Artist+Presentation+-+Tony+Cragg

=Tony Cragg (born 1949) is a [|British] -born [|sculptor/ artist] .= Cragg was born in [|Liverpool]; following a period of work as a laboratory technician he first studied [|art] on the foundation course at the[|Gloucestershire College of Art and Design], Cheltenham and then at the [|Wimbledon School of Art] 1969-1973. During this period he was taught by Roger Ackling, who introduced him to the sculptors [|Richard Long] and [|Bill Woodrow]. He completed his studies at[|Royal College of Art] 1973-1977 where he was a contemporary of [|Richard Wentworth]. He left Britain in 1977 and moved to[|Wuppertal] in [|Germany], where he has lived and worked since. Cragg also has a studio on the island [|Tjörn] on the [|Swedish] in west coast. The [|Nordic Watercolour Museum] at Tjörn had a Tony Cragg exhibition in 2007.