Antony Gormley

Sir Antony Mark David Gormley OBE RA (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 multipart site installation which premiered in London in 2007, then subsequently in Madison Square in New York City (2010), São Paulo, Brazil (2012), and Hong Kong (2015–16).

Sir

Antony Gormley

OBE RA
Gormley in 2011
Born
Antony Mark David Gormley

(1950-08-30) 30 August 1950
Hampstead, London, England
Education
Known forSculpture, Installation Art, Public Artworks
Spouse
Vicken Parsons
(m. 1980)
Children3
Awards
  • Turner Prize (1994)
  • South Bank Prize for Visual Art (1999)
  • Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture (2007)
  • Obayashi Prize (2012)
  • Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture (2013)
  • Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture (2015)
Websitewww.antonygormley.com
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