Tony Cragg RA
Biography

Born in Liverpool in 1939. He worked as a laboratory technician at the Natural Rubber Producers Research Association 1966/8 before attending Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, and the Royal College of Art1973-77. He has lived and worked in Germany, since 1977. He was elected RA in 1994. In the summer of 1999 the forecourt of Burlington House was given over to an installation of his new work. These bronze sculptures, developed to a degree of complexity 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 form the first exhibition on the Terrace of Somerset House 2001.