A Bower For Sisters, Aisling O’ Rourke
6pm 9 Dec
At The Library Project
‘A Bower For Sisters’ will be launched in The Library Project at 6pm on the 9th of December 2015. The launch will include a pop-up exhibition of the work and a special guest speaker on the night. Further details to be announced soon.
In ‘A Bower for Sisters’ Aisling O’ Rourke sensitively documents the final few months of Our Lady’s Bower Boarding School and Convent in Athlone, County Westmeath, in the Republic of Ireland, before it closed its doors in June 2014.
In advance of the book launch 100 copies are being sold at the special rate of €21. By pre-ordering ‘A Bower for Sisters’ you are also assisting with the making of this book. To pre-order your copy now go to abowerforsisters.com
All 500 copies will be hand-numbered by the artist and will be delivered in early December.
About the book
First edition of 500 copies
Paperback
80 pages in full colour
168 mm x 220 mm
39 color images
3 tipped-in photo inserts
Insert booklet with text by Aisling O’ Rourke and Gearoid O’Brien
Exposed spine, swiss binding
Munken Lynx 150gsm (book)
Munken Pure Rough90gsm (booklet)
Hand-numbered by the artist
