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Tony Cragg, Over The Earth

Tony CraggOver The Earth, 2014

Bronze

175 x 76 x 285 cm

About the artist

was born in Liverpool, UK in 1949 and has lived and worked in Wuppertal, Germany since 1977. He studied at the Wimbledon School of Art, London (1969-1973) and at the Royal College of Art, London (1973-1977). He taught at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany (1978-2001) and at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, Germany (2001-2006). He was the Director of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany from 2009 to 2013. He held the Chaire de Création Artisque from 2013 to 2014 at the Collége de France in Paris, France. At the 43rd Venice Biennale in 1988 he represented Britain and was awarded the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery, London, UK, in the same year. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1994; In 2002 he was awarded Commander of the British Empire (CBE). He received the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture, Tokyo, Japan (2007); was awarded the 1st Class Order of Merit of Federal Republic of Germany (2012) and was made Knight Bachelor in 2016.

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