13 Facts About Gavin O'Keefe

Gavin L O'Keefe is an Australian-born book illustrator and designer.

Gavin O'Keefe resided in the USA for a number of years, returning to live in Australia in 2018.

Gavin O'Keefe was born in Melbourne and lived in Sydney from the early-1980s to 1990.

Gavin O'Keefe's earliest covers were for books by Australian writers Jacob G Rosenberg, Alex Skovron, Walter Adamson, and Ian Kennedy Williams.

Gavin O'Keefe is a classically trained musician and plays the viola.

Gavin O'Keefe contributed illustrations to Sally B Boillotat's Polocrosse: Australian Made, Internationally Played.

Gavin O'Keefe's continued interest in illustrating Carroll is evinced by his 2004 compilation A Snark Selection.

Gavin O'Keefe's illustrations are stark black and white drawings which have some of the foreboding one expects in Edgar Allan Poe.

Gavin O'Keefe has a longstanding interest in the art of Australian painters Norma Bull and Vali Myers.

Gavin O'Keefe has written essays on writers and artists, such as "Sita and Salome: A Short Comparative Look at the Art of Aubrey Beardsley and Mervyn Peake" in Peake Studies 2, No 3 and "Alice's Odyssey in Oz", Oz Arts 7.

Gavin O'Keefe has illustrated Philip Jose Farmer's The Green Odyssey and Love Song, William Blake's An Island in the Moon, Aleister Crowley's The Poem and Leanne Frahm's Borderline.

Gavin O'Keefe designed the cover for the Lovecraftian novel Marblehead by Richard A Lupoff, published by Ramble House[5], and cover designs for the novels of Harry Stephen Keeler.

Gavin O'Keefe is currently working on a third illustrated edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, this time in 'radioactive' colour.