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Anthony Gormley - Field

We have been learning about Museums and are using the sculptor Anthony Gormley (his best known works include Angel of the North) as an example.

His sculpture ' Field'  exhibits the work of 200,000 people who made a sculpture using the following instructions:
  • Take a hand size ball of clay, form it between the hands, into a body surrogate as quickly as possible.
  • Place it at arm’s length in front of you and give it eyes.
It was important that it was through the repeated action of touching, forming, placing apart from the body and making conscious, that each person found their own form.

The extraordinary thing was the distinctiveness of the forms that were found.

 Anthony Gormley Original Flowering Shrubs Original