Bodies beautiful

As the creator of the world’s largest angel, Sir Antony Gormley, 75, needs no introduction, especially when it comes to two main groups of people: first, those who love art; and second, those who live in or have travelled through Northeast England. After all, his seminal Angel of the North is unmissable — a monumental 20m tall, 200-tonne steel and concrete sculpture with the wingspan of a commercial jet. Overlooking the A1 motorway near Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, it stands sentinel-like, watching over the region.