Gormley's figures appear on London's Horizon

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Under the supervision of artist Antony Gormley, the 31 cast iron figures that form his latest work, Event Horizon, are being installed around the Hayward Gallery on the South Bank.

The sculptures, casts of the artist's body, will all look towards the gallery where a major exhibition of Gormley's work opens on 17 May.

The figures will be visible on King's College, the Shell Centre, the National Centre and the Strand by the time the installation is complete.

They will stay in place until the exhibition, Antony Gormley: Blind Light, closes on 19 August. Gormley, who won the Turner Prize in 1994, has used his own body as the starting point of his work for many years.

He has also often produced large-scale works such as the Angel of the North, which overlooks the A 1 in Gateshead.

Today's installation is one of London's most ambitious public art commissions and required planning consent from three different councils.

But Gormley has played down discussion of the scale and described it as "a very subtle change in a very familiar landscape".

"This is just asking where we fit in this landscape," he said.