Antony Gormley Biography and Artwork

born London (UK) 1950

Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950. Upon completing a degree in archaeology, anthropology and the history of art at Trinity College, Cambridge, 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.

Over the last 20 years Antony Gormley has revitalised the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation, using his own body as subject, tool and material. Since 1990 he has expanded his concern with the human condition to explore the collective body and the relationship between self and other in large-scale installations like Allotment, Critical Mass, Another Place, and most recently Domain Field and Inside Australia.

Antony Gormley's work has been exhibited extensively, with solo shows throughout the UK in venues such as the Whitechapel, Tate and 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 Kolnischer Kunstverein in Germany.

He has participated in major group shows such as the Venice Biennale and the Kassel Documenta 8. His Field has toured America and Europe, and is touring Asia, having started in China in 2003. Angel of the North (1998) and, most recently, Quantum Cloud on the Thames in Greenwich are amongst the most celebrated examples of contemporary British sculpture.

He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994 and the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999.

Select Timeline

• 1950 - Born in London
• 1994 - Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
• 1998 - Honorary Fellowship, Goldsmith's College, University of London
• 1998 - Honorary Doctorate, University of Sunderland
• 1999 - South Bank Art Award for Visual Art
• 2000 - Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
• 2000 - British Design and Art Direction Silver Award for Illustration
• 2000 - Civic Trust Award
• 2001 - Honorary Doctorate, Open University
• 2001 - Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects
• 2003 - Royal Academician
• 2003 - Honorary Doctorate, Cambridge University
• 2003 - Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
• 2004 - Honorary Doctorate, Newcastle University

Select Exhibitions

• 2004 - Domain Field, The Great Hall, Winchester, UK
• 2005 - Another Place, Crosby Beach, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
• 2005 - Asian Field, ICA Singapore, Singapore
• 2005 - Field for the British Isles, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield, UK
• 2005 - New Works, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
• 2005 - Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
• 2005 - Blickachsen 5, Bad Homburg, Germany
• 2005 - From Moore To Kapoor: Turning Points From Six Decades Of British Sculpture, Sammlung Wurth, Kunzelsau, Austria
• 2005 - Glyndebourne Festival 2005, Glyndebourne, UK
• 2005 - The Human Figure For British Art From Moore To Gormley, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, England
• 2005 - Inside Australia, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• 2005 - Munch Revisited, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden, Norway
• 2005 - Soul, Corpus Bruges '05, Bruges, Belgium
• 2005 - Space-Now And Then, AaBe Factories, Tilburg, Holland
• 2005 - Trans Ceramic Art, Ceramics Biennale, Icheon, South Korea
• 2006 - Galerie Ropac, Paris
• 2006 - Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

Select Artwork

• Field (and subsequent recreations).
• Sound II (1986) in the crypt of Winchester Cathedral.
• Iron: Man (1993) Victoria Square, Birmingham.
• Another Place (1997) currently at Crosby Beach near Liverpool.
• Quantum Cloud (1999) Greenwich, UK.
• Angel of the North (1998)

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Quick Facts

• Gormley won the Turner Prize in 1994 with Field for the British Isles.
• Almost all of his work takes the human body as its subject, with his own body used in many works as the basis for metal casts.
• His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead and Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool.
• The 2006 Sydney Biennale featured Gormley's Asian Field, an installation of 180,000 small clay figurines crafted by 350 Chinese villagers in five days from 100 tons of red clay.

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