Flavia Irwin RA
Born: 15 December 1916, London UK
Elected RA: 29 May 1996
Category of Membership: Painter
Flavia Irwin RA, Shadow Mark 2
Flavia Irwin studied under Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland at Chelsea School of Art and at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford. She taught general design at Medway College of Art from 1970 to 1975 and was Senior Tutor of Decorative Arts at City & Guilds of London Art School from 1975 until 1997.
Irwin’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the UK, with exhibitions being held at the People’s Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, Gallery 10, London, the Curwen Gallery, the Phoenix Gallery and Studio 3 Gallery, London. Her work was included in a group show at Shad Thames in the 1990s, along with Ken Draper, Sandra Blow and Jean MacAlpine, and has also been shown regularly in the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition and at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at the Andsdell Gallery, London and Ove Arups, London since the early 1980s. ‘Flavia Irwin RA: Recent Works’ was shown in the Sir Hugh Casson Room for Friends at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2001. Her work is held in many private collections in both the UK and the USA.
Irwin was elected Senior Academician in 1996 and is also an Honorary Member of the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. She lives and works in Kent.
Public collections
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
Government Art Collection, London
Westminster Conference Centre, London
Midland Montague Morgan Grenfell
Carlisle City Art Gallery
Government Art Collection
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Department of the Environment
Contact details for further information
Email membershipoffice@royalacademy.org.uk
