boyne are near front. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Beautifully illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. Near fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior very bright and clean. Signed by the author/artist on the titlepage. Name of pre-owner verso endpaper. Includes, for example, the following: Drogheda - A History / St. Laurence's Gate / The Tholsel from Laurence Street / St Peter's Church of Ireland Churchyard / The Courthouse, Fair Street / Newgrange / Oldbridge / St Mary's Roman Catholic Church / 'The 101 Steps' / The Viaduct / Mussel Raking / Salmon Netting / Beaulieu / Bibliography / Index etc. Liam Ó Broin born 1944. Some of his work have been acquired for the National Collection (Office of Public Works) and work has also been purchased by the Arts Council of Ireland, The Butler Collection Kilkenny and Trinity College Dublin Contemporary Art Collection. He has worked in several media over the last forty yearsfirstly in printmaking at Graphic Studio Dublin from 1970, eventually moving to teaching art having graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 1978. Ó Broin studied tapestry weaving at the National College of Art and Design and he subsequently won the Scott-Tallon-Walker prize for a woven tapestry St. Brendan at the Oireachteas exhibition in 1980. He also worked with the artist Partick Pye on two woven pieces designed by Pye in the 1980's and worked for a time at the Dublin Art Foundry on several of his own bronze pieces in the lost wax technique. In the 1970's he also took up painting. Ó Broin exhibited regularly at the Oireachteas Art exhibitions in the 1980's and also exhibited with the Independent Artists group. In 1982 he held a joint exhibition at Kilkenny Design Dublin with the potter Geoffrey Healy, of decorated plates and jars based on the Song of Songs. He has regularly exhibited in recent group shows at Graphic Studio Gallery Dublin, with Leinster Printmakers Clane, Kenny Gallery Galway and the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo. (Source: Personal website of Author/Artist) Sprache: english.