‘WITNESS: Early Lead Works’ reintroduces audiences to these seminal sculptures, tracing how Gormley’s early experimentations with the material laid the groundwork for many subsequent bodies of work.

The studios would play host to the creative production of painter and graphic artist Tom Phillips, and sculptor Antony Gormley, both of whom lived a short walk away from the site. The studios were ...

To mark the momentous sporting occasion, the Angel of the North, Antony Gormley’s famous Gateshead monument, sported a Newcastle football jersey, drawing hordes of fans to the hilltop sculpture.