Inside Australia

When Antony Gormley stepped onto the surface of a vast, million-year-old salt lake in one of the remotest parts of Australia, he was there to install a remarkable art work that would stretch over ten square kilometres and consist of more than fifty sculptures. Now drawing thousands of visitors from all over the world to its remote site, the work is stunning in its effect. Huge in scale, it remains intensely intimate; standing still and silent, the 'Insiders' appear and disappear across the exposed and desolate landscape. 'Inside Australia' tells the whole story of the work's creation, from Gormley's receiving the permission of local Aboriginal elders and his persuading the people of Menzies to take part, to the hazardous casting and back-breaking installation of the sculptures.