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Antony Gormley

Lives and works in London
B. 1950

Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture since the 1960s through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental questions of where human beings stand in relation to nature and the cosmos. Gormley continually tries to identify the space of art as a place of becoming in which new behaviours, thoughts and feelings can arise.

Gormley’s work has been widely exhibited throughout the UK and internationally with exhibitions at venues including Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Germany (2021); The Royal Academy of Arts, London (2019), Delos, Greece (2019); Uffizi Gallery, Florence (2019); the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (2019); Long Museum, Shanghai (2017); Forte di Belvedere, Florence (2015); Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (2014); Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia (2012); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2012); The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (2011); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2010); Hayward Gallery, London (2007); Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (1993) and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (1989). Permanent public works include the Angel of the North (Gateshead, England), Another Place (Crosby Beach, England), Inside Australia (Lake Ballard, Western Australia), Exposure (Lelystad, The Netherlands) and Chord (MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA).

Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999, the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture in 2007, the Obayashi Prize in 2012 and the Praemium Imperiale in 2013. In 1997 he was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) and was made a knight in the New Year’s Honours list in 2014. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, an Honorary Doctor of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity and Jesus Colleges, Cambridge. Gormley has been a Royal Academician since 2003.

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Exhibitions

14 May – 29 August 2022

Northwich, Cheshire, UK

28 November 2012 – 10 February 2013

Bermondsey, London


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Films

In the Studio

Antony Gormley, ‘Body Politic’

Collaborating with documentary filmmaker John O’Rourke, the film offers an unprecedented glimpse into Gormley’s artistic practice and his relationship with processes and materials. Over the course of several months, O’Rourke gained exclusive access to the artist’s fabrication sites across the UK, including his studio in London and foundry in Hexham.

In the Studio

Antony Gormley, ‘Body Politic’

Collaborating with documentary filmmaker John O’Rourke, the film offers an unprecedented glimpse into Gormley’s artistic practice and his relationship with processes and materials.

In the Studio

Antony Gormley

In this film from 2011, Antony Gormley gives a glimpse into his collaborative working method.

In Focus

Antony Gormley, 'Event Horizon'

Antony discusses his project 'Event Horizon', installed throughout Hong Kong from November 2015 to May 2016.

In the Gallery

Antony Gormley, 'Test Sites'

Antony talks about his exhibition, 'Test Sites' at White Cube Mason's Yard in 2010.

In Focus

Antony Gormley, 'Amazonian Field'

Antony reflects on how 'Amazonian Field' evokes our overpopulated world and the continual destruction of our natural environment.

Beyond White Cube

Antony Gormley on 'Still Standing' at The State Hermitage Museum

Antony discusses his exhibition 'Still Standing: A contemporary intervention in the classical collection' at The State Hermitage Museum in 2011.

Beyond White Cube

Martin Caiger-Smith on Antony Gormley's Royal Academy exhibition

Writer Martin Caiger-Smith (Courtauld Institute of Art) explores Antony's Royal Academy exhibition in 2019.



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