Artist of the day, January 4: Martin Hill , British-born, New Zealand Sculptor, photographer, environmental artist

Martin Hill (1946) was born in London, UK where he was educated in art and design. Since 1992 through multiple forms of publishing including a book in 2007 Earth to Earth, Sculpture inspired by nature’s design, Hill’s environmental sculpture photographs have reached a wide audience internationally.

He has had solo exhibitions in Japan, Sweden, Australia, China, Andorra and New Zealand, and has completed numerous privately commissioned sculptures and projects. The Fine Line Project, begun in 1995 in collaboration with his partner Philippa Jones and nearing completion, is a symbolic line encircling the earth connecting ephemeral sculptures made on 12 high points.
Delicate Canvas, a documentary film of his working practice was made in 2011. The Watershed Project was created during The Kenneth Myer Alpine Artist’s residency he and Philippa were awarded in 2012 high in the Southern Alps of New Zealand near Wanaka where they live.

Watershed was exhibited at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Melbourne in 2014 and received an award of excellence at Pingyao International Photography Festival. Hill and Jones where invited artists to Antarctica by Antarctica New Zealand December 2014. In 2015 they took part in a NZ Department of Conservation joint artist residency in Dusky Sound Fiordland and had two solo exhibitions:  Andorra Land Art Biennale and Inter Art Centre and Gallery, Beijing. In 2016 were exhibited as finalists at Arte Laguna, Venice and were 1st prize winner in the Conceptual category in the Fine Art Photography Awards.

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Mr & Mrs Martin Hill

At work

The studio

1994, Stone Circle

1996, Climbing Sculpture

1997, Tide Circle

1997, Water Cycle

1998, 2000 Circles

1998, 2000 Pine Needles

1998, Grass Sphere

1998, Sand Stream Circle

1999, Mountain Stones

2001, Rising Circle

2002, Anawhata Sphere

2002, Leaf Cycle

2002, Reflected Rocks

2002, Snow Infinity

2005, Gorge Circle

2005, River Stone & Petals

2006, Aoraki Ice Circle

2006, Kanuka Circle

2006, Snow Circle

2007, Encircled Stone

2007, Ice Circle

2007, Wanaka Snow Circle

2008, Autumn Leaf Cycle

2008, Balanced Boulders

2008, Out of the Ashes

2009, Lakebed Clay Circle

2009, Sunrise circle

2009, Synergy

2010, Autumn Leaf Circle

2010, Circle of circles

2010, Cyclic Flow

2010, Green Sphere

2010, Interdependence

2010, Interwoven world

2010, Weather Pattern

2011, Bracken Sphere

2011, Cascade Saddle Ice Circle

2011, Diamond Lake Ice Circle

2011, Diamond Lake Leaf Circle

2011, Kanuka Circle

2011, Kanuka Sphere

2011, Lake Hawea Stone Sphere

2011, Leaf Fall

2011, Stacked Stone Sphere Winter

2012, Embodied

2012, Ice Guardian

2012, Interconnected

2012, Solve for Pattern

2012, Tussock Grass Circle

2013, Alpine ice cycle

2013, In the Balance

2013, Life on the Edge

Feathers