Artist Spotlight: Antony Gormley (b. 1960)

Feeling Material XIV
Antony Gormley (b. 1950)
4mm square section mila steel bar
88.5 x 85.75 x 67 in. 
(224.8 x 219.9 x 170.7 cm)
​executed in 2005

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Antony Gormley is from the UK and has been in many exhibitions throughout the world. Some of his most famous works of art is Angel of the North, located in Gateshead, England, and Event Horizon. Antony Gormley focuses on sculptures, installations, and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. Gormley describes his work as "an attempt to materialise the place at which the other side of appearance where we all live." Also, he says that his work "is not symbolic but indexical-- a trace of a real event of a real body in time."  Gormley continually tries to identify the space of art as a place of becoming in which new behaviours, thoughts and feelings can arise.
Article here about his childhood and talks somewhat about how his style is unique to him as an artist and what it means to Gormley.

​More sculptures by Gormley:

Questions:
1) What does the space mean to Gormley when he is creating a work of art?
2) What about Gormley's siblings and/or childhood could have made an influence in his work?
3) What other events or stages did Gormley experience in his past that could also have made a big impact in his work and the meaning as a whole?