Tony Cragg

“We do only see the surface, we don't have x-ray vision but at the same time I think psychologically we always want to find out what's underneath the surface we're seeing.”

“He gets his inspiration from all kinds of things, I can just imagine sort of him walking along a road and a plastic bottle, bit of broken tyre, anything like that will inspire his curiosity, he's just fascinated by materials, by the shape of things, what lies underneath the shape and he'd say that there's a huge amount of work that hasn't been

“Materials are never neutral, it's always changing.”

“You could argue well why don't you just copy nature as it is but I find it quite difficult to, I'm not really interested in just copying anything so I try to sort of work from the inside out.”

“If you think of Henry Moore as someone who'd go along the beach and look for pebbles or bones or flints, this kind of thing, you know then make sculptures which somehow respond to those objects, Tony Cragg is a sort of urban version of that kind of sculptor.”

“The way the material is distributed in the world in a sense, I mean you have a sort of particular nature to things you know so you obviously have atoms and then you have stars and grains of sand on the beach and that tends to end up in sort of stratifications and those strata, you find that in the geology you are in or the layers of the sky or the