Style and influences
Pascoe observes that Irving's work is derived from 'a mixture of personal experience, myth and virulent imagination'. [6] Hammond has described Irving's early ceramic work as 'humorous, figurative and cheerfully contemptuous of pottery traditions. [7]
Irving's early art was influenced by artists including Arthur Boyd, John Brack, Noel Connihan, Mirka Mora, Sidney Nolan [8] and John Perceval. In recent years, Irving has been influenced ″by the honest and direct expressiveness of ‘outsider art’ (the art of self-taught or 'naive artists') and the craft of 'memoryware'″ [8] Significantly, this interest grew following Irving's visit to Nek Chand's Rock Garden in Chandigarh, India. [8]
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