Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY
Albert Irvin OBE RA was a master of many mediums from painting in gouache to watercolours and screenprints all engaging
his signature broad expressionistic strokes. Irvin was British, first studying at Northampton School of Art from 1940 to 1941
before stepping away from his career as an artist to serve as a navigator in the RAF during World War II. The war concluded and
Irvin enrolled in the Design course at Goldsmiths College in 1946, where he returned in 1962 to teach.
After graduating with a National Diploma, Irvin was torn between abstract and gurative modes of representation; it was not
until the mid-1950s that he moved away from leaning on gures and social realism and embraced a more radical approach closer
to metaphor and abstraction. Since releasing himself from the canonical shackles which hailed sombre and dark works of art as
unique in achieving a sense of gravitas, Irvin was able to use saturated colours to infuse his works with a compelling and forceful
voice. Irvin embarked on a period of screenprinting in 1980 with Advanced Graphics London.
Irvin was elected to e London Group in 1955, followed by his rst solo exhibition in 1960 at 57 Gallery, London. He was awarded
a Travel Award to America by the Arts Council in 1968, received an Arts Council Major Award in 1975 and a Gulbenkian Award
for printmaking in 1983. A major retrospective of Irvin’s work was held at the Serpentine Gallery in 1990 and he continued to
exhibit regularly at Gimpel Fils both in London. Made both a Royal Academician in 1998 and appointed Officer of the Order
of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to the visual arts, Irvin has an affirmed reputation of
being one of Britain’s foremost printmakers. His works have been exhibited extensively even after his passing.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 University Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
2012 Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
2012 University Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
2011 Sir Hugh Casson Room for Friends, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
2011 Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin, United Kingdom
2010 Gimpel Fils, London, United Kingdom
2010 King’s Place, London, United Kingdom
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Monuments, Hales Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2023 Retro Finds, Clifton Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom
2023 Mendes & Co. (Deceased) | Hugh Mendes, Bram Bogart, Alan Davie, Elisabeth Frink, Albert Irvin, Auguste Rodin, Mario
Schifano, Andy Warhol, Charlie Smith, London, United Kingdom
2023 Mendes & Co. (Deceased), James Freeman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2022 Fundraising Art Collection In Aid Of The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis, Tanya Baxter Contemporary, London, United
Kingdom
2022 Group Exhibition, Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom
2021 Winter Show, Zuleika Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2018 Christmas pop-up, Robert Eagle Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
2018 Chelsea Special, Robert Eagle Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
2018 Albert Irvin and John Golding: Celebrating 10 Years at Kings Place, Piano Nobile, London, United Kingdom
2018 Aspects of British Abstraction, Whitford Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
2017 Christmas Exhibition at the Stafford Hotel, London, Tanya Baxter Contemporary, London, United Kingdom
2015 Prisms Of British Art, Galerie Frank Pages, Switzerland
2010 Come to Richmond, The Richmond Hill Gallery, Surrey, United Kingdom
2010 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom
2010 Colour is the Keyboard, Gimpel Fils, London, United Kingdom
2009 Open Exhibition, The London Group, London, United Kingdom
2009 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom
2008 The Colour Show, Hilton Young Fine Art, Penzance, United Kingdom
2006 Summer Exhibition, Lemon Street Gallery, Cornwall, United Kingdom
2006 Realités Nouvelles, Paris, France
2006 Painting by Other Means: Non-figurative works from the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Oriel Mostyn
Gallery, Wales, United Kingdom
2005 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom
2005 1979, Bloomberg SPACE, London, United Kingdom
2005 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom
2004 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom
2004 174th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2004 Tracing the Land, Gimpel Fils, London, United Kingdom
2003 The London Group, Peter Clossick at The Gallery in Cork Street, London, United Kingdom
2003 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom
2003 Cabinet Paintings, Compass Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2001-2 Square Root, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2001 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom
2001 Selection from Collection of Royal Bank of Scotland, City Art Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2001 Works on Paper, Galerie Stuhler, Berlin, Germany
2001 Zen and the Art of Cities, Rivington Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2001 Create Quarters, Museum of London, United Kingdom
2000 Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London, United Kingdom
2000 Local Colour, Bury St. Edmunds Gallery; City Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2000 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom
2000 Advanced Graphics, Original Print Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1999 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom
1999 Kunst Schmuck Kunst, Galerie Stuhler, Berlin; Compas Gallery, United Kingdom
1999 Glasgow; 21, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, United Kingdom
1999 Small is Beautiful, Flowers West, Los Angeles, United States
1998 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom
1998 25 Years of the Visual Arts, Bulter Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
1998 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom
1997 The Subjects of Art, Nat West Group Art Collection, United Kingdom
1996 Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London, United Kingdom
1995 Cabinet Art, Jason and Rhodes, London, United Kingdom
1995 10 Years in Galerie Im Griechenbeisl, Vienna, Austria
1995 British Abstract Painting, Atkinson, Millfield, Somerset, United Kingdom
1994 Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1994 Painters and Prints, Curwen Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1994 Castlefield 10th Anniversary, Castlefield Gallery and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
1994 Contemporary Prints, Flowers Graphics; British Abstract Painting, Flowers East, London, United Kingdom
1994 Critics Choice, Clare Henry, NS Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1994 12 Contemporary British Printmakers, Karelian Republic Art Museum, Russia
1993 Egyptian International Print Triennale; The Byker Art Show, Newcastle, United Kingdom
1992 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (Invited artist), London, United Kingdom
1991 Bradford Print Biennale, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
1991 Gimpel Fils - Bath Festival (with Alan Davie), Downeen Collection, Co. Cork, Ireland
1991 Guinness Hop Store, Dublin , Ireland
1991 Centenary Exhibition (Selector), Peter Stuyvesant Collection Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1990 Great British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland
1989 International Print Biennale, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1989 The Experience of Painting, Laing Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom
1988 Beattie, Hoyland, Irvin, Sunderland, United Kingdom
1988 Presence of Painting, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom
1988 Carine Campo Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
1988 European Biennale Graphic Art, Baden-Baden, Germany
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Arts Council of Great Britain
Birmingham City Art Gallery
British Council
Hudders eld Art Gallery
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Manchester City Art Gallery
Mappin Gallery, She eld, United Kingdom
Neue Gallerie der Stadt Linz, Austria
New England Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Pensecola Museum, Florida, United Kingdom
Schindler Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Stoke City Art Gallery
Stuyvesant Collection, Holland
Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
COLLECTIONS
1986 Bradford Print Biennale (prizewinner), United Kingdom
1985 Home and Abroad, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1984 ROSC ‘84, Dublin, Ireland
1983 Contemporary British Painters, Madrid, Spain
1980 Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom