Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950 and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1968. He then studied at the Central School of Art, Goldsmiths College, and the Slade School of Art, where he graduated in 1979, having studied archaeology, anthropology, and art history.
His sculptures, installations, and public artworks explore the relationship of the human body to space. He is best known for his work with human forms, which he created mainly from casts of his own naked body. Antony Gormley artwork often asks, “What is the nature of the space a human being inhabits?”
Gormley’s ideas took another turn when he began to place his naked life-size figures outdoors. These pieces, along with his iconic Antony Gormley drawings, demonstrate his fascination with the human form in its spatial environment.
Until his controversial works of the 21st century, Gormley was perhaps best known for the enormous “Angel of the North” in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, some 20 metres high with a 54-metre span. His celebrated public sculptures also include Antony Gormley prints and installations like Another Place (1997) in Liverpool and Event Horizon (2007) in London.
In 1994, he won the Turner Prize for contemporary art. He was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997 and was included in the New Year Honours List for 2014 as a knight bachelor.
