Sarah Morris
Department South (Capital), 2001
350 Regent’s Place

Sarah Morris was born in the UK and educated at Brown University, New York, and Jesus College, Cambridge. Her work explores life in the contemporary Western metropolis and in recent years she has increasingly focussed on the modernist highrise buildings that are its ultimate symbols of power and prosperity.

The paintings of Sarah Morris tread a fine line between isometric abstraction and ornamental pattern. The hard edges of her subjects are effortlessly modulated by shifts of colour and rhythm.

Antony Gormley
Reflection, 2001
350 Regent’s Place

Antony Gormley is a formidable talent in the field of post-war British sculpture. Educated at Trinity College Cambridge and then at the Central School of Art, Goldsmith’s College and the Slade School, his work is on public exhibition across four continents. His best known – and most controversial – piece is his massive ‘Angel of the North’ figure beside the A1 near Gateshead.

Two life-size figures, separated by a sheet of glass, invite speculation. Is the subject studying his own reflection, or confronting a doppelgänger? The stillness and sense of mystery implicit in the encounter is enhanced by its taking place barely yards from the busy Euston Road – an intensely emotional moment isolated in a seemingly alien and oblivious world.