Hill, Anthony

Hill, Anthony (1930– ). British abstract painter and maker of reliefs, born in London. He studied at St Martin's School of Art, 1947–9, and at the Central School of Art and Design, 1949–51. After a period of experimentation with various styles and modes of expression in the early 1950s, he adopted a highly disciplined form of abstract painting. In 1954 he made his first relief and he abandoned painting two years later. With Kenneth and Mary Martin he became recognized as one of the leaders of the Constructivist movement in Britain. His reliefs often use industrial materials such as plastic and mass-produced aluminium sections arranged in accordance with mathematical dictates (he was honorary research fellow in the mathematics department at University College London in 1971–3). He has published several articles on art and mathematics, and in 1968 he edited an anthology DATA: Directions in Art, Theory and Aesthetics, which was described by the critic Stephen Bann as ‘by far the most illuminating and comprehensive recent survey of attitudes towards the constructive tradition'.