Page 45 - Studio International - April 1966

In a quiet way it has come to exert a considerable in- loose association rather than a closely-knit group with an
fluence on British art, where a number of promising extensive ideology, and this probably explains its staying
young artists have appeared with similar aims—Peter power. Its members originally were painters and their
Lowe, Terence Pope, Jean Spencer, and others. principal motivation was the desire to reopen in a new
The British group has always had the character of a way those possibilities sealed off from painting by the
Anthony Hill Relief Construction 1963-4 Stephen Gilbert Structure 31a 1963
Aluminium, perspex, vinyl 18 x 26 in. Aluminium sculpture
One of a series of works based on number partitions. Hill generally Hamilton Galleries
uses mathematical themes, and in his work he combines his Assembled from curved sheets of aluminium, his structures are
interest in mathematical structure with an interest in the optical/ disciplined by a logic similar to that which governs natural growth.
physical properties of his medium. Gilbert, though British, lives and works in Paris.

Gillian Wise John Ernest
Two-Part Construction on three planes 1965 Mosaic Relief III 1964
18 x 12 in. Cellulose on hardboard, aluminium, formica
Gillian Wise has been one of the most adventurous in the group in 30 x 34 in.
her exploration of contemporary materials. She exploits the The mosaic reliefs grew out of attempts to devise visual analogues
three-dimensional possibilities of the constructed relief to provoke for group tables. As the works evolved the original mathematical
complex physical sensations of space. idea became increasingly remote.