Anthony Hill (artist)

For the Australian author, see Anthony Hill (author)

'Anthony Hill is an artist and painter, part of the post-WW II art movement termed British constructivism, alongside fellow founders Victor Pasmore, John Ernest, Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin, and Stephen Gilbert. He was born on 23 April 1930 in London, and studied at the St Martin's and the Central Schools 1948–51. He began painting in the style of Dada and Surrealism in 1948 before moving on to more abstract idioms. He made his first relief in 1954 having abandoned painting in 1956. His first one-man show of reliefs was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1958. He has participated in exhibitions of abstract and constructivist art in UK, Paris, Germany, Holland, Switzerland and the USA. In 1983 the Hayward Gallery held a major retrospective exhibition of Anthony Hill's constructivist work.

Anthony Hill has had a lifelong fascination with mathematics, and there are many mathematicians among his circle of acquaintances. Together with his colleague John Ernest he made minor contributions to graph theory (crossing number). From the late 1980s onward Anthony Hill exhibited dadaist pictures and collages under the pseudonym Achill Redo. The Tate Gallery, London has collections under both of the names Anthony Hill and Achill Redo.

An excellent summary of the life and constructivist work of Anthony Hill, together with that of the other British constructivists, is given in Alastair Grieve's authoritative book of 2005.

References

• Grieve, Alastair Constructed Abstract Art in England After the Second World War: A Neglected Avant Garde, Yale University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-300-10703-6.
• Harary, Frank and Hill, Anthony. On the number of crossings in a complete graph. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Math. Society (2), 13:333-338, 1962/1963.
• Hill, Anthony, editor Data: Directions in Art, Theory and Aesthetics, Faber and Faber. 1968. ISBN 978-0571087624
• Hill, Anthony, editor Duchamp: Passim, Craftsman House. 1994. ISBN 978-9768097781