Albert Irvin OBE (British, b.1922) is an Abstract Expressionist painter, whose large-scale works are among the most compelling and distinctive produced in Britain today. Paul Moorhouse, Tate curator and author of the book Albert Irvin: Life to Painting, wrote of him: "Even to those familiar with his work, seeing a new painting by Irvin can be an extraordinary experience akin to discovering a young, energetic artist in the first flush of ambition. Given the force of its restless energy, its freshness and the sense it communicates of an artist in love with his chosen activity, it is even more surprising to realize that this is the work of an artist in his late 70s."
His work has been exhibited in public and private institutions around the world, including at the Arts Council of Great Britain, Birmingham City Art Gallery, the Chase Manhattan Bank, the Contemporary Art Society, Manchester City Art Gallery, Tate Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Warwick University Arts Centre.
Irvin was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2013.
