Anthony Hill (artist)

Anthony Cedric Graham Hill (23 April 1930 – 13 October 2020), also known as Achill Redo, was an English painter, relief-maker, and mathematician.

He was originally a member of the post-World War II British art movement termed the Constructionist Group whose work was essentially in the international constructivist tradition.

Biography

His fellow members in this group were Victor Pasmore, Adrian Heath, John Ernest, Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin, Gillian Wise and Stephen Gilbert.

Hill was born on 23 April 1930 in London, and studied at the Saint Martin's School of Art and the Central School of Art and Crafts between 1948 and 1951. He began painting in the style of Dada and Surrealism in 1948, but quickly moved on to geometric abstract idioms. He made his first relief in 1954 and abandoned painting for relief-making in 1956. One feature of these reliefs was the use of non-traditional materials such as industrial aluminium and Perspex.

His first one-man show of reliefs was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1958. He participated in exhibitions of abstract and constructivist art in the UK, Paris, Germany, Holland, Poland, Switzerland and the United States.

In 1978, he exhibited in the Arts Council's exhibition, Constructive Context, alongside a number of artists such as Jeffrey Steele and Peter Lowe who had begun working in a systematised constructive mode in the mid to late 1960s and came together in the Systems Group in December 1969.