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Also known as Antony Mark David Gormley, Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, Anthony Gormley

British sculptor (born 1950)

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1950-08-30

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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

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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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