Rowan Fergus Meredith Gillespie (1953) is an Irish bronze casting sculptor of international renown. Born in Dublin to Irish parents, Gillespie spent his formative years in Cyprus.
From conception to creation, he works alone in his purpose-built bronze casting foundry. This is one of the things that make him unique among the bronze casting community. Influenced by the sculptor Henry Moore and the painter Edvard Munch, Gillespie uses the lost wax casting process to portray human emotions. Having worked almost exclusively on site specific art since 1996, Gillespie's public works can be found in his native Ireland, Europe, the United States and Canada.
From 1978 to 1986, he held many successful exhibitions in Ireland and Holland. His work also traveled to exhibitions in York, Belfast, New York, Cannes, Los Angeles, Stockholm and Moscow.
From 1982 he regularly exhibited in group exhibitions, art fairs and theme exhibitions in Ireland, France, Holland, USA and England, including Recontre avec des Sculpteurs Europeens, Pan Amsterdam, Royal Hibernian Academy, Art Expo New York, Art Toronto, Puck New York, BCAF, ICAF London and Art Miami.
In 1989 he decided to concentrate solely on site specific work which resulted in a number of major public sculptures commissions, initially in Ireland then around the world. He has, as yet, never returned to exhibition work.
Proclamation in Dublin, a personal tribute to his grandfather James Creed Meredith, commemorates those who were executed in Kilmainham Jail in 1916. Titanica remembers those who died on the Titanic.
John Hughes in Manhattan, Johnny Kilbane in Cleveland, James Joyce in Denver and Dublin and William Orpen are among his Irish Giants, they tell a mainly male story of staggering success in a life time. The female story is quite different, from convict women sent to Tasmania in Footsteps to the aspiration that women should achieve equality and freedom in the series A Woman.
Rowan Gillespie would be unique as a sculptor in that he works totally alone, has his own one man foundry and personally carries out every aspect of the work from conception to installation.
© 2019. All images are copyrighted © by Rowan Gillespie. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
From conception to creation, he works alone in his purpose-built bronze casting foundry. This is one of the things that make him unique among the bronze casting community. Influenced by the sculptor Henry Moore and the painter Edvard Munch, Gillespie uses the lost wax casting process to portray human emotions. Having worked almost exclusively on site specific art since 1996, Gillespie's public works can be found in his native Ireland, Europe, the United States and Canada.
From 1978 to 1986, he held many successful exhibitions in Ireland and Holland. His work also traveled to exhibitions in York, Belfast, New York, Cannes, Los Angeles, Stockholm and Moscow.
From 1982 he regularly exhibited in group exhibitions, art fairs and theme exhibitions in Ireland, France, Holland, USA and England, including Recontre avec des Sculpteurs Europeens, Pan Amsterdam, Royal Hibernian Academy, Art Expo New York, Art Toronto, Puck New York, BCAF, ICAF London and Art Miami.
In 1989 he decided to concentrate solely on site specific work which resulted in a number of major public sculptures commissions, initially in Ireland then around the world. He has, as yet, never returned to exhibition work.
Proclamation in Dublin, a personal tribute to his grandfather James Creed Meredith, commemorates those who were executed in Kilmainham Jail in 1916. Titanica remembers those who died on the Titanic.
John Hughes in Manhattan, Johnny Kilbane in Cleveland, James Joyce in Denver and Dublin and William Orpen are among his Irish Giants, they tell a mainly male story of staggering success in a life time. The female story is quite different, from convict women sent to Tasmania in Footsteps to the aspiration that women should achieve equality and freedom in the series A Woman.
Rowan Gillespie would be unique as a sculptor in that he works totally alone, has his own one man foundry and personally carries out every aspect of the work from conception to installation.
© 2019. All images are copyrighted © by Rowan Gillespie. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
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| Mr Rowan Gillespie |
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| The studio |
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| 1979, Birdy, Dublin |
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| 1981, Lovers |
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| 1988, Blackrock Dolmen, Dublin |
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| 1990, Cashel Dancers, Cashel |
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| 1990, The Kiss, Dublin |
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| 1990, W B Yeats, Sligo |
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| 1991, Cycle of Life, Steamboat Springs |
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| 1995, Aspiration, Dublin |
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| 1997, Famine, Dublin |
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| 1997, Famine, Dublin |
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| 1997, Famine, Dublin |
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| 2000, Hate and Hope |
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| 2000, James Joyce, Ripples of Uylsess, Regis University, Denver |
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| 2002, Ireland Park, Toronto |
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| 2002, Men of Iron, Steamboat Springs |
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| 2002, Migrants, Ireland Park, Toronto |
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| 2002, Migrants, Ireland Park, Toronto |
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| 2002, Migrants, Ireland Park, Toronto |
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| 2003, Jesus, Kylemore Abbey |
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| 2004, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Denver, Colorado |
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| 2007, Proclamation, Dublin |
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| 2009, L’Eta de la Donna, Treviso, Italy |
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| 2009, L’Eta de la Donna, Treviso, Italy |
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| 2010, Jersey Girl, St Helier |
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| 2012, Titanica, Belfast |
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| 2012, Titanica, Belfast |
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| 2012, Titanica, Belfast |
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| 2013, Judgement, Dublin |
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| 2013, Solstice, Wexford County Council |
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| 2013, Solstice, Wexford County Council |
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| 2014, Famine, Custom House Quay in Dublin |
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| 2015, Dagger John, New York |
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| 2015, When Hope and History Rhyme |
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| 2016, Ibiza Twenty Sixteen |
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| 2016, Ibiza Twenty Sixteen |
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| 2016, Ibiza Twenty Sixteen |
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| 2017, Footsteps Hunter Island, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
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| 2017, Footsteps Hunter Island, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
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| 2017, Footsteps Hunter Island, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
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| 2017, Footsteps Hunter Island, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
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| 2018, Sir William Orpen, in artist’s workshop |
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| 2018, Sir William Orpen, in artist’s workshop |
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| Ages of Man, Las Vegas |
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| Dreamers, Antwerp |
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| Lazy Lady, Schaan |
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| Lust, Vaduz |
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| Lust, Vaduz |
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| Paddy Maloney, Private Collection, Chicago |
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| Secret Lovers, Zurich |
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| The Irish Nobel Laureates, Boston College |
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| The Minstrels, Denver |
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| Turlough O’Carolan, Private Collection, Chicago |
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| Turlough O’Carolan, Private Collection, Chicago |
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