Antony Gormley

About this book

An authoritative survey of the work of Sir Antony Gormley OBE RA accompanying his Royal Academy exhibition. The sculptor Antony Gormley has become a household name thanks to prominent public installations and major solo shows. Awarded the Turner Prize in 1994 he was knighted in 2014. From the Angel of the North (1998) to the hundred cast-iron life-size human figures that populate Crosby Beach in Liverpool his works often explore the human body and its relationship to the space it inhabits. In this authoritative survey the leading scientist and writer on cosmology Priyamvada Natarajan explores the role of space and light in Gormleys work. Michael Newman places Gormley within the British sculptural tradition while Jeanette Winterson OBE adds her personal response to Gormleys sculpture. Martin Caiger-Smith introduces this body of work exploring the roots of Gormleys practice and the role that public sculpture can play in the twenty-first century. This book accompanied an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts London (21 September to 3 December 2019).