Tony Cragg

Tony Cragg is a British sculpture artist who uses found materials and recycles them into sculpted art.
anything from household waste to construction refuse.

Cragg takes mostly broken up bits of colour plastic, creating very tactile, vibrant pieces of mosaic designs for walls and floors. His concern for our environment and wanting to restrict the amount of pollution reflects in his work, by savaging waste products and transforming them into works of art we learn to see waste in a new way, which may encourage us to recycle more.




I really like the arrangement of Cragg's work, I think it's clever, how he compiles each individual piece according to the nature of it, such as matching each piece of broken up bits of plastic to its own color, his organisation is contrasting to the idea of waste, as when we throw something away, unless we're recycling it into specific bins, we don't really tend to care if it looks neat, but this is another way Cragg reinvents waste.