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. “I’ve never been interested in making statues,” the artist has said. “But I have been interested in asking 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 out-of-doors.
Until his controversial works of the 21st Gormley was perhaps best known for the enormous “Angel of the North” in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. England, some 20 metres high and having a 54 metre) span.
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
His public sculptures and installations include the monumental Another Place (1997) in Liverpool, Angel of the North (1998) in Gateshead, and Event Horizon (2007) in London.
