Antony Gormley: ‘I nearly pulled out when a paper ran a story headlined: Nazi but nice’I was rather standoffish at first. There was a site near Gateshead,an old pithead, and the local council wanted to build something. I believe there’d been some kind of international competition, and but they hadn’t been terribly pleased with the results. I said: “I don’t design art for motorways.” But then I saw a photograph of this mound on the hill,with a deep valley below. It looked like something from the iron age, really extraordinary. So I went for a peek. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com