Antony Gormley

Quick Facts

Full Name	Antony Gormley
Occupation	Sculptor
Date Of Birth	Aug 30, 1950(1950-08-30)
Age	74
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Leo

Antony Gormley Biography

Antony Gormley is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on August 30, 1950 in London, England, United Kingdom. Artist who is most famous for his installation work “Angel of the North” in 1998 in addition to “Another Place” for Crosby Beach close to Liverpool.

He as well as fellow artist Henry Moore were both born in England.

Gormley was the youngest of seven children born to a German mother and a father of Irish descent. His paternal grandfather was an Irish Catholic from Derry who settled in Walsall in Staffordshire. The ancestral homeland of the Gormley Clan (Irish: Ó Goirmleadhaigh) in Ulster was East Donegal and West Tyrone, with most people in both Derry City and Strabane being of County Donegal origin. Gormley has stated that his parents chose his initials, “AMDG”, to have the inference Ad maiorem Dei gloriam – “to the greater glory of God”. Gormley grew up in a Roman Catholic family living in Hampstead Garden Suburb. He 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 the Dominion of Ceylon / Sri Lanka to learn more about Buddhism between 1971 and

1974. After attending Saint Martin’s 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, University College, London, between 1977 and

While at the Slade, he met Vicken Parsons, who was to become his assistant and, in 1980, his wife, as well as a successful artist in her own right. Gormley said of her:

He was raised with six siblings, as well as the child of an Irish father and a German mother and an Irish father.

Antony Gormley Net Worth

Antony Gormley is one of the richest Sculptor from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Antony Gormley 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He completed his studies in anthropology and the history of India in Trinity College, Cambridge. He was taught Buddhism during his period during his time in India as well as Sri Lanka from 1971 until 1974.

The work of his “Event Horizon,” was displayed at Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2012.

Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, OBE (born 30 August 1950), is a British sculptor. His works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture 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 multi-part site installation which premiered in London in 2007, around Madison Square in New York City, in 2010, in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2012, and in Hong Kong in 2015–16.

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Who is Antony Gormley Dating?

According to our records, Antony Gormley married to Vicken Parsons. As of December 1, 2023, Antony Gormley’s is not dating anyone.

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In 2007, Gormley’s Event Horizon, consisting of 31 life-size and anatomically correct casts of his body, four in cast iron and 27 in fiberglass, was installed on top of prominent buildings along London’s South Bank, and installed in locations around New York City’s Madison Square in 2010. Gormley said of the New York site that “Within the condensed environment of Manhattan’s topography, the level of tension between the palpable, the perceivable and the imaginable is heightened because of the density and scale of the buildings” and that in this context, the project should “activate the skyline in order to encourage people to look around. In this process of looking and finding, or looking and seeking, one perhaps re-assess one’s own position in the world and becomes aware of one’s status of embedment.” Critic Howard Halle said that “Using distance and attendant shifts of scale within the very fabric of the city, [Event Horizon] creates a metaphor for urban life and all the contradictory associations – alienation, ambition, anonymity, fame – it entails.”

Facts & Trivia

Antony Ranked on the list of most popular Sculptor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Antony Gormley celebrates birthday on August 30 of every year.

In July 2009, Gormley presented One & Other, a Fourth Plinth commission, an invitation for members of the public, chosen by lot, to spend one hour on the vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square in London. This “living art” happening initially attracted much media attention. It even became a topic of discussion on the long-running BBC radio drama series The Archers, where Gormley made an appearance as himself.

Top Facts about Antony Gormley

1. Antony Gormley is a British sculptor born in 1950.
2. He is best known for his sculptures of the human body.
3. His most famous work is the Angel of the North.
4. Gormley won the Turner Prize in 1994.
5. He has exhibited worldwide, including at the Venice Biennale.
6. The artist’s works often explore themes of space and time.
7. Gormley’s sculptures are made from a variety of materials, including steel and concrete.
8. He was awarded an OBE in 1997 and a knighthood in 2014.
9. The artist has created public installations around the world, including Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, UK.
10. Gormley’s work challenges traditional notions of sculpture and its relationship to space and architecture.

What is Antony Gormley famous for?

Antony Gormley, in full Antony Mark David Gormley, (born August 30, 1950, London, England), British sculptor and draftsman best known for his work with human forms, which he created chiefly from casts of his own naked body.

What is the meaning of another place by Antony Gormley?

Speaking in 2005, Antony Gormley said the installation was the poetic response to the individual and universal sentiments associated with emigration – sadness at leaving, but the hope of a new future in Another Place.

What was Antony Gormley first sculpture?

1. Bed , 1980-81. Bed was one of the first works Antony Gormley made after graduating from the Slade, and it was shown soon afterwards in his first solo exhibition at London’s Whitechapel Gallery.

What type of art is Antony Gormley?

Contemporary art

Are the iron men still on Crosby Beach?

How to see the Iron Men of Crosby Beach. The statues are a permanent feature of Crosby beach and can be seen all year round. You can either drive (use postcode L23 6SX) or you can take the train from Liverpool Central station to Blundellsands (only 20 minutes).