Antony Gormley was born in 1950 in London where he currently lives and works. He has exhibited around the world and has major public works on display in the USA, Japan, Australia, Norway, Britain and Ireland. Recent solo exhibitions were presented at the Kunsthal Rotterdam (2008), The Hayward Gallery, London (2007), the Deutscher Bundestag Gallery, Berlin (2007), and the Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina Napoli (2006). In 1997, he made the large-scale installation "Another Place" at the shore of Cuxhaven, Germany, which has also been installed in Stavanger, Norway. In the same year, he made the installation "Total Strangers" at Cologne Kunstverein. In 2004, his installation "European Field" was shown as part of "Être" at the UN office in Geneva for the International Convention on Human Rights. In 1994, Gormley was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize. Gormley is also a prolific writer, and has reflected much on his own practice in relation to the body and the natural environment.