Summary
A substantial exhibition of Hilton's work has just opened at Tate St Ives (until 21 January 2007). Featuring some 75 paintings and drawings, it gives a succinct and potent overview of Hilton's career, though it is by no means a full retrospective. There isn't really room: Tate St Ives is a difficult space in which to show paintings, having round walls, echoing the gasworks it replaced.
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Fresh and Wild
Roger Hilton (1911-75) is one of our greatest abstract painters, an artist associated with the St Ives School (he lived in Cornwall for the last 10 years of his life, and visited regularly for a decade before that) whose work overleaps constraining categories. Abstract yes, but also profoundly figurative -- he was one of the finest draughtsmen of the nude in the postwar period and his paintings m...
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