About Antony Gormley - British Sculptor
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Antony Gormley - British Sculptor
This lens is about 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.
The drawing is one I did of Antony Gormley while speaking about his drawings at the Jerwood
"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.
The drawing is one I did of Antony Gormley while speaking about his drawings at the Jerwood
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- NEW BOOK: One and Other
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- Another Place by Antony Gormley
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The Angel of the North by Antony Gormley
near Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, England (photo by David Wilson Clarke)
Antony Gormley - official website - life and works
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.
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.
- Antony Gormley
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- Antony Gormley - Short Personal Biography
- Short Personal Biography (2008)
- Antony Gormley - Public Collections Containing Gormley's Work
- Public Collections Containing Gormley's Work (2008)
- Antony Gormley - Works In Public Places
- Works In Public Places (2008)
- Antony Gormley - One Man Exhibitions
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Flickr - "Angel of the North" by Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley's landmark sculpture in Gateshead
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BOOKS: By Antony Gormley
NEW BOOK: One and Other
by Anthony Gormley
PUBLISHED November 1, 2010
Over a period of 100 days from July to October 2009, 2,400 people stood on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square for one hour. They were free to do as they chose during this period in the spotlight. Nobody could predict what would happen or the scale of the response. Many thousands applied for the 2,400 slots and candidates were selected randomly. Millions watched the events as they were all filmed and available online. Hundreds of thousands continued to turn to the website long after the project itself was finished.
The event was a phenomenon, which we are grappling to understand. The entire enterprise was conceived by Antony Gormley, and can be seen as a further example of the artist's ability to tap into the public consciousness.
This book contains studio portraits of all the 'plinthers' prior to their appearancewith photographs drawn from innumerable sources. The whole event has been remarkably photographed by Clare Richardson and the final edit will be drawn from a selection of 600 of her pictures of 'plinthers and public by day and night. Lee Hall writes about the importance of the square itself as a location.
All the 'plinthers' were subject to extensive interviews set up by an oral history expert and their voices contribute to the creation of a book that is more than a document. The book aims to capture the emotional intensity and the personally transformative effect that was created by one of the most extraordinary works of public art in our time.
Over a period of 100 days from July to October 2009, 2,400 people stood on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square for one hour. They were free to do as they chose during this period in the spotlight. Nobody could predict what would happen or the scale of the response. Many thousands applied for the 2,400 slots and candidates were selected randomly. Millions watched the events as they were all filmed and available online. Hundreds of thousands continued to turn to the website long after the project itself was finished.
The event was a phenomenon, which we are grappling to understand. The entire enterprise was conceived by Antony Gormley, and can be seen as a further example of the artist's ability to tap into the public consciousness.
This book contains studio portraits of all the 'plinthers' prior to their appearancewith photographs drawn from innumerable sources. The whole event has been remarkably photographed by Clare Richardson and the final edit will be drawn from a selection of 600 of her pictures of 'plinthers and public by day and night. Lee Hall writes about the importance of the square itself as a location.
All the 'plinthers' were subject to extensive interviews set up by an oral history expert and their voices contribute to the creation of a book that is more than a document. The book aims to capture the emotional intensity and the personally transformative effect that was created by one of the most extraordinary works of public art in our time.
One and Other
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Antony Gormley OBE RA is an English sculptor. In July 2009 Gormley presented One & Other, a Fourth Plinth Commission, an invitation for members of the public, chosen by lot, to spend one hour on the vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square, London.
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Another Place by Antony Gormley
on Crosby Beach, near Liverpool in England
One of the many life-sized cast iron figures of Antony Gormley's installation Another Place on Crosby Beach, near Liverpool in England. The figures all stare out over the Irish Sea in shared solidarity at the relatively bleak seascape. Most of the figures are submerged at high tide and so are now covered with barnacles.
Photograph by Andrew Dunn
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 to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
- 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 libraries and also provides some web links and teachers' resources.
Rarely out of the arts pages these days, Antony Gormley has become one of the world's most celebrated sculptors and a household name. His sculptures, often based on casts of his own body, adorn public spaces and galleries across the country, from well-known works like Angel of the North to more obscure works only viewable by appointment. web links and teachers' resources. - Antony Gormley Across Britain - Gormley in the Open
- 24 Hour Museum - Gormley in the Open, including
Angel of the North, Gateshead
Another Place, Crosby Beach, Liverpool
Event Horizon, 31 statues displayed on buildings around London - Antony Gormley Across Britain - Gormley Indoors
- 24 Hour Museum - Gormley Indoors including
Body & Light drawings, British Museum Prints and Drawings Room
Sound II, Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
Untitled (The Diver), Southampton City Art Gallery
The Arts Council has 'Field for the British Isles' and there are no current plans to show it although it is expected to be seen again in the future. - ArtisanCam - Artists - British Art Show/Antony Gormley - Timelapse
- Includes Time Lapse video of the assembly of Field for the British Isles
- BT Series - Antony Gormley
- An interview with Antony Gormley
To 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 Gormley
Well, 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 project, and purple markers are permanent pieces that predate this show. - 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 most directly registered. When you feel frightened, when you feel excited, happy, depressed somehow the body registers it."
- Antony Gormley - Critical Mass Image: De La Warr Pavlion 8 May ? August 2010
- Critical Mass, one of Gormley's best known works, is an installation made up of 60 life-size cast iron body forms which will be displayed on the roof of the De La Warr Pavilion.
The artist comments: ?This is the return of the lost subject to the site of Modernism. It is great to have a chance to test this piece of sculpture against the clarity of Mendelsohn and Chemayeff's English masterpiece. I am excited to see these dark forms in the elements against the sea and in direct light. It will be like a sky burial. How these masses act in space is very important. The challenge is to make the distance intimate, internal.?
Antony Gormley - Works in Public Places
- Images - Antony Gormley: Event Horizon
- Images of Event Horizon in New York 2010
BOOKS: About Antony Gormley
Flickr - "Event Horizon" by Antony Gormley
Human shapes on the top of buildings in London
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Radio Interviews with Antony Gormley
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Articles about Antony Gormley
- Leader of the pack | | guardian.co.uk Arts
- 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
Nicholas Wroe
Saturday June 25, 2005 - Fourth plinth: He wanted to scrap it. Now Boris Johnson could be on it | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts
- The Guardian 23rd June 2008
"If the artist has his way, one of the first people on the empty Trafalgar Square plinth could be the mayor. "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," said Antony Gormley.
Gormley was speaking today as it was announced that he and Yinka Shonibare had won the contest to be the next two contemporary artists to fill the fourth plinth." - 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
- Guardian - The people's plinth
- Antony Gormley: In my new project for Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth, ordinary citizens will take the place of lifeless statues
- 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 2007
I'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 £40m steel colossus would have stood next to the main athletics stadium, pointing east to face the rising sun. The public would have entered Gormley's "body" through his feet and scaled the structure inside to reach a viewing deck in the head.
Details of the giant sculpture are revealed for the first time today by The Sunday Times. Gormley's vision was the runner-up in a competition held by Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, to - The non-commissioned sculptor | The Art Newspaper
- Gormley's statue for Imperial War Museum was shot down by Battle of Britain hero
- 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.
Martin Herbert questions whether Antony Gormley's controversial work
gave a voice to the nation
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See Anthony Gormley on drawing - at the Jerwood for notes on Gormley's speaking for the first time ever in public about his drawing.
See Anthony Gormley on drawing - at the Jerwood for notes on Gormley's speaking for the first time ever in public about his drawing.
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makingamark
May 1, 2009 @ 5:54 am | delete
- Thanks Dan - I've added it in and also posted it on Watermarks ( http://watermarks-art.blogspot.com/
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Dan Whitfield
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- There is a great video about Antony Gormley's Another Place here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys3_j_n9-N0
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