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© Antony Gormley. Photos: Dudley Hubbard.
 
© Antony Gormley. © Antony Gormley, Photo: Adam Spiers.
An internationally acclaimed artist, Antony Gormley is best known for his monumental sculpture Angel of the North. This earth-bound figure with its massive wings shares with all of Gormely's work a preoccupation both with the human form and with our shared spiritual potential.
Antony Gormley's early lead and iron figures were cast from his own body. They demand a physical and emotional response, but they also raise profound philosophical questions about memory, the mind, and our senses. Some of his sculptures, such as the tiny sleeping figure modelled on his infant daughter Still IV, are intensley private. Other works, like Field for the British Isles and Allotment II, are sweeping social and architectural explorations on a grand scale.
Bed is made from hundreds of loaves of sliced white bread, and the spectacular Quantum Cloud was created alongside the Millennium Dome in London.
Text taken from the video Antony Gormley by Illuminations' theEYE series. Tate Gallery Teacher's Notes are available as PDF here. |
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