Stepper

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Gwyther Irwin was born at Basingstoke, Hampshire, but grew up at Trebetherick, on the Cornish coast. At school he was taught by the painter Roger Hilton. He studied first at Goldsmiths College and from 1951-54 at Central School in Holborn. During the 1950s he experimented with European avant-garde styles such as art brut, graffiti and the found image. His first solo show in London in 1959 was critically acclaimed and, in 1964, he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. From 1969-1984 he was head of fine art at Brighton College of Art. A retrospective in 1987 and inclusion in major survey shows at the Barbican (1993) and Tate Britain (2004) were tempered by the onset of Alzheimer's disease. He died in Trebetherick in 2008.

Places

Subjects

abstract

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Gwyther Irwin (1931 - 2008)

Title

Stepper

Date

1974

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 86.50 cm, width: 122.30 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the New Art Centre, July 1977

Inscription

signed & inscribed on stretcher

GAC number

13347