Gillian Wise obituary

Abstract artist and key member of the British constructivists group in the late 1950s and 60sVisitors to Cinema 1 at the Barbican Centre in London arrive via a stairwell clad in metal panels spray-painted in vivid geometric forms. These are an artwork: The Alice Walls, created for the centre’s opening in 1982.The work’s feel of the early Russian avant garde – Kazimir Malevich, say – is no coincidence. Gillian Wise, its creator, who has died aged 84 after contracting Covid