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Antony Gormley (born 1950 ) is an English Sculptor . He is best known among the general public as the creator of '' Angel Of The North '', a controversial piece of Public Sculpture in Gateshead . Gormley studied at Ampleforth College . He also studied at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1968 to 1971 before going to India and Sri Lanka to study Buddhism from 1971 to 1974. From 1974 onwards, he attended various colleges in London , completing his studies with a postgraduate course in sculpture at the Slade School Of Art , UCL between 1977 and 1979. Almost all of his work takes the human body as its subject, with his own body used in many works as the basis for Metal Cast s. Gormley's work is, in the words of the artist, is "an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance where we all live" many of his works are based on moulds taken from his own body " the closest experiece of matter that I will ever have and the only part of the material world that I live inside" His work attepts to treat the body not as a thing but a place and in making works that enclose the space of a particular body to identify a condition common to all human beings. The work is not symbolic but indexical - a trace of a real event of a real body in time. Gormley won the Turner Prize in 1994 with '' Field For The British Isles ''. MAJOR WORKS Gormley's website lists over 500 works (the last from 2005). The most notable include:
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