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 Antony Mark David Gormley (OBE) was born on 30 August 1950 and is currently Britain’s' most famous living sculptor. His best known art work include the Angel of the North, in Gateshead and Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool. More recently this artist has exhibited Event Horizon and Blind Light, in and around the Hayward Gallery, London, UK.
Born the youngest of seven children, the artist grew up in a well off family in Hampstead and after a long study period in, amongst other places, Cambridge; he moved to India and Sri Lanka to study Buddhism for 3 years.
He started his professional career when he turned 30 years old with the early support of Nicholas Serota and eventually to rose to great success.Antony Gormley describes his work as "an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance where we all live." Many of his works are based on moulds taken from his own body, or "the closest experience of matter that I will ever have and the only part of the material world that I live inside." His work attempts to treat the body not as a thing but a place and in making works that enclose the space of a particular body to identify a condition common to all human beings. The work is not symbolic but indexical - a trace of a real event of a real body in time. Gormley studied at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire. He also studied at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1968 to 1971 before going to India and Sri Lanka to study Buddhism from 1971 to 1974. From 1974 onwards, he attended various colleges in London, completing his studies with a postgraduate course in sculpture at the Slade School of Art, University College London between 1977 and 1979. His career was given early support by Nicholas Serota who had been a near contemporary of Gormley's at Cambridge giving him a solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1981. 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. He won the Turner Prize in 1994 with Field for the British Isles. 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. Also in 2006, the burning of Gormley's 25-metre high "The Waste Man" formed the zenith of the Margate Exodus. He is currently a trustee of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and (since April 2007) of the British Museum. He is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Source: Wikipedia
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.
Selected 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
Selected 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
Selected 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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