Education
Royal College of Artist
Royal College of Artist
The pair married. During the 1940s Martin’s work began to emphasise elements of structure and design until 1948-1949 when following Pasmore’s lead he became purely abstract. “The moment I became a purely abstract artist I began to realise what I had been missing..That I’d really missed the whole of the modern movement’’. Martin"s first constructions appeared in 1951 and he became known for his mobile works and kinetic sculpture.
Martin’s particular interest became Geometric abstraction.
Kenneth and Mary Martin along with Pasmore exhibited together in a number of group exhibitions during the 1950s including This Is Tomorrow. Kenneth and Mary had a joint exhibition at the I.C.A. in 1960.
In the 1960s, Kenneth Martin ran a course at Barry summer school and recruited his ex-student Peter Lowe as a teaching assistant. There is a stainless steel fountain by Kenneth Martin at Brixton Day College in south London, and an aluminium sculpture at the Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge.
An exhibition of the work of Kenneth and Mary Martin was mounted at the Tate Street Ives in 2007.
In the 1930s, he painted in a naturalistic style and was associated with the Euston Road School and with Pasmore was a member of the London Group.