British
Born in London, Anthony Hill studied at the St Martin's and Central Schools, London from 1948 - 51. Here he had contact with Victor Pasmore and Robert Adams and between 1949 - 50 also met Adrian Heath and Kenneth and Mary Martin. During this time he investigated the emerging abstract art which was more obviously in existence in Europe and America than in Britain. He visited Paris regularly from 1951 where he met Vantongerloo, Kupka and Delaunay among others and began corresponding with Marcel Duchamp, Max Bill and American Constructivists who all promoted the mathematical trend in abstract art. In the significant 1954 Nine Abstract Artists exhibition he says of the movement: ‘Abstract art...represent[s] the first efforts to found an art for a new age, a non mimetic art aiming at an esthetic of objective invention and sensation, distinctly rational and determinist in contrast to the subjective limbo in which the greater part of art is today submerged.’

He first exhibited at the I.C.A. in Aspects of British Art, 1950, where he also had his first one-man show of reliefs in 1958. Anthony Hill uses unconventional materials and avoids any elusion to painterly traditions. His work is dominated by collage and geometric shapes and shows a great deal in common with the geometry of the Paris group Salon des Realities Nouvelles the members of which he was in contact. He was also instrumental in organising a number of key abstract art exhibitions including a number in 1951 as well as the British Abstract Art exhibition at Gimpel Fills and Construction: England: 1950-60 at the Drian Galleries in 1960.