Tribute to Antony Gormley
Our art and campaign teams visited Antony Gormleys “Another Place” exhibit on Crosby beach on Mesrseyside. Gorm our own model based on Gormleys work went along with us to meet the relatives and you can see the photos throughout this publication.
Another Place is a massive installation on Crosby Beach that consists of 100 cast-iron figures, moulded from the artists own body . The ghostly life-size figures are dotted along three kilometres of the Crosby shore.
Winner of the Turner Prize in 1994, Antony Gormley is best known for his controversial sculpture ‘Angel of the North’ which dominates the skyline near Newcastle. He also displayed another of his recent works ‘Field’ at the Tate Liverpool in 2004, a display of thirty-five thousand miniature figures made by a Texca family of brick-makers in Mexico.
The Link Up Campaign team has been using our model of a wheelchair user to highlight areas of poor access around Cheshire by photographing “Gorm” as he is known on locations.
There has been a lot of interest shown in the models, large and small. Vivian Elliot at Scope HQ is approaching Mr Gormley with the project with the aim of getting him involved with Scope in some way. Another Place is about the physical body and it’s relationship to it’s environment so what about a disabled body and it’s relationship?
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