Antony Gormley

Iron figures would extend four miles out to sea to celebrate shared Celtic and neolithic heritage of UK and Brittany

British artist Antony Gormley creates life-sized sculptures in the shape of human bodies since the early 1980s. Best known for his large-scale artworks ‘Angel of the North‘, ‘Field for the British Isles‘ as well as ‘Quantum Cloud‘, Gormley works with various materials, such as steel and iron, to form the figures’ abstract shapes. In an artist’s […]

The Feeling Material works started with an attempt to describe the space of the body using a matrix formed of rings. I then realised that I could create this l

Antony Gormley's installation consists of 100 iron men on Crosby Beach, looking out to sea. Melanie Veasey writes on their impact: humanising the landscape.

British artist Antony Gormley is well known for his life-size statues which mimic the human body. His Field series, however, represents a different approach.

At a certain point in the late 1990s, I started thinking about the relationship of mass and space as dynamic, taking hand-forged balls and making constellations

antony gormley | lost horizon, 2008, I like how the bodies come from all different directions and it uses the space of the gallery really well.

Life-sized sculptures by Antony Gormley have been placed at five beauty spots around the UK this being the one at Kimmeridge Bay Dorset. The sites were specially selected by the artist and each cast-iron sculpture was designed to complement its surroundings. The commission - entitled Land - was created to mark 50 years of UK building conservation charity Landmark Trust. The nearby Clavell Tower that was moved & renovated by the Trust stands on the cliff above. The five locations are…

This exhibition, Antony Gormley returns repeatedly to the motif of the artist’s own body to explore the significance of differences in scale and the negative space around an artwork.

Antony Gormley, 'Lost Horizon I', 2008 (detail). Pictured here at White Cube, London.