Antony Gormley OBE RA (born 30 August 1950) is an English sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead commissioned in 1995 and erected in February 1998, and Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool.
The youngest of seven children born to a German mother and an Irish father, Gormley grew up in a wealthy family living in Hampstead Garden Suburb, North London. He attended Ampleforth College, a B...
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Antony Gormley OBE RA (born 30 August 1950) is an English sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead commissioned in 1995 and erected in February 1998, and Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool.
The youngest of seven children born to a German mother and an Irish father, Gormley grew up in a wealthy family living in Hampstead Garden Suburb, North London. 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 Sri Lanka to learn more about Buddhism between 1971 and 1974. Attending various colleges in London from 1974, he completed his studies with a postgraduate course in sculpture at the Slade School of Art, University College London, between 1977 and 1979.
His career was given early support by Nicholas Serota who had been a near contemporary of Gormley's at Cambridge...
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