Albert Irvin
Having studied at the Northampton School of Art during World War Two, and Goldsmiths College afterwards (serving as an RAF navigator in the war itself) Albert Irvin set about on his career as an abstract expressionist painter which gained him wide-ranging acknowledgements. He was admitted to the Royal Academy in 1998 and his works have been displayed there regularly.
All of the prints below are available from the Linton Court Gallery. Please contact the gallery for more information.
Biographical Information
1922 Born London
1940 Student at Northampton School of Art
1941 Joined Royal Air Force to become Navigator
1946-1950 Student at Goldsmiths' College, London
1962-1983 Teaching at Goldsmiths' College, London
1968 Arts Council Award to visit USA
1975 Arts Council Major Award
1982 Gulbenkian Award for Printmaking
1986 Giles Bequest Prize at Bradford Print Biennale
1987 Painting commissioned by Homerton Hospital, Hackney, London
1995 Painting commissioned by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
1998 'Albert Irvin- Life to Painting', monograph written by Paul Moorhouse, published by Lund Humphries
Elected Senior Royal Academician
Lives and works in London
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SINCE 1980)
1980 Acme Gallery, London; Bede Gallery, Jarrow
1981 Manchester Polytechnic Gallery
1982 Gimpel Fils, London; Goldsmiths' College Gallery, London
1983 Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; Aberdeen Art Gallery; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1985 Coventry Gallery, Sydney; Butler Gallery, Kilkenny; Arcade Gallery, Harrogate
1986 Gimpel Fils, London; Hendriks Gallery, Dublin
1987 & 1989 Carine Campo Gallery, Antwerp
1988 Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York
1989 Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
1990 Gimpel Fils, London; Serpentine Gallery, London - toured Spacex Gallery, Exeter and Oriel and Chapter, Cardiff; Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Gallery Monochrome Brussels
1991 Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University; Playhouse Gallery, Harlow; Flowers East, London
1992 Galeria Punto, Valencia, Spain; Galerie Lupke, Frankfurt; Gimpel Fils, London;
1993 Campo Vlaamse Kaai, Antwerp: Bodilly Gallery, Cambridge; Flowers Graphics, London
1994 Gimpel Fils, London; Powell Moya Partnership, London; Chapter Gallery, Cardiff; Wasserman Galerie, Munich; Woodlands Art Gallery, London
1995 RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin; Original Print Gallery, Dublin
1996 Atkinson Gallery, Somerset; Oriel Theatre, Clwyd; Gimpel Fils, London
1997 Cambridge Contemporary Art; Galerie Stuhler, Berlin; Galerie Wassermann, Munich
1998 Dean Clough, Halifax; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Meymac; Edwin Scharff Haus, Neu Ulm; Vonderau Museum, Fulda; Galerie Markt, Bruckmuhl; 'Retrospective Print Exhibition 1980-1998', B206-The Gallery, Advanced Graphics London; Gimpel Fils, London
1999 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; Orion Gallery Brussels
2000 'A celebration of twenty years of printmaking', Advanced Graphics London
2001 Riverstation, Bristol; 'Paintings and Prints 1991-2001' West Cork Arts Centre, Ireland
2002 'Four Score' Gimpel Fils, London; 'Prints', Advanced Graphics London; 'Malerei', Galerie Stuhler, Berlin
2003 'Albert Irvin - Paintings and Prints', Storey Gallery and Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster; 'Recent Paintings', Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin
2004 'Midsummer', Gimpel Fils, London
2005 'New Monoprints and Editions', Advanced Graphics London
2006 'Recent Paintings', Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin
2007 'Urban Journey', Gimpel Fils, London
2008 'Recent Paintings', Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin
'Six Paintings', Kings Place Gallery, London
'A Retrospective', Kings Place Gallery, London
'The Nebraska Suite', Advanced Graphics London
2009 'A Retrospective', University Gallery and
Baring Wing, Northumbria University
'Peintures Récentes', Galerie Gimpel and Müller, Paris
SELECTED RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SINCE 1990)
1991-1993 Courtauld Institute Loan Collection
1991 & 1995 John Moores, Liverpool
1991 Bradford Print Biennale, Royal College of Art, London; Goldsmiths' College Centenary Exhibition, London (Selector); Peter Stuyvesant Collection; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; 'European Large Format Printmaking', Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
1993 'Hoyland & Irvin Prints', CCA Galleries, London; Flowers East Gallery, London;
Byker Art Show, Newcastle
1994 'Here and Now', Serpentine Gallery, London; 'Painters and Prints I', Curwen Gallery, London;
'Contemporary Prints', Flowers Graphics, London; 'British Abstract Art - Part 1- Painting', Flowers East,
London; Castlefield 10th Anniversary, Castlefield Gallery and Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
1995 Cabinet Art, Jason and Rhodes, London
1996 'Small is Beautiful', Flowers East, London; International Print Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, Oregon
1996-2009 Various Art Fairs and Exhibitions represented by Advanced Graphics London including:
London Art Fair, Islington, London; Contemporary Print Show, Barbican Centre, London; London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Art on Paper, Royal College of Art, London; Glasgow Art Fair, George Square, Glasgow; 20/21 British Art Fair, The Royal College of Art and the Commonwealth Institute; The Print Fair, IFPDA Members, The Armory Center, New York; Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1997 Open Print Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (invited artist)
1998 'The Discerning Eye', Mall Galleries, London; '25 Years of the Visual Arts', Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
2000 'New Publications', Advanced Graphics London; 'Yellow', Advanced Graphics London; 'Short Series : British Contemporaries', Trinity Art Centre, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; 'Local Colour', Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk; 'Contemporary Prints from Advanced Graphics London', Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow; '5 British Abstract Painters', Flowers West, Santa Monica, California; 'Leading British Artists from Advanced Graphics', The Original Print Gallery, Dublin
2001 'The London Group', The Walk Gallery, London; 'Creative Quarters- the art world in London 1700-2000' The Museum of London; 'Abstract Paintings and Prints', Neil Canning, John Hoyland, Albert Irvin, Advanced Graphics London; Kilkenny Arts Festival 2001, Kilkenny, Ireland; 'In Print', Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; 'Paintings and Prints by six Royal Academicians', Curwen Gallery, London
2002 'In Colour....Abstract Prints', Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
2003 'London Calling: Screenprints from Advanced Graphics London', Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow; 'Creekside - Nine Royal Academicians', Advanced Graphics London; 'Advanced Graphics Print Exhibition', West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen; 'Sandra Blow, Geoffrey Clarke, Terry Frost and Albert Irvin', Thompson's, London; 'Pictures at an Exhibition', in aid of Paintings in Hospitals, Tate Britain, London; 'Winter Print Fair', Friend's Room, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2004 'New Publications 2004', Advanced Graphics London; Annual Exhibition, Royal Society of Painter- Printmakers (selected by Bob Saich Hon RE)
2006 'Made in England', Prints from Advanced Graphics London, Original Print Gallery, Dublin
'Monoprints', with Albert Irvin and Neil Canning, Advanced Graphics London
'Prints from Advanced Graphics London', Friend’s Room, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2007 'Prints from Advanced Graphics London', Deutsche Bank, London
2008 'Prints from Royal Academcians', Compass Gallery, Glasgow (in collaboration with Advanced Graphics)
'The Colour Show', Hiltonyoung, Penzance, Cornwall
2009 'Collectors Prints', Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames (in collaboration with Advanced Graphics London)
'Frost and Irvin', two person show with Anthony Frost, Gallagher and Turner, Newcastle upon Tyne
SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Aberdeen Art Gallery; Anglo American plc, London; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Arthur Andersen, London; Arts Council of Great Britain; British Council; Chase Manhatten Bank; Chelsea and Westminster Hospital; Clipstream, London; Contemporary Art Society; Deutsche Bank, London and Frankfurt; Goverment Art Collection; Irish Museum of Modern Art; Mobil Oil; National Westminster Bank; Pensecola Museum, Florida; Schindler Collection, Zurich; Stuyvesant Collection, Holland; Tate Gallery, London; Unilever; Victoria and Albert Museum; City Art Galleries in Birmingham, Blackburn, Huddersfield, Manchester, Stoke and Wolverhampton; University Art Galleries/Collections in Cambridge (Jesus College, Churchill College), Dublin (Trinity College), Lancaster, Liverpool, Northumbria, Oxford (St Johns College), Southampton, Warwick and Woolongong, Australia