Antony Gormley

Acquired directly from the artist

Gateshead, BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art, Antony Gormley: Domain Field, 2003
Winchester, The Great Hall, Domain Field at Winchester: Antony Gormley, 2004
Tilberg, AeBe Fabrieken, Fundament Foundation, Space: Now and Then, 2005

Domain Field, BALTIC, Gateshead 2003, n.p
Michael Mack, Ed., Antony Gormley, London 2007, p. 528, illustrated

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the illustration fails to convey the shiny metallic medium of the sculpture. Condition: This work is in very good condition.
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"Commissioning and producing Domain Field was a challenge and an adventure for BALTIC, encapsulating its ambition to place commissions at the heart of its programme.  It was also a brilliant opportunity to engage the imagination and participation of hundreds of people from the North East of England. Over 900 people aged from two-and-a-half to eighty-five volunteered, and 287 were successful in becoming volunteer models - to be moulded in plaster and immortalized in Gormley's evocative piece.

In Domain, Gormley illustrates the body as a sculptural entity, comprised through various lengths of welded steel rods. They appear as if floating, providing the shape of the human body with the sense of weightlessness, despite the industrial material Gormley chooses to use. The body becomes an open matrix, where the viewer is completely aware of the human presence, but also simultaneously its absence.

As Gormley states, "How do you evoke the body as a place rather than a thing - a place of awareness open to the changing conditions of the weather? How do you express energy without illustrating muscular movement? The Domain was a breakthrough substituting space and light for mass and structure. There is no skin, each of those trajectories stops where the skin was: internal antennae charting the place where we all live - the other side of appearance."

Gormley's gift of one of the development works for Domain Field - Domain XXXII -  is another marker of his long-standing relationship with the Gallery. Proceeds of the sale will go to supporting the further development of BALTIC's ambitious commissioning programme, as a central part of bringing the very best international contemporary art to North East England."

Sir Ian Wrigglesworth
Chairman of Trustees
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art