Jointly organised by the British Council and the Hong Kong Museum of Art and supported by the Hong Kong Art Fair, a talk titled "The Body as Workshop" by Turner Prize winning artist, Antony Gormley, was held on 29 May, 2010.

Click the links below to view some video clips taken at the talk!  

• On the body (Firmament and Sleeping Place)
• Re-interpreting the role of art: Personal experience of space (Drawn)
• Interacting with artworks: Imagination, memory and nature (Inside Australia)
• Time and Space: Understanding time and existence (Another Place)
• Seeing and being seen (Feeling Material XIII, Breathing Room and Blind Light)

Antony Gormley at the post-talk reception

About Antony Gormley

Born in London, Antony Gormley graduated from Cambridge, Central School of Art and Goldsmiths. His work is exhibited and collected in all the major museums in the world. He works with a variety of materials, but the majority of his work is concerned with the body. In 1994 he was awarded the Turner Prize for Field for the British Isles, and his public sculpture Angel of the North has been the landmark of Gateshead since 1998.

Some of his most notable works include Field (American) (1991), Amazonian Field (1992), European Field (1993), Asian Field (2003), Sound II (1986), Iron: Man (1993), Havmann (1994), Another Place (1997), Angel of the North (1995/1998), Quantum Cloud (2000), Filter (2002), Event Horizon (2007) and One & Other (2009).

Gormley was made an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997 for his services in sculpture. He has held honorary fellowships at the Royal Institute of British Architects, Trinity College and Jesus College of Cambridge. He is also a trustee of British Museum and a Royal Academician.

ASIAN FIELD, 2003
Installation view, ICA Singapore, Singapore, 2005

ANOTHER PLACE, 1997
Installation view, Crosby, Merseyside, UK, 2005