Pamela Irving

Pamela Irving
Born	Pamela Anne Irving 1960 Melbourne, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Education	Melbourne State College, Melbourne College of Advanced Education
Known for	Ceramics, Sculpture, Mosaics, Printmaking, Etching
Notable work	Larry La Trobe (1992, 1996)
Awards	Nominated Kamel Kiln Award (1981) Ceramic Prize City of Box Hill (1985) Ceramic Prize City of Footscray (1985) Pat Corrigan Artists grant (1991) Australia Day Ceramic Award Shaepparton Art Gallery (1994)
Website	Pamela Irving

Pamela Irving (born 1960) is an Australian visual artist specialising in bronze, ceramic and mosaic sculptures as well as printmaking and copper etchings. In addition to her extensive art work, Irving has lectured in art and ceramics at Monash University, the Melbourne College of Advanced Education, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and the Chisholm Institute of Technology. She also worked as an art critic for the Geelong Advertiser and was a councillor on the Craft Council of Victoria.

Born in Victoria, Australia, Irving was formally educated at the Melbourne State College (1979–1982) where she undertook a Bachelor of Education (Art/Craft) and she completed a Master of Arts degree by research at the Melbourne College of Advanced Education. Supervised by Professor Noel John Flood, (ceramicist and the Head of Ceramics Department), Irving was one of the first two candidates to be approved to undertake the Master of Arts Degree in Visual Arts in what was, at that time, the Melbourne CAE.

Irving's thesis for her master's degree examined 'the reasons and meaning behind the presence and mythology imagery in the works of Arthur Boyd, John Perceval and Mirka Mora (those artists being nominated because of the relevance to my own work)'.

Pascoe observes that Irving's work is derived from 'a mixture of personal experience, myth and virulent imagination'. Hammond has described Irving's early ceramic work as 'humorous, figurative and cheerfully contemptuous of pottery traditions.

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