(1949 - )
Tony Cragg is an internationally renowned British sculptor who lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany. He is part of a generation of sculptors who came to prominence in Britain during the 1980s and which included the artists Antony Gormley, Richard Wentworth, Anish Kapoor and Alison Wilding. Cragg was born in Liverpool and studied at Wimbledon School of Art (1969-72) and then at the Royal College of Art in London (1973-77). Cragg was awarded the Tate Gallery’s Turner Prize in 1988, having also been shortlisted three years earlier. He was the British representative at the prestigious Venice Biennale in 1988, and has been a member of the Royal Academy since 1994.
