Britain Seen from the North 1981 The work here that Cragg has done he has used found pices of plastic that he found then aranged the coulders on the wall in to a picture using the difrent coulders as shading. He first came about using rubbish as one of his materials when he was a student in 1969 and the cost of buying the materials was to exspentcive. At that time in Art, artists were looking more into nature and the industrail world and the big question on The Enviroment came into view, so using rubbish was the normal at that time.
He is British sculptor, born 1949 in Liverpool. He first studied art on the foundation course at the Gloucestershire College of Art and Design.
An artist of great international acclaim and immense energy, Cragg has developed more possibilities in the making of sculpture than any other sculptor since Henry Moore discovered the 'hole' as positive space. He has employed more materials than most, and tested them to their limits through a wide variety of means, so that he seems to be one hundred sculptors at any one time. Cragg's contribution to the debate on contemporary sculpture practice is considerable. Early works of the 1970s were mostly made with found objects through which Cragg questioned and tested possibilities. Later pieces demonstrated a shift of interest to surface quality and how that could be manipulated, and a play with unlikely juxtapositions of materials. Results vary from the exquisite to the grotesque, from the refined to the crude, in bronze, steel, plastic, rubber, glass, wood, plaster and more. Tony Cragg was elected Royal Academician in 1994. In the summer of 1999 the forecourt of Burlington House housed an installation of his new work. These complex bronze sculptures demonstrate his mastery over form and material. A solo exhibition, A New Thing Breathing, was held at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, in spring 2000 and five monumental sculptures formed the first exhibition on the Terrace of Somerset House, London in autumn 2001.
In an interview with Radio 4 he talks about a triangle of Image, Material, Oject. The Image was importaint but then he would look at the material that he had made it out of with then made him look at the object that he has made.
He's says that the majority of his work resolved around that during 1982-1983. Soon after this time he desided to go back in to his studio and go back to basics with exspramenting with new materials eg. sand blasters, making models ect...
His inmrestion of what he wanted his work to look like used to get sent away to craftmen to get made. However when it came back he use usally very disapointed with it. This then gave him the idea fo getting assestent to assest him in makeing his work. Everything that is done to the pice would get cheaked then re-cheacked over with him before it would go ahead. Some quotes that I picked out of the interview:
"Making things is an exsperance", "You have to lisen to the material"
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