Anthony Gormley was born in 1950, London. From 1968 he studied archaeology, anthropology, and art history at the Trinity College, Cambridge University. After graduation, he travelled to India and Sri Lanka, and other places to explore the eastern mind because of his new interest: Buddhism and meditation. Then he came back to London and studied at Goldsmiths College and Slade School of Art.

 Gormley won the Turner Prize in 1994 and other prizes throughout his career. In his work, he shows prominence in public art in particular. As he understands the body as a place that holds memory and its changes, says, “[body] is the place where emotions are most directly registered. When you feel frightened, when you feel excited, happy, depressed somehow the body registers it.”

 He places human form in a certain scene to suggest a change in the viewer’s perspective or creates work like the Field project in where he made small human figures with the help of 500 assistants to extend how the body is understood. Like this, he has proven his passion for the body over thirty years.