The Harefield Heart Science Centre is delighted to announce the presentation by Antony Gormley of a sculpture to be installed on the roof of our Centre. The sculpure was formally dedicated to the concept of research, inspiration and human endeavour by the Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Thursday, 24th March, 2005.

Over the last 20 years Antony Gormley has revitalised the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation, using his own body as subject, tool and material. Since 1990 he has expanded his concern with the human condition to explore the collective body and the relationship between self and other in large-scale installations like Allotment, Critical Mass, Another Place, Angel of the North and most recently Domain Field and Inside Australia.

His work, Making Space, is part of a recent series of sculptures which attempt to translate a living moment of a specific body into form through the laws of construction, engineering and mathematics. These works are a crystallisation, a condensation of the subjective experience of the internal nature of the body into an objective form, a unitary object made out of many parts, through what the artist calls “a form of physical thinking.” He donates the work to Harefield in recognition of its role as a centre for the advancement of research into the physical basis for consciousness.