A Jack of All Trades

Tony Cragg is a British sculptor who has been on the art scene since the early 1970s. He was born in 1949 in Liverpool where he worked in a rubber lab until his mid-twenties. Cragg went to college in three places, all prestigious British art schools. He began sculpting abstract pieces out of ordinary objects he found. Cragg is very well known for using just about any material known to man.
His 1970s sculptures are built out of everyday items and usually do not resemble anything identifiable. His employment of numerous materials has led him to test their limits as pieces and made him appear as not one man, but many different sculptors at once.  His early works take shape with items like garbage bin findings and toothbrushes, plastic containers and cups. Most are married together with a rainbow-like color scheme.

His more recent creations are large scale abstracts created from bronze, resin, and steel. Each piece is larger-than-life and some are displayed outside. In 1994, Cragg was elected Royal Academian and had his work displayed in the Burlington House in England. 

An earlier sculpture.

(Mixed Feelings)

(Tounge in Cheek)