Antony Gormley

Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally with exhibitions at major museums across the world. Antony Gormley Studio is now seeking an Operations Director, to support the Studio Director in leading the studio team of around 60 people across four sites. Gormley’s ambition for the future is to make more permanent projects and continue the critically acclaimed placemaking work that is at the heart of his practice.

The Operations Director is a new leadership role at the studio responsible for participating in long term planning with Antony and the Studio Director, managing key people in the team and ensuring that our people, processes and infrastructure enable us to deliver our project commitments whilst constantly developing new work and ideas.  The Operations Director will be joining the Studio at a moment of change as we articulate our ambition to make more permanent projects. The Operations Director will use their overview of our work to seek opportunities to broaden the Studio’s capabilities through the coordination of partnerships and systems across our sites. The Studio is a highly adaptable ever-changing environment in which new ways of working are constantly being drawn, designed, evolved, and materialised. We look forward to the Operations Director bringing their wealth of skill and considerable experience to this team that are already committed to finding ways of doing and making that are ever better, more efficient and more sustainable.

We are seeking a leader who will occupy a key role as the Studio moves into its next decade of work. Our Operations Director will be passionate about nurturing an organisation’s people, developing its structures and allowing it to flourish in order to realise ambitious work in the U.K. and around the world.

Saxton Bampfylde Ltd is acting as an employment agency advisor to Antony Gormley on this appointment. For further information about the role, including details about how to apply, please visit www.saxbam.com/appointments using reference PAZZKB.  Alternatively telephone +44 (0)20 7227 0880 (during office hours). Applications should be received by noon on Friday 8^th July 2022.