Antony Gormley
Inside Australia
Antony Gormley
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| ‘Brilliant and original … this is compelling stuff’ | | – Artists & Illustrators Magazine |
When Antony Gormley stepped onto the surface of a vast, million-year-old salt lake in one of the remotest parts of Australia, he was there to install a remarkable art work that would stretch over ten square kilometres and consist of more than fifty sculptures.
Now drawing thousands of visitors from all over the world to its remote site, the work is stunning in its effect. Huge in scale, it remains intensely intimate; standing still and silent, the ‘Insiders’ appear and disappear across the exposed and desolate landscape.
Inside Australia tells the whole story of the work’s creation, from Gormley’s receiving the permission of local Aboriginal elders and his persuading the people of Menzies to take part, to the hazardous casting and back-breaking installation of the sculptures.
• Photographs, maps and drawings show the entire process in detail, while commentaries from members of the project team explain its different stages.
• Anthropologist Hugh Brody recounts the various human histories that lie like so many layers on the land around the lake, while curator Anthony Bond places the work in the wider context of Gormley’s sculptural oeuvre.
• A beautiful photographic section shows the figures on the surface of the lake. It is here that one feels what it means to be inside the heart of a continent.
Antony Gormley has, since the early 1980s, used his own body to make sculptures which explore the human experience of being in the world. He is perhaps best known for his monumental sculpture 'The Angel of North' in Gateshead, England and recently for 'Blind Light'. He won the Turner Prize in 1994 and his work has been exhibited extensively around the world.
Also of interest
At Home in Australia
Song of the Earth: European Artists and the Landscape
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500285756 | | ISBN-13 978-0500285756 | | | | 24.0 x 20.0 cm | | Paperback with flaps | | 176pp | | 206 illustrations, 118 in colour | | First published 2007 | | | | £16.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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