Antony Gormley Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950. Upon completing a degree in archaeology, anthropology and the history of art at Trinity College, Cambridge, he travelled to India, returning to London three years later to study for at the Central School of Art, Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Art. Over the last 20 years Antony Gormley has revitalised the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation into the body as a place of memory and transformation, using his own body as subject, tool and material. Recently the sculpture has made a paradigm shift from a preoccupation with mass, volume and skin, to a concern with the body as an energy field; an exploding random matrix of elements extending into light and space. He has created some of the most ambitious and recognisable works of the past two decades including Field, The Angel of the North and, most recently, Quantum Cloud on the Thames in Greenwich. He has shown his work internationally for two decades and created large-scale installations in Cuxhaven in Germany, at the Royal Academy in London, has participated in group shows such as the Venice Biennale and Documenta 8, and has had solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery, the Serpentine Gallery, Tate St. Ives, the British Museum and White Cube. He was made an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997, awarded the Turner Prize in 1994 and the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999. He is a former member of the Board of the Arts Council of England.