1. Tony Cragg first worked as a lab technician for the British Rubber Producers Research Association after high school.
15 Facts About Tony Cragg
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Tony Cragg studied art at Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology, Cheltenham, from 1968 to 1970, and painted at the Wimbledon School of Art, London, from 1970 to 1973.
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Tony Cragg moved to Wuppertal in 1977 because his first wife was from there.
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Tony Cragg was fascinated by the importance of sculpture in Germany, and struck by German seriousness.
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Tony Cragg is currently married to the artist Tatjana Verhasselt.
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Tony Cragg constructed these early works by arranging individual fragments of mixed materials, often according to their artificial colours and profiles, so as to form larger images.
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Since then Tony Cragg has exhibited extensively at many of world's most important art institutions.
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In 1988 Tony Cragg received the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery in London, represented Britain at the 42nd Venice Biennale and was appointed Professor at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf.
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Tony Cragg was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Honorary Doctor of the Royal College of Art, London, Professor at the Universitut der Kunste, Berlin, and began a Professorship at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf.
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In 2011 Tony Cragg exhibited at the Musee du Louvre in Paris, the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh and in 2012 at CAFA Museum in Beijing.
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Tony Cragg stated that he had found his life in Germany and "wouldn't like to experience any disadvantages in the future either".
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The Tony Cragg Foundation is a non-profit general foundation based in Wuppertal.
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Tony Cragg was selected to represent Britain at the 43rd Venice Biennale in 1988, and won the Turner Prize in the same year.
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Tony Cragg was made a CBE for services to art in the 2002 New Year Honours List, and won the Piepenbrock Prize for Sculpture in that year.
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Since 2010, Tony Cragg has been appointed Honorary Fellow of University of the Arts London ; awarded Artist's Medal of Honor of the Hermitage, Russia as well as the Grand Cross 1st Class Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.