Gormley plans 48m sculpture for Dublin docklands

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2007 / August 23

Sculptor Antony Gormley has released the first images of his proposal for a public artwork in Dublin's docklands. He plans to create a 48-metre high metal figure on the river Liffey. Commissioned by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, the figure will be constructed from an open latticework of steel, coated with bitumen. As with the majority of his work, it is based on casts taken of his own body. Pending planning permission, it will be sited on the seaward side of the Seán O'Casey Bridge, rising directly and dramatically out of the water where, says the DDDA, it will be "a signpost for the realignment of Dublin's epicentre eastwards". Gormley, one of the leading artists of his generation, is best known for his Angel of the North in Gateshead, which was completed in 1998. This monumental metal figure, with its arms extended, initially aroused some adverse comment but has become one of the best known artistic landmarks in Europe.

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