Antony Gormley





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Antony Gormley

Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950 and completed a degree in archaeology, anthropology and history of art at Trinity College, Cambridge. Following his degree he travelled to India, returning to London three years later to study at the Central School of Art, Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Art.

Probably most well known for his iconic sculpture, The Angel of the North, the 20m high figure overlooking the A1, near Newcastle, andAnother Place, the 100 figures placed along a 3km stretch of shoreline in Crosby, Merseyside, Antony Gormley is one of Britain's best loved artists.

Over the last 25 years, Antony has dedicated himself to an exploration of the body as a place of memory and transformation, often using his own body as his subject, tool and material. Since 1990 Antony has expanded his study to explore the concept of the collective body and the relationship between self and other in large-scale installations like Allotment, Critical Mass, Another Place andDomain Field.

One & Other is an extension of the exploration of the connection between individuals. The volunteers on the plinth become both representations of themselves and of the human population of the world, viewed by fellow members of the wider society which they inhabit.

Antony Gormley's work has been exhibited extensively, with solo shows throughout the UK in venues such as the Whitechapel, Tate and the Hayward Galleries, the British Museum and White Cube, and internationally at museums including the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, and the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Germany. Blind Light, a major solo exhibition of his work, was held at the Hayward Gallery in 2007; it was the gallery's most successful show ever, with opening hours extended to accommodate the high demand.

Antony Gormley has won many awards for his work, including the Turner Prize in 1994 and the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999. In 1997 he was awarded an OBE and in 2007 the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Trinity College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, and has been a Royal Academician since 2003.

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