“Through the conversion of anatomy into an architectural construction I want to reassess the relation between body and space,”
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Antony Gormley
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley is a British sculptor. His works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool; and Event Horizon, a multipart site installation which premiered in London in 2007, then subsequently in Madison Square in New York City (2010), São Pa…
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culture · British sculptor (born 1950) · sculptor · scenographer · photographer · draftsperson · installation artist · artist · graphic artist · painter · also Antony Gormley, Antony Mark David Gormley, Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, Anthony Gormley, Gormley
Born 30 August 1950 · Q360371
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2026· 4 entries
“I am talking to the French minister of historic monuments,”
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“Alan Turing unlocked the door between the industrial and the information ages. I wanted to make the best sculpture I could to honour a man who was pivotal in changing the course of all our lives. It is not about the memorialisation of a death, but about a celebration of the opportunities that a life allowed”
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Bed (1981) – purchased by the Tate Gallery
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2025· 1 entry
The Korea Times: In weightless virtual age, Antony Gormley calls us back to body
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2024· 4 entries
The Art Newspaper: Antony Gormley donates art worth £500,000 to the UK Labour party ahead of general election
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Observer: Antony Gormley Opens Up About Drawing’s Role in Sculpture and His Relationship with New York
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Euronews: British sculptor Antony Gormley unveils new exhibition in English country estate
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Time Horizon, an installation of 100 cast iron sculptures, opened at Houghton Hall in Norfolk
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2023· 1 entry
Gormley opened a number of large-scale exhibitions, including Living Time at TAG Art Museum in Qingdao, China, and Critical Mass at Musée Rodin in Paris, which marked the first time that a living artist has been invited
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2022· 1 entry
A Gormley sculpture called Alert was installed on the main campus of Imperial College London
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2020· 1 entry
Gormley was confirmed to be "lending" a sculpture to Kirklees College to sit atop its new building at Pioneer House in Dewsbury, as part of a major redevelopment in the town
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2019· 5 entries
Hyperallergic: The Hollow Heart of Antony Gormley’s Spectacle
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New Scientist: Antony Gormley’s virtual reality adventure lets you ski on the moon
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Artnet: Sculptor Antony Gormley’s First-Ever VR Artwork Will Take You on a Virtual Journey to the Moon
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Gormley populated the island of Delos with iron "bodyforms" with the exhibition Sight
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The Royal Academy held an exhibition filling its 13 main galleries with Gormley's works, including some new (designed to fit the space), some remade for the gallery, and some of his early sculptures, with two rooms of hi
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2018· 1 entry
With the exhibition Essere at the Uffizi Gallery
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2017· 1 entry
Gormley curated Inside, an exhibition at the Southbank Centre, London, presented by the Koestler Trust showing artworks by prisoners, detainees, and ex-offenders
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2016· 2 entries
Artnet: 7 Things to Know About Antony Gormley on His Birthday
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“I am excited about making sculpture that stands in the wind, the rain and snow, day and night.”
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture (2015).
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At the Forte di Belvedere in Florence, Gormley presented a group of cast iron works that acted as points of "acupuncture" throughout the historical fortress
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
And is the 2013 Praemium Imperiale laureate for sculpture
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2009· 2 entries
One & Other (6 July – 14 October 2009) – Trafalgar Square, London, England
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Earthbound: Plant (2002) – McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site, University of Cambridge
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2008· 1 entry
The Daily Telegraph ranked Gormley number four in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture"
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2007· 1 entry
Gormley's Event Horizon, consisting of 31 life-sized and anatomically correct casts of his body, four in cast iron and 27 in fiberglass, was installed on top of prominent buildings along London's South Bank, and placed i
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2006· 1 entry
The burning of Gormley's 25-metre-tall (82 ft) The Waste Man formed the zenith of the Margate Exodus
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (2001).
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1994· 3 entries
Awarded Turner Prize (1994).
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Studied at European Ceramics Work Center (1994–1994).
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And erected in February 1998; Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool; and Event Horizon, a multipart site installation which premiered in London in 2007, then subsequently in Madison Square in New York City (2010),
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1980· 1 entry
His wife, as well as a successful artist in her own right
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1950· 1 entry
Born 1950-08-30.
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