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etching on wove paper, signed in pencil
edition 194/250
Dimensions: 74cm x 57cm framed
Provenance: published by Sadler's Wells, London
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley CH OBE RA, 1950 -
Antony Gormley is a British sculptor. His works include the Angel of the North, 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), Sao Paulo (2012) and Hong Kong (2015–16).
Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space.
Gormley was born in Hampstead, London, the youngest of seven children, to a German mother (maiden name Brauninger) and a father of Irish descent. The ancestral homeland of the Gormley Clan (Irish: Ó Goirmleadhaigh) in Ulster was east County Donegal,
Gormley attended Ampleforth College, a Benedictine boarding school in Yorkshire before reading Archaeology, Anthropology, and the History of Art at Trinity College,Cambridge, from 1968 to 1971. He travelled to India and Ceylon / Sri Lanka to learn more about Buddhism between 1971 and 1974. When Gormley returned to England, and inspired by his time in India, he made one of his first artworks, Sleeping Place, by laying a plaster-soaked sheet over a friend. Its hollow plaster shell hinted at the form of a body and recalled the people Gormley saw asleep in India wrapped in saris or dhotis.
After attending St Martins School of Art and Goldsmiths in London from 1974, he completed his studies with a postgraduate course in sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art, between 1977 and 1979.
etching on wove paper, signed in pencil
edition 194/250
Dimensions: 74cm x 57cm framed
Provenance: published by Sadler's Wells, London
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley CH OBE RA, 1950 -
Antony Gormley is a British sculptor. His works include the Angel of the North, 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), Sao Paulo (2012) and Hong Kong (2015–16).
Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space.
Gormley was born in Hampstead, London, the youngest of seven children, to a German mother (maiden name Brauninger) and a father of Irish descent. The ancestral homeland of the Gormley Clan (Irish: Ó Goirmleadhaigh) in Ulster was east County Donegal,
Gormley attended Ampleforth College, a Benedictine boarding school in Yorkshire before reading Archaeology, Anthropology, and the History of Art at Trinity College,Cambridge, from 1968 to 1971. He travelled to India and Ceylon / Sri Lanka to learn more about Buddhism between 1971 and 1974. When Gormley returned to England, and inspired by his time in India, he made one of his first artworks, Sleeping Place, by laying a plaster-soaked sheet over a friend. Its hollow plaster shell hinted at the form of a body and recalled the people Gormley saw asleep in India wrapped in saris or dhotis.
After attending St Martins School of Art and Goldsmiths in London from 1974, he completed his studies with a postgraduate course in sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art, between 1977 and 1979.