Antony Gormley

Dates: b.1950

Gender: Male

Nationality: British

‘How do you make memory? What is the relationship between memory and anticipation? Can you make something that is physical which at the same time evokes the process of remembering? Read more…

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‘How do you make memory? What is the relationship between memory and anticipation? Can you make something that is physical which at the same time evokes the process of remembering? Is it possible to do this and make something fresh, like dew or frost – something that just is, as if its form had always been like this.’ Antony Gormley, Thoughts on Domain Field in Winchester Great Hall British sculptor Antony Gormley has become synonymous with British contemporary sculpture inciting a regeneration of interest in the human form on both intimate and monumental scales. Gormley is best known for his solitary metal figures that even when installed in groups retain their sense of solitude and reflection. Gormley describes his work as ‘an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance where we all live.’ 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.’ His work attempts to treat the body not as a thing 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. (1) Among his best-known works are the Angel of the North in Gateshead, Quantum Cloud on the Thames in Greenwich and Blind Light exhibited at The Hayward Gallery in 2007. Gormley has exhibited at the Venice Biennale and Documenta 8. Forthcoming commissions include the fourth plinth at Trafalgar square He was the recipient of the Turner Prize in 1994. (1) "Antony Gormley." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 16 Mar 2009, 13:30 UTC. 18 Mar 2009 .