Antony Mark David Gormley was born on 30th August, 1950 in London, England. He studies art history, anthropology and archaeology between 1968 and 971 at the Trinity College in Cambridge. Following his graduation, he travelled to Sri Lanka and India to study Buddhism. On his return to England, he enrolled in the Goldsmiths College in London. In 1979 he finished a graduate degree from the Slade School of Art. His interest and education in the spiritual and mystic are prevalent in his work. His figures represent all men and he persuades the viewer to reflect on the perception of the body within time and space. This British sculptor was famous for the his artistic style that was the exploration of the body as well as the body’s relationship to the environment. He did this by creating casts of his own body made of lead. The themes of his artwork were based on spiritual awareness and mortality. In the early years of the 1980s, Gormley started using his own body as lead casts in his sculptures. These pieces of art are a reinvention of figurative sculpture, in terms of their intention as well as in terms of their setting. His sculptures assume every poses, which are sometimes vulnerable, such as crouching, kneeling, sitting or standing. These forms lack clear features and uncovered welding lines that... show more

Antony Mark David Gormley was born on 30th August, 1950 in London, England. He studies art history, anthropology and archaeology between 1968 and 971 at the Trinity College in Cambridge. Following his graduation, he travelled to Sri Lanka and India to study Buddhism. On his return to England, he enrolled in the Goldsmiths College in London. In 1979 he finished a graduate degree from the Slade School of Art. His interest and education in the spiritual and mystic are prevalent in his work. His figures represent all men and he persuades the viewer to reflect on the perception of the body within time and space. This British sculptor was famous for the his artistic style that was the exploration of the body as well as the body’s relationship to the environment. He did this by creating casts of his own body made of lead. The themes of his artwork were based on spiritual awareness and mortality. In the early years of the 1980s, Gormley started using his own body as lead casts in his sculptures. These pieces of art are a reinvention of figurative sculpture, in terms of their intention as well as in terms of their setting. His sculptures assume every poses, which are sometimes vulnerable, such as crouching, kneeling, sitting or standing. These forms lack clear features and uncovered welding lines that draw the attention of the viewer away from the finish and surface detail to the sculpture in its surroundings. Gormley was frequently handed assignments to create art for public spaces. This enabled him to take his art outside the confines of the gallery to the urban environments atop buildings, to beaches. He even took it to a major freeway in Gateshead, England in 1998, creating an imposing sculpture measuring 66 feet (20 meters) in height and 177 feet (54 meters) in width in the form of Angel of the North. He also worked in partnership on public works. An example of his collaborated work is the Field for the British Isles created in 1994 for which he won the British Turner Prize in the same year. Field is part of a series of work that Gormley reproduced over many years at different sites with the help of local communities. As a consequence, he worked with 300 locals in China in the Hudau District in Guangzhou creating the Asian Field in 2003. This is made up of small clay figures adding upto 120,000 in number. Each of the work in the series is unique, the common factor begin the rough design and medium of each figure. Antony Mark David Gormley’s works of art include: Bed created between 1980 and 1981, part of the Tate Collection, London, England; Untitled (For Francis) created in 1985 part of the Tate Collection, London, England; Sound" created in 1986 at Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, England; Field created in 1991 and subsequent re-creations that are at various locations; Testing a World View created in 1993 part of the Tate Collection, London, England; fran: Man created in 1993 at Birmingham, England; Another Place created in 1997 at Crosby Beach, Liverpool, England; Angel of the North created in 1998 at Gateshead, England; Quantum Cloud created in 1999 at Greenwich, London, England.
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