Antony Gormley
Casts his own body, puts it on beaches and rooftops, and made an angel out of Gateshead steel.
Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950, read archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge, spent three years in India studying Buddhism, and then trained at Saint Martins and the Slade. Almost the entire body of work proceeds from a single method: casting his own body, usually with the help of his wife Vicken Parsons, and using that as a unit. The Angel of the North went up at Gateshead in 1998; Another Place put a hundred iron figures into the tide at Crosby; Field fills a room with tens of thousands of small clay figures made by local communities. He won the Turner Prize in 1994.
Large sculpture is made in editions, generally small, in cast iron, steel or bronze, and cast number, foundry and installation requirements matter — many works are engineered for a specific mounting and the fixings form part of the piece. Cast iron works installed outdoors are intended to rust, so surface oxidation is not damage, but structural corrosion is. Gormley draws constantly in carbon, casein and body fluids on heavy paper, and these are unique, numerous and comparatively accessible. There is a modest print output.
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