Antony Gormley

Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. 

His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998, Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, a multi-part site installation which premiered in London in 2007, around Madison Square in New York City, in 2010, in São Paulo, in 2012, and in Hong Kong in 2015-16.

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In 2008 The Daily Telegraph ranked Gormley number 4 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".

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Gormley describes his work as "an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance where we all live." 

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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." 

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His work attempts to treat the body not as an object 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 won the Turner Prize in 1994 with Field for the British Isles. He was quoted as saying that he was "embarrassed and guilty to have won...In the moment of winning there is a sense the others have been diminished. I know artists who've been seriously knocked off their perches through disappointment.” 

Current exhibitions:

SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (SFMOMA)

May 14th, 2016 – May 14th, 2020

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BEING, HALL ART FOUNDATION, SCHLOSS DERNEBURG, GERMANY, 2017 - 2018