Antony Gormley
Sign in to saveAlso known as Antony Mark David Gormley, Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, Anthony Gormley
British sculptor (born 1950)
Key facts
- Born
- Antony Mark David Gormley , ( 1950-08-30 ) 30 August 1950 (age 75) , Hampstead , London, England
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge Saint Martin's School of Art Goldsmiths, University of London Slade School of Fine Art
- Known for
- Sculpture, installation art , public artworks
- Spouse
- Vicken Parsons ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1980 )
- Awards
- Turner Prize (1994) South Bank Prize for Visual Art (1999) Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture (2007) Obayashi Prize (2012) Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture (2013) Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture (2015)
- Website
- www .antonygormley .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- honorary doctorate
- Notable work
- Quantum Cloud
- Participant in
- documenta 8
- Field of work
- art of sculpture
- Genre
- public art
- Movement
- contemporary art
- Official website
- www.antonygormley.com
- Image
- Antony Gormley Встреча с Гормли на выставке crop.jpg
- Work location
- 's-Hertogenbosch
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- member of
- Royal Academy of Arts
- Commons gallery
- Antony Gormley
- Commons category
- Antony Gormley
- date of birth
- 1950-08-00
- Commons Creator page
- Antony Gormley
- has works in the collection
- Artscape Nordland
- start of work period
- 1973-01-01
- end of work period
- 2010-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Gormley's Sound II in the crypt beneath Winchester Cathedral Pair of figures separated by plate glass, Regent's Place, London One of 31 life-sized figures on London's skyline in Event Horizon Another Place (1997) where 100 cast-iron figures face out to sea on Crosby Beach, near Liverpool Iron: Man (1993), in its former location in Victoria Square, Birmingham. It has since been relocated, nearby Antony Gormley and David Chipperfield's Sculpture for an objective experience of architecture (2008), Kivik Art Centre, Sweden Exposure (2010), in Lelystad, the Netherlands Land at Lowsonford, 2015 Untitled (for Francis) 1985 at the Tate Modern Clasp at Newcastle University, 2018
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool; and Event Horizon, a multipart site installation which premiered in London in 2007, then subsequently in Madison Square in New York City (2010), São Paulo (2012) and Hong Kong (2015–16).
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