To Save a Forest

Martin Hill born 1946 London, UK, educated at High Wycombe University of art and design. Worked as a designer in London, Nairobi, Sydney and Auckland New Zealand founding a design company and winning several national and international awards. In 1992 he began making environmental sculpture works. The photographs of these ephemeral sculptures made in collaboration with his partner Philippa Jones were published and exhibited internationally. A book of his photography titled Earth to Earth published in 2007 carried writing from leaders in sustainable practice. A film of Hill’s art practice made in 2010 titled A Delicate Canvas.Watershed exhibition examining the water cycle and climate change exhibited at McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery, Melbourne 2014. Works in progress include the Fine Line Project begun 1995: 12 ephemeral sculptures made on high points connected by a line encircling the earth. Hill and Jones were selected by Antarctica NZ for the Artists to Antarctica Programme for December 2014. He was featured in the exhibition `To Save a Forest….Photographs by leading New Zealand conservationists: Martin Hill, Ian Macdonald and Craig Potton,’ curated by John B Turner for the 2014 Pingyao International Photography Festival, and won their award for outstanding foreign photographers.

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