In this new series of posts, we’ll explore the histories of key leading contemporary artists and the starting points of their creative practises.
Artist Antony Gormley RA is best known for his large scale sculptural works but he also produces a vast amount of drawings and sketchbooks as part of his practise. Antony is a prolific drawer and he has been producing works on paper for more than four decades. The sketchbooks are a window into Antony’s mind and working process. They include sketches, statements, detailed diagrams, doodles, working out’s, patterns and experiments. They record the variety of approaches used to explore each idea or concept which may include contorted and modified bodies, groups and lists of figures in different poses. Many of the drawings explore the figure in space but they also depict architectural and organic forms. These also include sketches of famous artworks such as the Angel of the North.
In this sketch we can see how Antony explores different forces acting on the body. He has entangled the figure in a kind of linear matrix which pushes and pulls the body into different positions.
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