Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, (born 30 August 1950) is a British
sculptor. His best known works include the
Angel of the North, a
public sculpture in
Gateshead in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998,
Another Place on
Crosby Beach near
Liverpool, and
Event Horizon, a multi-part site installation which premiered in
London in 2007, around
Madison Square in
New York City, in 2010, in
São Paulo, in 2012, and in
Hong Kong in 2015-16.