Antony Gormley

Have you ever seen a giant statue of a person? Antony Gormley is a super cool artist who makes them! He is a sculptor, which means he shapes things, often out of metal.

His most famous work is the Angel of the North. Imagine a giant angel with wings as wide as a few school buses! It stands so tall, it's like looking up at a tall building.

Gormley's sculptures are often of the human body, but they are HUGE!

Antony Gormley's sculptures don't just stay in one place. One of his artworks, called Another Place, has lots of metal people standing on a beach. They look like they are watching the waves come in!

Another artwork, Event Horizon, has many of these human shapes placed on top of buildings in cities like London and New York. It's like a treasure hunt to find them all! They are placed in places where lots of people can see them and wonder about them.

These giant sculptures make us stop and think. When you see a huge metal person standing on a beach or on a building, it makes you feel small but also curious. Antony Gormley wants his art to make people think about their own bodies and their place in the world. It's like the sculptures are saying, 'Hello! I'm here, and so are you!' They can be a bit mysterious and exciting to discover.

Creating these giant sculptures is a big job! Antony Gormley often makes a mold of his own body. This is like making a giant footprint of himself. Then, he uses this mold to create the sculpture, often using metal like iron. It takes a lot of planning and hard work to build something so big and put it in a public place. It's like building a giant Lego castle, but much, much harder!