Tony Cragg (1949) is a British sculptor who currently lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany. Cragg is known for his exploration of unconventional materials, including plastic, fiberglass, bronze, and Kevlar. Craggs’ sculptures embody a frozen moment of movement, resulting in swirling abstractions. “I’m an absolute materialist, and for me material is exciting and ultimately sublime,” he has said. Eschewing factory fabrication of his works, Cragg has been known to merge contemporary industrial materials with the suggestion of the functional forms of mundane objects and ancient vessels—like jars, bottles, and test tubes—resulting in sublime, sinuous, and twisting forms.

Solo shows

2019 Tony Cragg: Stacks, Lisson Gallery, London

2019 Tony Cragg - Stacks, Galerie Klüser, Munich

2018 Tony Cragg, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin

His works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among others.

Sculptor Tony Cragg discusses the development of sculpture, from antiquity to today, underscoring the profound and expressive power of materials throughout. Related ideas: Materials as a language: https://youtu.be/sDpSJcv7Rbs