Travelogue: Holding Mr Gormley’s Hand On Crosby Beach – Visiting Another Place
It’s surprising what makes your bucket list. It can be something exotic, expensive or difficult to attain. Or it can just be something that lodges in your brain and your gut for an unknown reason, and needs acting upon. That’s what happened to me with Antony Gormley’s set of sculptures on Crosby Beach. Heading to Another Place, Crosby Beach A few years back I met some of Antony Gormley’s cast iron, life size figures, which are spread out the foreshore at Crosby. Known as Another Place, the installation is made up of 100 figures They are all made from casts of the artist’s own body, and shown at different stages of rising from the sand. Antony Gormley states that Another Place “harnesses the ebb and flow of the tide to explore man’s relationship with nature”, saying: “This sculpture exposes to light and time the nakedness of a particular and peculiar body. It is no hero, no ideal, just the industrially reproduced bod...