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Gormley, Antony

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Gormley, Antony (1950– ). British sculptor. His work has been mainly concerned with the human figure and is often based on moulds from his own body. He won the Turner Prize in 1994 and achieved much wider fame in 1998 when his enormous Angel of the North was erected near Gateshead, overlooking the A1 motorway, and thereafter quickly became one of Britain's most instantly recognizable sights. Made of steel, it stands 20 m (66 ft) high and has a wingspan of 54 m (177 ft). It was commissioned by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council in 1994, and its creation and erection was a complex industrial undertaking.

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