About Sir Antony Gormley - British Sculptor
Sir Antony Gormley - British Sculptor
This lens is about Sir Antony Gormley (1950-present) - the man who produced
"Angel of the North" - a towering sculpture in Gateshead
"Another Place" - figures on the sand at Crosby Beach,
"Event Horizon" - figures on the rooftops of London buildings (and New York in 2010) and
"Field for the British Isles" - a room filled with small clay figures.
It shares information about the art of Antony Gormley - museums and art galleries and exhibitions where you can see his work, books and articles about his artwork and other resources for artists wanting to improve their knowledge about his work.
Antony Gormley was knighted in the New Year Honours List 2014 - and is now Sir Antony Gormley.
Image: Drawing of Antony Gormley by Katherine Tyrrell - see Antony Gormley on drawing - at the Jerwood
The Angel of the North by Antony Gormley - near Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, England (photo by David Wilson Clarke)
About Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley - life and works - Links below are to his official website
Antony Gormley OBE RA is a sculptor who has explored the human image using his own body as a subject, tool and material over the course of the last 25 years. His work has been exhibited extensively both in the UK (such as the Whitechapel, Tate Modern, Hayward Galleries, British Museum and White Cube) and internationally. He has participated in major group shows such as the Venice Biennale. His most celebrated work is probably his 20m high figure 'Angel of the North' (1997). Another important installation is 'Another Place' (1998) which now has a permanent home on Crosby Beach in Merseyside.
Antony Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994 for his Field for the British Isles, a roomful of some 40,000 terracotta figures, handmade by a local community in St Helen's on Merseyside, shown at Tate Liverpool in 1994, and (until January 2003) on show at the British Museum. He also won 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.
Sir Antony Gormley was knighted in the New Years Honours List 2014 - for services to the Arts. This fact is not (currently) acknowledged on his website.
- Antony Gormley
works, exhibitions, media, biography - Antony Gormley - Short Personal Biography
Short Personal Biography (2008) - Antony Gormley - CV
CV - lists all exhibitions in date order - Antony Gormley - Chronology
Chronology - Antony Gormley - Public Collections Containing Gormley's Work
Public Collections Containing Gormley's Work (2008) - Antony Gormley - Group Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions - Antony Gormley - Sculpture series
Sculpture series - Antony Gormley - Series of drawings
Series of drawings - Antony Gormley - Current exhibitions
Current exhibitions - Antony Gormley - Past exhibitions (solo)
Past exhibitions (solo) - Antony Gormley: Sculpted space, within and without | Video on TED.com
Legendary sculptor Antony Gormley riffs on space and the human form. His works explore the interior space we feel within our own bodies -- and the exterior space we feel around us, knowing that we are just dots in space and time.
BOOK: Tate Modern Artists: Antony Gormley - by Martin Caiger-Smith
In this survey of the artist’s work, Martin Caiger-Smith examines Gormley’s influences and assesses his relationship to minimalism, arte povera, land and environmental art, and his response to the challenge of engaging with figurative sculpture at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Other biographies of Antony Gormley
- Antony Gormley: Information from Answers.com
Antony Mark David Gormley OBE (born 30 August 1950 ) is an English sculptor - Antony Gormley Knighted | In the Air: Art News & Gossip | ARTINFO.com
ART IN THE AIR - Art News & Gossip - BBC News - In pictures: Sir Antony Gormley
A look at the career of sculptor and artist Antony Gormley, who has been made a knight in the New Year Honours List. - Antony Gormley knighted in New Year Honours List 2014 | The Independent
Antony Gormley, the celebrated sculptor whose works include "The Angel of the North" has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours List. - Antony Gormley Artists | White Cube
Antony Gormley was born in 1950 in London, England, where he lives and works. - Antony Gormley | The Guardian
Antony Gormley is an artist - Antony Gormley | Art and design | The Guardian
Latest news and comment on Antony Gormley from the Guardian
Radio Interviews with Antony Gormley
Third Ear
4 November 1989 Radio 3
Antony Gormley talks to Edward Lucie Smith about...........
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Articles about Antony Gormley
Gormley is an artist who is regularly featured in the arts pages of the broadsheets. Articles relating to specific sculptures and installations are listed with related artwork.
- Leader of the pack | | guardian.co.uk Arts (2005)
Antony Gormley decided to pursue art after studying anthropology and nearly becoming a Buddhist monk while travelling in India. The human body, his own in particular, has been his subject in sculpture that explores humanity, space and community - Sentinels in the Sky: Antony Gormley on "Event Horizon" - ARTINFO.com
The British sculptor sat down with the Modern Painters executive editor to discuss his new public-art project in New York's Madison Square Park. - The Guardian } Gormley is the new Henry Moore: third rate
Posted by Jonathan Jones Wednesday 23 May 2007I'm glad that his works make British cities more friendly to art, but that doesn't mean they're good. - Nude Antony Gormley giant lost Olympic statue race - Times Online
Antony Gormley, the sculptor behind the Angel of the North, planned to build a 390ft naked statue of himself to tower over the London Olympics. - The non-commissioned sculptor | The Art Newspaper
Gormley's statue for Imperial War Museum was shot down by Battle of Britain hero - Antony Gormley: UK business could learn from Japan's support for the arts | Art and design | The Gua
British sculptor, named sculpture laureate of the Praemium Imperiale awards, praises Japanese corporate philanthropy - Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley donate works for Labour auction | Politics | theguardian.com
The Turner-prize-winning artists Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley are among a group of leading artists, writers and actors who have donated works to Labour to be auctioned at a new annual arts dinner to be hosted by Ed Miliband on Thursday.
Gormley's Sculpture and Installations in the Uk
Angel of the North
Angel of the North - designed and created by Antony Gormley
A full frontal view of the Angel of the North, a sculpture by Antony Gormley, in Gateshead, England.
Photo taken by The Halo (taken by The Halo) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The Angel of the North is probably Gormley's best known installation
Location: Low Eighton, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear NE8 7UB
Dimensions: 20.0 m x 54.0 m
Created: February 16, 1998
Media: Copper, Steel
Video: Angel of the North
- Antony Gormley - ANGEL OF THE NORTH, 1998
I wanted to make an object that would be a focus of hope at a painful time of transition for the people of the north-east, abandoned in the gap between the industrial and the information ages. - Angel of the North - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Angel of the North is a contemporary steel sculpture - 20 metres tall - of an angel. It was designed and created by Antony Gormley. It's located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. - Angel of the North | Gateshead Council
Since spreading its wings in February 1998 Antony Gormley's The Angel of the North has become one of the most talked about pieces of public art ever produced. - Background & History| Angel of the North | Gateshead Council
The Angel's silhouette at the head of the Team Valley now rivals that of the famous Tyne Bridge. - Construction | Angel of the North | Gateshead Council
During the night of 14th February 1998, the Angel of the North made its long-awaited journey to its new home by police escort. - Technical Details | Angel of the North | Gateshead Council
State of the art engineering has been used to create Gateshead's Angel of the North, Britain's largest sculpture. - The Engineering behind the Angel | Angel of the North | Gateshead Council
The key to the success of a project of the scale of the Angel of the North is the working relationship between the artist and the engineer - the artist's vision being complemented by the engineer's technical knowledge; the engineer's advice informing - Awards | Angel of the North | Gateshead Council
The Angel of the North has won impressive collection of awards. - Visit the Angel of the North | Gateshead Council
Map plus Directions for visiting the Angel of the North via various transport means - Leader: In praise of ... the Angel of the North | Comment is free | The Guardian
Leader: Whether viewed as a spiritually uplifting icon or a phoenix rising from the ashes of the abandoned coal mine beneath it, Antony Gormley's the Angel of the North has been a joyous addition to the… - Peter Duggan's Artoons: Antony Gormley | Art and design | theguardian.com
God gives Antony Gormley's Angel of the North an early shot at fame in cartoonist Peter Duggan's reimagining of the Annunciation
BOOK: Making an Angel
A comprehensive overview of the construction and erection of the Angel of the North in Gateshead.
Created by Antony Gormley, the angel is the biggest public sculture in Britain.
Fourth Plinth: One & Other
Fourth Plinth: One & Other - 2,400 people on the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar square for 100 days in 2009
In July 2009 Antony Gormley OBE RA presented One & Other, a Fourth Plinth Commission Members of the public, chosen by lot, were invited to spend one hour on the vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square, London.
Features:
* 2,400 people stood on the fourth plinth the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square for one hour
* Date: 100 days between July to October 2009
* People could choose to do whatever they liked for one hour.
* Thousands of people applied for a slot
* Invitations were based on a random selection
* People were filmed and photographed and people watched from across the world.
* Hundreds of thousands continued to turn to the website long after the project itself was finished.
Karen Ogilvie "performing" between 4:00 and 5:00 pm on 17 July 2009 on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square, London, as part of Antony Gormley's art project One & Other.
By Duncanogi at en.wikipedia. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
- ONE & OTHER | Antony Gormley
ONE & OTHER, FOURTH PLINTH COMMISSION, TRAFALGAR SQUARE, LONDON, 20096 July - 14 October 2009 - One & Other - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One & Other was a public art project by Antony Gormley, in which 2,400 members of the public occupied the usually vacant fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, London, for an hour each for 100 days. The project began at 9 am on Monday 6 July 2009, an - The People's Plinth | Comment if Free | The Guardian
The people's plinth (Thursday 26 February 2009)In my new project for Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth, ordinary citizens will take the place of lifeless statues - The future of the fourth plinth | Culture | guardian.co.uk
Today, the mayor of London unveiled the winners of the next fourth plinth commission for London's Trafalgar Square. See the winning designs by Antony Gormley and Yinka Shonibare - The Guardian| Fourth plinth: He wanted to scrap it. Now Boris Johnson could be on it
The Guardian 23rd June 2008If the artist has his way, one of the first people on the empty Trafalgar Square plinth could be the mayor. - One and Other by Antony Gormley: review - Telegraph
For a hundred days in 2009, 2,400 people were hoisted in turn onto the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square and, for an hour, were able to do whatever they wanted - legality permitting - as their contribution to Antony Gormley's One and Other.Mart
The idea of Boris not having anything to say and simply standing there, with his hair blowing in the wind, and actually looking at the city that he's come to be the mayor of might be a very nice thing
— Antony Gormley | The Guardian: Fourth plinth: He wanted to scrap it. Now Boris Johnson could be on iBOOK: One and Other - by Anthony Gormley
Another Place
Another Place - figures on the sand - and in the sea - at Crosby Beach
Another Place, Antony Gormley, Crosby
By Tony Grist (Photographer's own files) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Features:
* 17 life-size cast iron sculptures of the artist's own body. The figures stare out the Irish Sea. They're also almost all covered in barnacles as most are submerged at high tide.
* Permanent Location: Crosby Beach in Sefton - near Liverpool. (Originally made for the Elbe in Germany and displayed in several other places in Europe)
* Sefton Council agreed in 2007 that the sculptures could remain there on a permanent basis
Video: Another Place
YouTube - video of "Antony Gormley - Another Place"
Video: Another Place
- Another Place - Antony Gormley
History of Another Place - Another Place - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Another Place From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchThis article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. No cleanup reason has been specified. Please help improve this article if you can. (August 2011)For - Antony Gormley's Another Place | Sefton Council
Another Place consists of 100 cast-iron, life-size figures spread out along three kilometers of the foreshore, stretching almost one kilometre out to sea.
Blind Light
Blind Light - Hayward Gallery: 17 May - 19 August 2007
- Antony Gormley: Blind Light | Southbank Centre
a series of large-scale installations, including several newly commissioned works that dramatically engage with the gallery's architecture and directly solicit the viewer's engagement - Antony Gormley
Website of British sculptor Antony Gormley, creator of the Angel of the North, Field for the British Isles, and Quantum Cloud. - Antony Gormley | Culture | theguardian.com
Blind Light at the Hayward Gallery is Antony Gormley's first major exhibition in London. The show features a series of new monumental works specially designed for the gallery's cavernous spaces, alongside…
Video: Blind Light
Video: Blind Light at the Hayward Gallery
BOOK: Antony Gormley: Blind Light
Field for the British Isles
‘twenty-five tons of clay energised by fire, sensitised by touch and made conscious by being given eyes ... a field of gazes which looks at the observer making him or her its subject.’
— Antony Gormley - about "Field of the British IslesAntony Gormley talks to the National Trust about "Field For The British Isles"
Field for the British Isles
The book for this very popular exhibition is currently unavailable
The exhibition has been mounted in various locations. It comprises 40,000 miniature terracotta figures which were handmade in 1993 by a hundred people( ages 7 to 70) in St. Helens, Merseyside.
- Antony Gormley website - Field for the British Isles
The 200,000 body-surrogates completely occupy the space in which they are installed, taking the form of the building and excluding us, but allowing visual access. - Antony Gormley website - article by Adrian Searle about Field for the British Isles
ADRIAN SEARLE - FIELD FOR THE BRITISH ISLES, 1996Pamphlet: FIELD FOR THE BRITISH ISLES, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, 1996 Antony Gormley's FIELD FOR THE BRITISH ISLES is a startling and arresting sight - FIELD FOR THE BRITISH ISLES | Antony Gormley
FIELD FOR THE BRITISH ISLES is installed in the ancient setting of Torre Abbey in Torquay. - Field (sculpture) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Field (1991) is a sculpture by British artist Antony Gormley. It consists of approx. 35,000 [1] individual terracotta figures, each between 8 and 26 cm high, installed on the floor of a room facing the viewer. - Antony Gormley: Testing A World View (Field of British Isles) | Tate
Antony Gormley: Testing A World View Field of British Isles past exhibition at Tate Liverpool 1994 - Antony Gormley: Field | Tate
Antony Gormley: Field: past Tate Liverpool exhibition - The terracotta warriors of Ilminster: 40,000 clay figures move in to empty Tudor manor house | Mail
It took five days to place the humanoid characters into position across the ground floor of Barrington Court, a National Trust Property near Ilminster in Somerset. - BBC News - Antony Gormley displays clay men at Barrington Court
Barrington Court, Somerset, is filled with Antony Gormley’s acclaimed work Field for the British Isles, consisting of 40,000 small clay figures. - Antony Gormley: Field for the British Isles | Southbank Centre
ANTONY GORMLEY: FIELD FOR THE BRITISH ISLES09 July - 06 November 2005The British sculptor, Antony Gormley, is renowned for his distinctive representations of the human form. Field for the British Isles is one of his most famous works of art.
Model
BOOK: Antony Gormley: Model
The book of the Exhibition - at White Cube in Bermondsey
Antony Gormley: Model
"Fabricated from 100 tons of weathering sheet steel, Antony Gormley's "Model" is both sculpture and building--human in form but at no point visible as a total figure"
- Antony Gormley Model Bermondsey 2012 | White Cube
Antony Gormley - ModelWhite Cube Bermondsey28 November 2012 – 10 February 2013 Challenging the physical possibilities of the gallery space, this ambitious exhibition investigated our experience of architecture through the body and of the body through - Antony Gormley, Model, White Cube, Bermondsey, review - Telegraph
Antony Gormley's impressive new installation, Model, at the White Cube gallery is the culmination of ten years work on how the human body relates to architecture - Antony Gormley's Model: 'I've made a body you can actually go in' | Art and design | theguardian.com
Artist says his show at White Cube Bermondsey, south London, is an exciting breakthrough after 30 years of human forms - Antony Gormley: Model | Time Out London
I'm crouched within Antony Gormley's latest sculptural installation, 'Model', the centrepiece of his new exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey, tentatively feeling... - Antony Gormley: Model, White Cube, Bermondsey, London - FT.com
Antony Gormley is the people’s sculptor. From the outset of his career in the early 1980s he has announced his commitment to the human figure in an era when other leading sculptors – Richard Serra, Anish Kapoor, Rachel Whiteread – snubbed it in - Antony Gormley: a model of hype? | Art and design | theguardian.com
Could it be that now he's fallen off the art world's fashion hitlist, Gormley's work can be seen as it is – quotidian and overrated
Antony Gormley - work in museums and art galleries
- Google Maps Map of where you can find works by Antony Gormley
Do you have a work by Antony Gormley near you? - Antony Gormley Across Britain - Angel Of The North To The Iron Man - 24 Hour Museum - official guide
24 Hour Museum is the UK's official guide to over 3,000 museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage attractions.This guide tells you where to find Antony Gormley's work throughout the UK, in public spaces (mostly for free), in museums, galleries and - Antony Gormley Across Britain - Gormley in the Open
24 Hour Museum - Gormley in the Open, includingAngel of the North, GatesheadAnother Place, Crosby Beach, LiverpoolEvent Horizon, 31 statues displayed on buildings around London - Antony Gormley Across Britain - Gormley Indoors
24 Hour Museum - Gormley Indoors includingBody & Light drawings, British Museum Prints and Drawings RoomSound II, Winchester Cathedral, HampshireUntitled (The Diver), Southampton City Art GalleryThe Arts Council has 'Field for the British Isles' - BT Series - Antony Gormley
An interview with Antony GormleyTo view the BT Series you need the Macromedia Flash Player and a JavaScript enabled browser. - Tate Britain - Antony Gormley
Images of works in Antony Gormley in Tate Britain - ANTONY GORMLEY / BLIND LIGHT
Antony Gormley Blind Light at the Hayward - Londonist: Londonist Stalks...Antony Gormley
Londonist Stalks...Antony GormleyWell, the big man's in town - over thirty times - so we thought it apt to track down his other work in the capital. On the map at the bottom, green points indicate temporary installations that form the Event Horizon p - White Cube - Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley has over the past 25 years revitalised the human form in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation. "I am interested in the body", he says, "because it is the place where emotions are - Antony Gormley Model Bermondsey 2012 | White Cube
Antony Gormley - Model - 28 November 2012 – 10 February 2013White Cube, BermondseyChallenging the physical possibilities of the gallery space, this ambitious exhibition investigates our experience of architecture through the body and of the body thro - Antony Gormley: a model of hype? | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
Could it be that now he's fallen off the art world's fashion hitlist, Gormley's work can be seen as it is – quotidian and overrated - Antony Gormley, Model, White Cube, Bermondsey, review - Telegraph
Antony Gormley's impressive new installation, Model, at the White Cube gallery is the culmination of ten years work on how the human body relates to architecture, writes Florence Waters.
Event Horizon
Video: Event Horizon
Gormley's Sculpture and Installations in Europe
Still Standing
BOOK: Still Standing: Antony Gormley
The book of an exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, from September 23, 2011- January 15, 2012
Antony Gormley - Still Standing
Antony Gormley - Still Standing
White Cub - Hoxton Square
13 July – 15 September 2012
Still Standing: A contemporary intervention in the classical collection
The New Hermitage, St Petersburg
Rooms N108, N109
23 September, 2011 – 15 January, 2012
- Antony Gormley White Cube Exhibitions Still Standing Hoxton Square 2012 | White Cube
An exhibition of cast iron blockworks by Antony Gormley. These sculptures were also shown in Gormley's exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg in 2011. - Antony Gormley 'Still Standing', Hermitage 2011 | White Cube
Antony GormleyStill StandingIn this film, Antony Gormley discusses his exhibition Still Standing: A contemporary intervention in the classical collections at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (2011). - Antony Gormley website - News
STILL STANDING, STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM, ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, 2011 - 201223 September 2011 - 15 January 2012
Meter
BOOK: Antony Gormley: Meter
Antony Gormley: Meter
METER with new sculptures by Antony Gormley at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Mirabellplatz 2, Salzburg
- METER - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
In the exhibition METER, in the Villa Kast in Salzburg, Gormley explores scale and the relativity of any measurement, encouraging viewers to experience anew their own physical presence in space. - Att Observed | Salzburg - Antony Gormley: Meter at Thaddeus Ropac Through July 13th, 2013 - AO Art O
Antony Gormley’s sculptures continually revisit the human form, using a variety of principles in measurement, position, space and density to chart the human body through sharp angles and jutting lines.
Gormley's Sculpture and Installations in the Usa
Event Horizon (in the USA)
Event Horizon
- Images - Antony Gormley: Event Horizon in New York
Images of Event Horizon in New York 2010 - New York Times - Interlopers on the Skyline
SITTING in his studio here, a converted warehouse north of King's Cross, on a recent chilly morning, the artist Antony Gormley was talking about the sensation he was hoping to cause with "Event Horizon," his first public art project in New York. - Antony Gormley: Event Horizon New York - urbanbydesign - Urban By Design Online
Antony Gormley: Event Horizon New York
VIDEO: Gormley scouts sites for Event Horizon in New York
A first look at the planning of Antony Gormley's Event Horizon, presented by The Madison Square Park Conservancy as part of Mad. Sq. Art 2010.
On view March 26 through August 15,2010 at Madison Square Park, New York City.
Visit eventhorizonnewyork.org and madisonsquarepark.org for more information.
BOOKS: About Antony Gormley
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