[3][4] He received a grant from the UK Jewish community to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp between 1948 and 1949.

[13] In 1962 he participated in the Festival of Misfits organised by members of the Fluxus group, at Gallery One, London.

Metzger stated that "artists have a special part to play in opposing extinction, if only on a theoretical, intellectual basis.

Acid is painted, flung and sprayed onto the nylon which corrodes at point of contact within 15 seconds.Construction with glass.

The glass sheets suspended by adhesive tape fall onto the concrete ground in a pre-arranged sequence.Liquid Crystal Environment was originally made in 1965 and remade in 2005.

[22] This ongoing series of work consists of enlarged press photographs of catastrophic events of the 20th century presented to the viewer using confrontational and experiential methods.

[20] An integral piece of the installation at the Tate Britain, a bag containing rubbish, was erroneously disposed by a cleaner on 30 June 2004.

[19] Originally conceived for Manchester Peace Garden and commissioned by Manchester International Festival in 2009, this work consists of uprooted trees inverted into a concrete block in a powerful environmental memorandum of man's destructive capabilities and violation of Nature.

[25] The painter David Bomberg, the leading light of the Borough Group, taught Metzger and was influential in his development.