“Antony Gormley uses his own body to examine the physical and spiritual relationships between mankind and the natural world. He says: ‘sculpture, for me, uses the physical as a means to talk about the spirit …a visual means to refer to things which cannot be seen.’” — Tate

“One of the UK’s most iconic artists, Antony Gormley has produced an astonishingly consistent body of work over the last 25 years. Using the human form to explore man’s existence in and relation to the world his sculptures range from vast steel figures, to plaintive masses of tiny clay figures, with his archetypal life-size body casts somewhere in between… He has created some of the most ambitious and memorable works of the past two decades …” — Cape Farewell