Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950. Upon completing a degree in archaeology, anthropology and the history of art at Trinity College, Cambridge, he travelled to India, returning to London three years later to study at the Central School of Art, Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Art. He has been one of the foremost international modern sculptors since the early 1990s, often using his own body as his principal subject, and also abstract.. Some of his works are monumental (The Angel of the North, Gateshead). He won the Turner Prize in 1994 and has exhibited in major museums around the world (Whitechapel, Tate and the Hayward Galleries, the British Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, and the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Germany. A major solo exhibition of his work, was held at the Hayward Gallery in 2007. He has participated in major group shows such as the Venice Biennale and the Kassel Documenta 8. His 'Field' has toured America, Europe and Asia. Angel of the North and, more recently, Quantum Cloud on the Thames in Greenwich are amongst the most celebrated examples of contemporary British sculpture. One of his key installations, Another Place, is to remain permanently on display at Crosby Beach, Merseyside.