Antony Gormley: Spirituality and the Body

Antony Gormley is a sculptor who is widely acclaimed for his installations that investigate the human body and condition. Throughout his artistic career, Gormley has been awarded many prizes, including the Turner Prize in 1994, the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999, and the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture in 2007, among many more. Gormley critiques the human-centric beliefs of Catholicism, with the beliefs of cosmology where the human presence is seen as irrelevant to the greater whole. Continue reading →