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Born 1949 Liverpool, England. Known for: Sculptor-mod ceramic, graphics.
Born in Liverpool, England, Tony Cragg became one of the leading contemporary installation* artists of the later part of the 20th century. He is known for the wide diversity and unpredictability of... Read full biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Tony Cragg became one of the leading contemporary installation* artists of the later part of the 20th century. He is known for the wide diversity and unpredictability of his materials which include glass, porcelain, rubber, tree trunks and metals--anything that is in the... Read full biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Tony Cragg became one of the leading contemporary installation* artists of the later part of the 20th century. He is known for the wide diversity and unpredictability of his materials which include glass, porcelain, rubber, tree trunks and metals--anything that is in the material world. He first worked as a laboratory technician, and then studied at Wimbledon School of Art, and from 1973 to 1977, the Royal College of Art. He taught at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf... Read full biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Tony Cragg became one of the leading contemporary installation* artists of the later part of the 20th century. He is known for the wide diversity and unpredictability of his materials which include glass, porcelain, rubber, tree trunks and metals--anything that is in the material world. He first worked as a laboratory technician, and then studied at Wimbledon School of Art, and from 1973 to 1977, the Royal College of Art. He taught at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf from 1977, and has been a professor since 1988. He works and exhibits occasionally in the United States, but from 1977 has lived in Wuppertal, Germany. In the early 1970s, he worked as a laborer in an iron foundry, but he first earned a reputation as... Read full biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Tony Cragg became one of the leading contemporary installation* artists of the later part of the 20th century. He is known for the wide diversity and unpredictability of his materials which include glass, porcelain, rubber, tree trunks and metals--anything that is in the material world. He first worked as a laboratory technician, and then studied at Wimbledon School of Art, and from 1973 to 1977, the Royal College of Art. He taught at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf from 1977, and has been a professor since 1988. He works and exhibits occasionally in the United States, but from 1977 has lived in Wuppertal, Germany. In the early 1970s, he worked as a laborer in an iron foundry, but he first earned a reputation as a sculptor in 1978 to 1982 for arranging found materials such as plastic, wood and tin cans in abstract imagery.... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Direct Carver, Hand Carving
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Installation Art
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Aluminum/Aluminium
- •Art Pottery
- •Assemblage
- •Bronze
- •Ceramic Art, Porcelain, Design and/or Decoration
- •Ceramics
- •Found Objects, Junk, Recycles
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Marble
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Neon Light, Projected Light, Illumination
- •Painting on Glass, Glass Design, Studio Glass Art
- •Plaster
- •Plastics
- •Stone and/or Limestone
- •Stoneware, Stone, Stonecut, Sandstone
- •Wax
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Post-Minimalist
Art Subject
- •Hand-Crafted Objects
Art School
- •South Kensington Art School, Royal College of Art, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Turner Prize Winner of Tate Modern
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
- •Public Art in Washington DC
- •UBS-Paine Webber Collection
Added Description
- •Ceramic Specialty