Accession Code: wu1001 Title: Arrival Date completed: 1989 Classification: Painting Medium: Acrylic on canvas Height (mm): 1524 Width (mm): 1829 Depth (mm): Inscription: Location Name: Warwick Arts Centre Location Description: Opposite Music Centre Location Floor: 0

Arrival is a powerful example of Irvin’s exuberant use of paint and energetic mark-making and it reflects his stated thesis that: 'My paintings are not in any sense depictions of anything: I like to think that rather than being pictures of the world, they are pictures about it'.

The title is ambiguous, not prompted in this case by a location; it it is possibly an improvisation on something recently experienced. He often made an analogy between music and painting and believed that, like music, painting can express what it feels like to be human.

Gifted to the University Art Collection by Oliver Prenn