Edited by Robert Violette
Designed by Peter B. Willberg
 
Printed by Grafiche Milani, Italy
241 × 237 mm, hardback
364 pages, illustrations throughout
ISBN 0-9522690-1-5
Published by Jay Jopling/White Cube, 1996
 
Published to accompany Antony Gormley’s exhibition ‘Body and Light and Other Drawings’ at the Independent Art Space in London in 1996, this catalogue features works on paper created in the six years leading up to the exhibition. Primarily realised in black-and-white, these drawings mediate on the relationship between the body and space, considering the spatial dimensions of consciousness.

The inky, diluted pigment provides fertile ground for fluidity, allowing forms to emerge and dissolve across the page, conjuring up images of bodies immersed in water, susceptible to a fluctuating external environment. Featuring drawings included in the exhibition, many of which were made in the Lake District, this catalogue documents an important part of Gormley’s practice and reflects on the artist’s longstanding inquiry into the condition of the body in relation to both the built world and shifting forms of nature.