Golden Kate Moss statue unveiled Aug 29, 2008
The gold artwork will be exhibited with statues by other contemporary artists, including Damien Hirst and Antony Gormley, at the central London museum ... " The exhibition, entitled Statuephilia, will also feature 200 plastic skulls by Damien Hirst. Antony Gormley's Case for an Angel 1, a smaller precursor to his Angel of the North sculpture which overlooks the A1 in Gateshead, will also go on display. Statues by artists Ron Mueck, Tim Noble and Sue Webster will also appear in the exhibition.... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Thousands watch fall of landmark towers Aug 25, 2008
Described by sculptor Antony Gormley as being "to the industrial revolution what cathedrals were to the medieval world", the towers have been a part of Sheffield's landscape since the early 1940s. Thought to be the last pre-50s hyperbolic cooling towers in the country, they formed the backdrop to the award-winning film The Full Monty, about six unemployed steel workers coming to terms with the decline of Sheffield's industry. (guardian.co.uk)
Pillar memorial for 7/7 victims Aug 1, 2008
Antony Gormley has acted as an independent adviser ... Artist Antony Gormley, creator of the Angel of the North, has acted as an independent adviser for the memorial. (BBC News -- UK)
Artworks that put the public centre stage Jul 2, 2008
Antony Gormley, for example, has proposed public auditions for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, with each volunteer occupying the plinth for an hour - a work of art sure to satisfy a society still besotted with reality television. Since the early 1990s, Spencer Tunick has been photographing large groups of nudes in public places, from 1,700 naked people on the quaysides in Gateshead and Newcastle to 18,000 of them in Mexico City's principal square. (guardian.co.uk)
Sotheby's contemporary art sale reaches £94.7 million Jul 2, 2008
Next came a huge cast iron sculpture, "Angel of the North (Life-size Maquette)," conceived by Antony Gormley and executed in 1997 as No.3 from an edition of five. The stylized figure, part human and part bird, rose to 2. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The Fourth Plinth: could you be art? Jun 24, 2008
When Mark Wallinger unveiled Ecce Homo, his life-size sculpture of Christ cast from the body of a former art student, on the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 1999, Antony Gormley must have had a fit ... Antony Gormley's Blind Light at the Hayward was a success in audience art. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Fourth plinth: Gormley to put public on display Jun 24, 2008
"The idea of Boris not having anything to say and simply standing there, with his hair blowing in the wind, and actually looking at the city that he's come to be the mayor of might be a very nice thing," said Antony Gormley. Gormley was speaking today as it was announced that he and Yinka Shonibare had won the contest to be the next two contemporary artists to fill the fourth plinth. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Independent.co.uk Web Jun 24, 2008
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson poses for photographs with Antony Gormley and Yinka Shonibare during the announcement of winning artists of the next two commissions for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square ... After months of discussion, Antony Gormley's "haven for a certain degree of anarchy" became the latest joint winner of the Fourth Plinth project yesterday ... For Antony Gormley's 'haven for a certain degree of anarchy' I suggest a panel of judges - Gormley, Sharon Osborne, Simon Cowell... (Independent)
2008 London literature festival unveiled May 23, 2008
Colm Toibin, Antony Gormley, Sir Ian McKellen and Wendy Cope among the contributors to this year's events ... Comedienne Josie Long will provide an evening of live comedy, while Zaha Hadid and Antony Gormley will take part in a discussion of urbanism. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Paradise regained in Liverpool Apr 13, 2008
Dominic Cooke, director of one of the plays, has compared them to Antony Gormley figures, cropping up all over the capital. The weaker plays (each is named after a massive tome - The Odyssey, Armaggedon) need this ballast: there's little surprise, despite the force, in a play in which a British soldier comes on to a widowed detainee. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
A giant among us Mar 17, 2008
British sculptor Antony Gormley tours the Anchorage Museum expansion project downtown to scope out the site for a sculpture commissioned for the new museum ... Last week a public art selection committee unanimously approved the design by internationally known sculptor Antony Gormley of London. (Anchorage Daily News)
Boris and Benn form an unlikely plinth alliance Mar 8, 2008
But fighting the proposal with equal bombast is a group which includes the current Mayor of London, Labour's Ken Livingstone, the Tate Gallery director, Sir Nicholas Serota, and the White Cube gallery's Jay Jopling, as well as the artists such as Antony Gormley and Grayson Perry. They insist that a rolling series of contemporary artworks, which has featured Marc Quinn's naked and pregnant statue of Alison Lapper, best suits the plinth's function. (Independent)
Antony Gormley: Firmament at the White Cube, Masons Yard, SW1 Mar 7, 2008
Antony Gormley: Firmament at the White Cube, Mason s Yard, SW1 - Times Online ... Antony Gormley: Firmament at the White Cube, Mason s Yard, SW1 ... When it comes to the work of Antony Gormley you can t help wondering, because ever since that monumental mannequin The Angel of the North put him quite literally on the map, he has been churning out variants of the same figurative sort. (Times Online)
Classical music shows strength on Anchorage radio airwaves Feb 25, 2008
Famed London sculptor Antony Gormley has been chosen to create a major public art piece for the expansion of the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center. Not all Alaska artists are happy about it. (Anchorage Daily News)
Auction for AidsBono, Banksy and Hirst join forces for charity art sale Feb 15, 2008
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Couples mark Angel anniversary Feb 14, 2008
The iconic 20m (66ft) sculpture, created by Antony Gormley, overlooks the A1 motorway and has become one of the UK's best-known pieces of art. The ceremony is just one of many events planned during 2008 to mark the anniversary milestone. (BBC News -- UK)
Banksy in Ken's corner Feb 1, 2008
According to the mayor's campaign team, Banksy is creating a work which will go on sale in March alongside pieces from Antony Gormley, who created the Angel of the North, and Jeremy Deller, who won the Turner prize in 2004. The race to become mayor of London does not officially begin until March but Livingstone's battle with Boris Johnson already promises to be the closest - and most bitter - contest since the post was established eight years ago. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Emin condemns the British Council Jan 13, 2008
Other signatories include Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota, Gilbert e, Joanna Lumley, Melvyn Bragg and Antony Gormley. Speaking to the newspaper artist Rachel Whiteread said: "It's appalling really, considering the amount the British Council has done over the years for highlighting British contemporary art all over the world and helping it have an enormous reputation.". (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Art on a pedestal Jan 12, 2008
A sextet of serious names in serious competition forms a dazzling line-up: leading sculptors Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor, both in their 50s and at the peak of their careers; mixed-media political artists Jeremy Deller and Yinka Shonibare, a decade younger, who faced each other as Turner Prize nominees a few years ago; populist outsiders Tracey Emin and Bob and Roberta Smith, both born in 1963. Their proposals vary in brains, wit, seriousness of purpose and formal beauty, but each brings a... (Financial Times)
Letter: Dismay at British Council art cuts Jan 12, 2008
Anthony Abrahams, Shazeela Alim, Sam Bakkabulindi, Dr Wendy Baron OBE, Emmanuel Basaza, Lewis Biggs Director, Liverpool Biennial, Sir Peter Blake, Quentin Blake, Iwona Blazwick Director, Whitechapel Art Gallery, OBE, Lord Melvyn Bragg of Wigton, Ralph Brown, Jon Buck, Louisa Buck The Art Newspaper, Anthony Bukenya, David Bwambale, Richard Calvocoressi Director, Henry Moore Foundation, Jeffrey Camp RA, Sir Anthony Caro OM CBE, Eva Chadwick, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Sarah Jane Checkland, Emma... (Guardian Unlimited)
Changes at British Council 'appalling' Jan 12, 2008
The signatories also include artists Sir Peter Blake, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gilbert and George, Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Anish Kapoor, Sam Taylor-Wood, Gavin Turk and Mark Wallinger. The leaders of some of Britain's most important galleries have also signed, including the Tate's Sir Nicholas Serota, Stephen Deuchar of Tate Britain, and Sir Norman Rosenthal and Charles Saumarez Smith of the Royal Academy. (Guardian Unlimited)
Wanted: 8,760 living statues Jan 10, 2008
Now Antony Gormley has set his sights on a plinth in Trafalgar Square - and he wants your help ... Antony Gormley turns and smiles, only slightly demoniacally. (Guardian Unlimited)
A statue for London: The battle of Trafalgar (square, that is) Jan 9, 2008
Antony Gormley prefers members of the public ... Antony Gormley's proposal to winch up 8,760 members of the public, for an hour at a time, to use the plinth as their soapbox was pitted against Jeremy Deller's idea to bring over the remains of a burnt-out car from the streets of Iraq to hoist atop the plinth and Yinka Shonibare's plan to fill the stone statue base with a replica of Lord Nelson's HMS Victory inside a giant bottle ... Antony Gormley ONE AND OTHER. (Independent)
In PicturesMeerkats, mirrors or people? Artists unveil Trafalgar Square ideas Jan 9, 2008
Antony Gormley wants members of the public to stand on an empty plinth for an hour, round-the-clock. His proposal One and the Other seeks to showcase real people. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
New art considered for Trafalgar Square Jan 9, 2008
The British sculptor Antony Gormley is proposing the plinth be occupied around the clock by members of the public more than 8,700 over the course of a year who would volunteer for hourlong shifts. Gormley said the project would raise themes of "diversity, vulnerability and the individual in contemporary society.". (Yahoo News)
Six artists square up in new battle of Trafalgar Jan 9, 2008
It was Antony Gormley who came up with the most fun proposal. He wants the plinth to be empty except for volunteers who will stand on it for an hour at a time, 24 hours a day. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Comment: Adrian Searle Jan 9, 2008
Antony Gormley has wisely refrained from placing another body cast on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth, especially after populating London's rooftops with cast replicas of himself last year. His model plinth is girt about with a sturdy safety net. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Tracey Emin gives meerkats a brush with stardom Jan 6, 2008
Contending with Emin for the chance to exhibit in the square are Turner Prize winners Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor. The winner will be announced this spring. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Flies and formaldehyde: Hirst's gifts to the Tate Dec 14, 2007
Three years ago Hirst was one of 24 artists to pledge significant works as part of Tate's Building the Tate Collection campaign, and while artists such as Antony Gormley, Anthony Caro and Louise Bourgeois had already donated, Hirst had not. The four works include a copy of Mother and Child, Divided (1993) - a cow and calf, each bisected, and displayed in tanks of formaldehyde - which he displayed at the Turner prize in 1995. (Guardian Unlimited)
The winner takes it all in Turner show Dec 7, 2007
Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley benefit from having rooms of their own, as do the films by Douglas Gordon and Gillian Wearing, though Jeremy Deller's thought-provoking film Memory Bucket, about George Bush's home town, is relegated to an alcove. Damien Hirst's bisected cow and calf, Mother and Child Divided, is still a seminal work, grisly and compelling, and demanding a reaction - though it says something about its fragile longevity that this is a new version recently made by the Hirst studio... (Scotsman)
The novel is not dead yet Sep 26, 2007
If a novelist wanted to write about the state of the nation in the mainstream press, or talk about it on the mainstream radio, that wouldn't be weird; whereas it would be quite weird if Antony Gormley were to write a diatribe about modern sculpture. So it is fairly rare to read a totally unsophisticated, philistine account of an individual work of fiction. (Guardian Unlimited)
Turner is agony or ecstasy, say prize winners Sep 8, 2007
Winning the Turner prize in 1994 made sculptor Antony Gormley feel like a "Holocaust survivor". Damien Hirst, on the other hand, said that failing to win it in 1992 "ruined everything for me for a year"; and even when he won in 1995 he found the competitive element so punishing that he declined, he claims, to represent Britain at the 1999 Venice Biennale. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Come in, the waters lovely Jul 4, 2007
Antony Gormley at the Hayward. It s a feng shui sort of talent, a heightened awareness of a location s rhythms and needs. (Times Online)
New museum showcases DNA, amputation saws and Napoleon's toothbrush Jun 21, 2007
Opening exhibits include work by artists such as Antony Gormley and Andy Warhol, as well as anatomical drawings by Leonardo da Vinci. The permanent displays include Aztec sacrificial knives, 19th-century sex aids, amputation saws and a DNA-sequencing robot. (Guardian Unlimited -- Life)
Rooftop statues prompt suicide reports Jun 19, 2007
LONDON (Reuters) - Statues scattered across central London rooftops as part of artist Antony Gormley's latest exhibition are proving a serious headache for police ... A sculpture by British artist Antony Gormley stands on a rooftop overlooking the Hayward Gallery. (Yahoo News)
Venice diary: Emin builds on biennale success Jun 12, 2007
Britain didn't do too badly, though: Mario Testino, Antony Gormley and Tracey Emin all rocked the night away to DJ Norman Cook's surprisingly cheesy tunes. Not even the news that the dancefloor was about to give way could stop the party; everyone simply went downstairs to the ground floor of the palazzo. (Guardian Unlimited)
The human factor May 26, 2007
Antony Gormley's figures stand in glorious solitude on London rooftops, while visitors to his new show find themselves lost in his room of fog ... Blind Light by Antony Gormley ... Antony Gormley is one contemporary artist who declares that his work is related to anthropology. (Guardian Unlimited)
Box-of-fog art installation descends on London May 17, 2007
Visitors face disorienting experience in Antony Gormley Blind Light piece. British artist Antony Gormleys Blind Lightinvites visitors into a box and then surrounds them in a cloud of bright, white thick fog ... Antony Gormleys new Blind Light installation challenges visitors to see for themselves, luring them into a reinforced glass box that then surrounds them in a cloud of bright, white fog so thick even their own feet vanish in the mist. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Infotainment May 16, 2007
British sculptor Antony Gormley Monday unveiled what he himself described as a disorienting work consisting of a glass box which makes those who enter it disappear in a cloud of mist. The Blind Light installation is the highlight of Gormleys latest exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
In picturesSculptor Antony Gormley's box of mist adds to striking career May 16, 2007
In pictures: Antony Gormley. Sculptor Antony Gormley, one of the UK's leading artists, has unveiled his new installation Blind Light at the Hayward Gallery in London. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
All the world is his gallery May 13, 2007
Profile: Antony Gormley ... Viewers of last night's Channel 4 documentary, Antony Gormley: Making Space, did not see the sculptor's potential 'Rosebud' moment, that missing piece in a life's jigsaw ... Antony Gormley can wank on a piece of paper and get it exhibited at the British Museum. (Guardian Unlimited)
Week in picturesA look back at images in the news over the past seven days May 5, 2007
The artist Antony Gormley has created 31 life-sized figures which will appear at London's vantage points. Customers ride the new Infusion rollercoaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. (BBC News)
Heart valve grown from stem cells Apr 2, 2007
Prof Yacoub's inspiration has come not only from other scientists but also from an unexpected source - the celebrated British artist, Antony Gormley, who has donated a sculpture to the heart science centre. "We need a lot of experts from different fields but we also need a lot of imagination and a lot of understanding of how form interacts with function," said Prof Yacoub. (Guardian Unlimited)
Leader: In praise of Antony Gormley Mar 9, 2007
When Antony Gormley went to China to create his Asian Field, he enlisted 300 people aged seven to 76 in the village of Xiang Shan to help him make 192,000 clay figures; Mrs Hu, one of the makers, pronounced the whole thing "very nice". When he went to Gateshead to conjure the Angel of the North on a site above the A1, thousands ignored the warnings of the local council and turned up to watch; Geordies later kitted out the angel with its own Newcastle United shirt. (Guardian Unlimited)
Tate in 5m race to save Turner's 'Blue Rigi' for the nation Jan 23, 2007
Artists including David Hockney, Anish Kapoor, Bridget Riley and Antony Gormley as well as television stars such as Joanna Lumley have already signed up at. The Tate has the biggest collection of Turners in the world, thanks to a bequest from the artist when he died in 1851 aged 76. (Independent)
Walliams in royal appointment Dec 22, 2006
Actress Thandie Newton, artist Antony Gormley and equestrian Zara Phillips - voted the BBC's sports personality of the year - were also present. Walliams joked that his royal host said Little Britain was her favourite show. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
- Jonathan Jones on his definitive list of 50 must-see masterpieces Dec 5, 2006
Antony Gormley's Angel of the North manifests an enduring belief in art and its power - although personally I'm not convinced it lives up to its ambition ... 2 Antony Gormley, The Angel of the North, Gateshead. (Guardian Unlimited)
Making waves Oct 18, 2006
When the sculptor Antony Gormley placed 100 life-size cast-iron figures on a beach near Liverpool, they were supposed to be a temporary installation reflecting mankind's fragile existence ... One of Antony Gormley's cast-iron figures from the installation Another Place on Crosby beach, near Liverpool ... This is Another Place, an installation by Antony Gormley on the beach at Crosby, just north of the docks in Liverpool. (Guardian Unlimited)
80-foot recycled sculpture set alight as thousands watch Oct 1, 2006
The Waste Man, designed by Angel of the North creator Antony Gormley, was the climax to a day of live public performances in Margate, Kent. Teams of volunteers spent two months collecting waste materials and packing them into the sculpture's framework. (BBC News -- UK)
'Waste Man' Sculpture Up In Flames Oct 1, 2006
The so-called Waste Man was put together by the award-winning creator of the Angel of the North Antony Gormley. He enlisted the help of residents to build the structure above Dreamland Fun Fair in Margate using abseilers and pulley systems. (Sky News)
Rodin at the Royal Academy Sep 24, 2006
Geoff Dyer and Antony Gormley contemplate his elusive appeal. Guardian Unlimited. (Guardian Unlimited)
Record year for the Biennale - just check the figures Sep 1, 2006
Field of expertise Kate Coleman, a volunteer, helps pack away the 180,000 terracotta figures that made up the artwork Asian Fields by Antony Gormley ... Ms Burgess is co-ordinating the packing of the 180,000 terracotta figurines featured in Asian Field, an installation by the British artist Antony Gormley. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Arts World Cup: win £2000 High Def TV Jul 4, 2006
INSIDE RIGHT Antony Gormley Very tall, he would be a good header of the ball, and the team s leading goal-scorer. My team s Peter Crouch. (TimesOnline)
Call for Artists: Art in Place Jun 30, 2006
ART IN PLACE - LINKING ART TO ECOLOGY. Peter London, Antony Gormley Randall-Page ... Week 2: The Artist in Nature In week two, Antony Gormley will lead participants in working with the creative media of drawing and clay to investigate the relationship between self and the landscape. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Director unveils vision for South Bank Jun 30, 2006
The Hayward Gallery will host the first museum-scale exhibition of the work of sculptor Antony Gormley, which will feature 32 lifesize sculptural figures on buildings around the gallery - including the Houses of Parliament. The resident orchestras - the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and London Sinfonietta - will work more closely, creating an "informal manifesto" of artistic intent. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
- Stuart Jeffries Jun 23, 2006
There are more Antony Gormley statues of metal men in Birmingham's public places than there are miles of canal or trees. You can't stop him. (Guardian Unlimited)
Making 180,000 figures is one big deal Jun 7, 2006
British artist Antony Gormley sits among the 180,000 figurines that make up Asian Field, part of the Sydney Biennale ... ENGLISH artist Antony Gormley is proving to be a pain in the neck for the Biennale of Sydney. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
