Antony Gormley 194292 225199186 2008-07-12T12:28:06Z 86.16.245.100 /* Biography */ :'' [[Image:Fly-Angel.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''[[Angel of the North]]'']] '''Antony Gormley''' [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[Royal Academician|RA]] (born [[30 August]] [[1950]]) is an [[England|English]] [[sculpture|sculptor]]. His best known works include the ''[[Angel of the North]]'', a [[public art|public sculpture]] in [[Gateshead]] commissioned in 1995 and erected in February 1998, and ''[[Another Place]]'' on [[Crosby Beach]] near [[Liverpool]]. == Biography == Born the youngest of six children (4 girls and two boys), Gormley grew up in [[Kent]]. He went to school at [[Ampleforth College]], Yorkshire. He went on to complete a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology and History of Art at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] from 1968 to 1971 before going to [[India]] and [[Sri Lanka]] to study [[Buddhism]]. Returning to London three years later in 1974, Gormley attended [[Central School of Art]] and [[Goldsmiths College]], 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.{{Fact|date=November 2007}} Over the last 31 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 a 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'', ''Domain Field'', ''Inside Australia'' and most recently, ''Blind Light''. 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. Antony Gormley’s work has been exhibited extensively, with solo shows throughout the UK in venues such as the [[Whitechapel]], [[Tate]] and the [[Hayward Gallery]], 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 Kölnischer Kunstverein in Germany. ''Blind Light'', a major show of his work, was held at the [[Hayward Gallery]] from 17 May until 19 August 2007. He has participated in major group shows such as the [[Venice Biennale]] and the Kassel [[Documenta]] 8. His ''Field'' has toured America, Europe and Asia. 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 [[Penny Woolcock]]’s [[Exodus (2007 film)|Margate Exodus]], a re-telling of the Bible story of the enslavement and liberation of the Jewish people, commissioned by [[Art Angel]]. ''Angel of the North'' and, more recently, ''Quantum Cloud'' on the Thames in Greenwich are amongst the most celebrated examples of contemporary British sculpture. One of his key installations, ''Another Place'', is to remain permanently on display at Crosby Beach, Merseyside. Gormley has almost made work for the stage. He collaborated with choreographer/dance artists [[Akram Khan]] and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and composer [[Nitin Sawhney]] on 'zero degrees', which premiered at [[Sadler's Wells]] Theatre, London in 2005 and then toured internationally. He designed the set and made life size mannequins of Khan and Larbi which they used in their performance. He worked again with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and monks from the Shaolin Temple, China, to make 'Sutra', which opened at Sadler's Wells in May 2008. Again he designed the set, which this time included a series of man-size boxes which were used in a variety of ways by the monks and Larbi in the performance. Gormley was awarded the [[Turner Prize]] in 1994 and the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999 and was made an Order of the British Empire ([[OBE]]) in 1997. In 2007 he was awarded the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture. He is an Honorary Fellow of the [[Royal Institute of British Architects]], [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] and [[Jesus College, Cambridge]], and has been a Royal Academician since 2003. He is a trustee of the [[British Museum]] and the [[Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art]]. ==Major works== [[Image:Iron Man - Anthony Gormley Statue - Victoria Square - Birmingham - 2005-10-14.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Iron: Man'', in [[Victoria Square, Birmingham|Victoria Square]], [[Birmingham]].]] [[Image:Gormley pair-341.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Pair of figures spread by plate glass, [[Regent's Place]], London.]] [[Image:Antony Gormley - Another Place - Crosby Beach 01.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A figure from ''[[Another Place]]'' on [[Crosby Beach]] near [[Liverpool]].]] [[Image:gormley-event-horizon.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Event Horizon - 1 of 31 life-size figures on London's skyline]] Gormley's website includes images of nearly all of his works up to 2007. The most notable include: *''[[Field (sculpture)|Field]]'' (and subsequent recreations). *''Sound II'' ([[1986]]) in the [[crypt]] of [[Winchester Cathedral]]. *''[[Iron: Man]]'' ([[1993]]) [[Victoria Square, Birmingham|Victoria Square]], [[Birmingham]]. *''[[Another Place]]'' ([[1997]]) currently at [[Crosby Beach]] near [[Liverpool]]. *''[[Quantum Cloud]]'' ([[1999]]) [[Greenwich]], UK. *''[[Angel of the North]]'' ([[1998]]) *''Time Horizon'', the Archaeological Park of Scolacium near [[Catanzaro]] in [[Calabria]], Southern Italy <ref>[http://www.intersezioni.eu/main.html Time Horizon], Archaeological Park of Scolacium</ref> *''[[Event Horizon (sculpture)|Event Horizon]]'' along the South Bank of the Thames, London, UK. ==Proposals not taken forward== *''[[Brick Man]]'', a proposal for the Holbeck Triangle, a disused patch of land bounded by three railway embankments just outside [[Leeds City station]], was to be a representation of the human male form, made in brickwork and standing over 30 metres high. The proposal, made in 1988, was not favoured by the city, which refused planning permission. *According to an interview with [[John-Paul Flintoff]] in the ''[[Sunday Times]]'' on [[2 March]] [[2008]], Gormley proposed a 12-metre-high [[ejaculation|ejaculating]] man for the waterfront at [[Seattle]]. The figure was meant to give an 11-second ejaculation of sea water every five minutes. “I intended it as an ironic comment on the male figure in relation to the whole idea of a fountain, because everyone knows the fountain is a male fantasy of permanent ejaculation.” ==References== {{Refimprove|date=April 2008}} {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{external links}} *{{commonscat-inline|Antony Gormley}} *[http://www.antonygormley.com/ www.antonygormley.com Official Home Page] *[http://www.antonygormley.co.uk/'''www.AntonyGormley.co.uk''' Antony Gormley Aficionado Site] *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/gormleya1.shtml An interview with Gormley by Edward Lucie Smith in RealMedia format] *[http://www.fdavidpeat.com/interviews/gormley.htm An interview conducted by F. David Peat] *[http://www.gateshead.gov.uk/Leisure%20and%20Culture/Angel/Home.aspx Gateshead Council's ''Angel of the North'' page] *[http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1192&page=1 Gormley's page at the Tate Gallery] *[http://flickr.com/photos/doctorboogie/sets/72157594315434792 Waste Man] *[http://www.sculpture.org.uk/artists/AntonyGormley Antony Gormley] at Sculpture.org.uk *[http://d-sites.net/english/gormley.htm 'Antony Gormley: the abortive rebirth of the slaves'] *[http://www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery/art_sculpt01.html The Brick Man at Leeds City Art Gallery] *[http://www.tate.org.uk/btseries/bb/antonygormley/ Interactive video interview with Gormley and interactive exploration of his work at the Tate Gallery.] *[http://www.iairp.com/view_project.php?pageID=15&articleID=32 Gormley's exhibition in Guernsey for the International Artist In Residence Programme IAIRP] *[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article3444837.ece Antony Gormley, the man who broke the mould] Sunday Times article on 2nd March 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Gormley, Antony}} [[Category:English sculptors]] [[Category:Contemporary sculptors]] [[Category:Turner Prize winners]] [[Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge]] [[Category:Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London]] [[Category:Alumni of the Slade School of Art]] [[Category:Royal Academicians]] [[Category:Old Amplefordians]] [[Category:1950 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Trustees of the British Museum]] [[de:Antony Gormley]] [[es:Antony Gormley]] [[fr:Antony Gormley]] [[ia:Antony Gormley]] [[ka:ენტონი გორმლი]] [[nl:Antony Gormley]] [[ja:アントニー・ゴームリー]] [[no:Antony Gormley]] [[nn:Antony Gormley]] [[ru:Гормли, Энтони]]