Here are some facts about Antony Gormley.
- Antony Gormley was born on 30th August 1950 in London, England.
- His mother was German, his father was Irish and he had six siblings.
- He grew up in Dewsbury Moor in West Yorkshire.
- Antony Gormley went to Ampleforth College, a boarding school, and then he went to Trinity College in Cambridge to study archaeology, anthropology and history of art.
- In the early 1970s Antony Gormley travelled to India and Sri Lanka to learn about Buddhism.
- From 1977 to 1979 he went to the Slade School of Fine Art and completed a course in sculpture.
- His first solo exhibition was in 1981 at Whitechapel Art Gallery.
- Most of his sculpture work is based around the form of the human body.
- Many of his sculptures begin with him taking a cast of his own body.
- His work called Asian Field featured 180,000 clay figures.
- Event Horizon was made up of 31 life-size casts of his body and placed on top of buildings in the South Bank, London, and Madison Square, New York.
- He won the Turner Prize in 1994 for his work Field for the British Isles. This work features 35,000 terracotta figures.
- His most famous work is the Angel of the North, a steel sculpture (measuring 20 metres tall), located in Gateshead.
- His other works include: Exposure (located in Lelystad, Netherlands), Habitat (located in Anchorage, Alaska), Horizon Field (located in the Austrian Alps), Quantum Cloud (Greenwich, London) and Planets (located in the British Library, London).
