Curated by Martin Caiger-Smith and Sarah Lea.

explores Antony Gormley’s wide-ranging use of organic, industrial and elemental materials over the years, including iron, steel, hand-beaten lead, seawater and clay. It also brings to light rarely-seen early works from the 1970s and 1980s, some of which led to Gormley using his own body as a tool to create work, as well as a selection of his pocket sketchbooks and drawings.

‘I want this exhibition to encourage present, first-hand experience. It will concentrate on the body in space: firstly, the viewer’s body, through a series of proprioceptive environments that enhance awareness, alertness and sensorial space, and secondly in the presentation of discrete objects that evoke what it feels like to inhabit a human body.’

Royal Academy of Arts

, 1999, cast iron, 12 × 28 × 17 cm, edition of 10 plus 4 APs. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.


, 2019, 80 mm weathering steel slab. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

Installation view. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

, 1977-78, lead, 6 × 17 × 17 cm. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.


, 2019, chalk on wall, 196 cm. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

 1978-79, lead, revolver, bottle of wine and machete, largest element approx. 60cm. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

, 2019, bread and wax, 306 × 209.5 × 2 cm. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

, 1981, rubber, 0.6 × 122 × 134 cm, 8 Kg. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

, 2019, 12.7 mm square section 16 swg aluminium tube, dimensions variable. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

, 2019, 10 mm square section mild steel bar, 189 × 51.5 × 37.5 cm. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

, 2019, over 6 tonnes of 6 mm mild steel reinforcing mesh, 710 × 930 × 1515 cm. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

, 2019, 5 mm square section mild steel bar, two horizontal and one vertical dissecting line, dimensions variable. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

, 2008, cast iron, 189 × 53 × 29 cm (32 elements). Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

, 1991/93, cast iron and air, 233 × 265 × 226 cm and 

, 1991/93, cast iron and air, 110.7 × 129.5 × 122.5 cm. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

, 1991/93, cast iron and air, 110.7 × 129.5 × 122.5 cm and 

, 1991/93, cast iron and air, 233 × 265 × 226 cm. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

, 1991, concrete, 74.5 × 62.5 × 60 cm. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

, 2019, 8 mm weathering steel, 1411 × 1137 × 734 cm, 27 tonne. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

 2017, clay, 37.4 × 73.5 × 69.7 cm and 

, 2018, clay, 34.7 × 71.9 × 71.9 cm. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

, 2019, clay and seawater, 23 × 1274 × 1641 cm. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

, 2018, 10 mm mild steel bar, 185 × 52.3 × 40 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

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