100 life-sized sculptures installed at Houghton Hall

100 life-sized cast-iron sculptures have been put in at North Norfolk’s Houghton Corridor forward of its reopening later this month.

The set up of the 100 works marks the primary time Antony Gormley’s large-scale work might be staged within the UK.

The sculptures, every weighing 620kg and standing at a mean of 191cm, are distributed throughout 300 acres of the park, the furthest away being roughly 1.5 miles from its centre.

Antony Gormley, Time Horizon, 2006, forged iron, 100 components, every 189 × 53 × 29 cm. Set up Houghton Corridor, Norfolk, 2024 (Theo Christelis) 2

Round 1 / 4 of the works are positioned on concrete columns that adjust from a number of centimetres excessive to rising 4 meters off the bottom.

Gormley stated of the set up: “The standard of the sunshine, the time of the yr, the state of the climate and the situation of your thoughts, physique and soul are all implicated within the discipline, as is all of the proof inside it of human exercise already completed in addition to the plethora of life types that encompass the corridor.”

The set up is a part of Houghton Arts Basis’s efforts to construct a set of up to date artwork at Houghton Corridor, together with numerous site-specific commissions. Additionally programmed for this yr is an exhibition of sculptures made and sited in response to the state rooms at Houghton Corridor by artist Dame Magdalene Odundo.

A bunch of recent works might be offered within the nice Stone Corridor, as will a brand new fee created throughout Odundo’s current residency at Wedgwood, reflecting on the historical past of the corporate, Josiah Wedgwood’s position within the abolitionist motion and the continued battle for racial equality.