Antony Gormley (born London, 1950) is a British sculptor best known for using the human body, often his own, as the starting point for works about presence and place. After studying archaeology, anthropology and art history at Trinity College, Cambridge, he spent time in India and Sri Lanka, where Buddhist thought shaped his outlook. He later trained at Saint Martin’s School of Art, Goldsmiths, and the Slade.
Since the late 1970s, Gormley has cast the body in materials such as iron and lead to consider how we occupy space and relate to our environment. His public projects include Angel of the North (1998) overlooking Gateshead, Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, which placed life size figures on rooftops in several cities. He has also made large-scale installations from thousands of small clay figures, notably Field and Field for the British Isles.
Gormley won the Turner Prize in 1994, was appointed OBE in 1997, and was knighted in 2014. He lives and works in London, continuing to explore how sculpture can frame human experience in the world around.