{"title":"Antony Gormley","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture since the 1960s through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental questions of where human beings stand in relation to nature and the cosmos. Gormley continually tries to identify the space of art as a place of becoming in which new behaviours, thoughts and feelings can arise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGormley’s work has been widely exhibited throughout the UK and internationally with exhibitions at Galerie Rudolfinum (2024); Musée Rodin, Paris (2023); Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (2022); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (2022); National Gallery Singapore, Singapore (2021); Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen (2021); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2019); Delos, Greece (2019); Uffizi Gallery, Florence (2019); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (2019); Long Museum, Shanghai (2017); National Portrait Gallery, London (2016); Forte di Belvedere, Florence (2015); Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (2014); Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia (2012); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2012); The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (2011); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2010); Hayward Gallery, London (2007); Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (1993) and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (1989). Permanent public works include the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAngel of the North\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Gateshead, England),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnother Place\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Crosby Beach, England),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eInside Australia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Lake Ballard, Western Australia),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eExposure\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(Lelystad, the Netherlands),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChord\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlert\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(Imperial College London, England).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGormley was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999, the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture in 2007, the Obayashi Prize in 2012 and the Praemium Imperiale in 2013. In 1997 he was made an Officer of the British Empire, in 2014 was made a knight in the New Year’s Honours list and in 2025 was appointed Companion of Honour for his services to art in the King’s Birthday Honours list. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, an Honorary Doctor of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity and Jesus Colleges, Cambridge. Gormley has been a Royal Academician since 2003.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntony Gormley was born in London in 1950.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"antony-gormley-shelter-edition","title":"Shelter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis edition is limited to one per customer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShelter\u003c\/em\u003e is a limited edition print by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.biennial.com\/artists\/antony-gormley\/\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSir Antony Gormley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e made \u003c\/span\u003efor Liverpool Biennial's 25\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAnniversary. Gormley's \u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eiconic legacy commission \u003cem\u003eAnother Place\u003c\/em\u003e (2005) on Crosby Beach in Liverpool continues to attract thousands of visitors each year.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artist explains:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'For me, drawing is an oracular process: tuning into the behaviour of substances as much as to the behaviour of the unconscious, like reading images in tea leaves. It is an open and fluid process in which medium and imagery intertwine to evoke rather than describe form and feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn some senses these kinds of drawings make themselves: I am simply a witness, or instigator. They come about by flooding the paper with water and then, with a fully saturated Chinese brush, allowing its touch to spread pigment. The interpenetration of mineral and water happens in time and is dependent on season and temperature as much as my will or ability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe original drawing for \u003cem\u003eShelter\u003c\/em\u003e was made in my studio in Norfolk, a place of long horizons interrupted by stands of ash, beech, and oak, often overtaken by ivy, rambling rose, and hawthorn. Out of the studio window you see the weather coming across open fields – light, water, and solid merge and blur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eShelter\u003c\/em\u003e the spreading fields of pigment evoke a form that is both landscape and body crouching close to the ground. The dark, deep pool suggests the infinite space of thought and feeling that we find inside the body: a space of imagination and potential.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAntony Gormley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShelter (2023)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhoto-polymer gravure on Velin arches Blanc 270 gsm paper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSheet size 215 x 190 mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePlate size 95 x 70mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition of 100\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnframed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSigned and numbered by the artist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eProceeds from your purchase directly support \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eLiverpool Biennial’s new commissions, exhibitions, talks and education programmes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAntony Gormley, Shelter, 2023. © Robin Clewley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antony Gormley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55816966013303,"sku":"Plinth455","price":900.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0876\/2222\/files\/AntonyGormley_Shelter_2023..jpg?v=1758558585"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0876\/2222\/collections\/AntonyGormley_Shelter_2023..jpg?v=1758558970","url":"https:\/\/plinth.uk.com\/collections\/antony-gormley.oembed","provider":"Plinth","version":"1.0","type":"link"}