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Antony Gormley RA
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Biography
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Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950. Upon completing his studies
at Trinity College, Cambridge, he travelled to India, returning to
London three years later to study for at the Central School of Art,
Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Art. Throughout his career,
Gormley has used his own body as an archetype, the starting point from
which to explore the relationships between bodies and the contexts which
they inhabit, primarily through the medium of sculpture. Over this time
he has created some of the most ambitious and recognisable works of the
past two decades including Field, The Angel of the North and, most
recently, Quantum Cloud for the Millennium Dome in Greenwich. He has
created large-scale installations in Cuxhaven in Germany, at the Royal
Academy in London, has participated in group shows such as the Venice
Biennale and Documenta 8, and has had solo exhibitions at the
Whitechapel Gallery, the Serpentine Gallery and White Cube. He was
awarded the Turner Prize in 1994 and the South Bank prize in 1999. He
was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 2003. |
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