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Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool. He first worked as a lab technician for the British Rubber Producers Research Association after high school. He studied art at Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology , Cheltenham, from to , and painted at the Wimbledon School of Art , London, from to He moved to Wuppertal in because his first wife was from there.

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He was fascinated by the importance of sculpture in Germany, and struck by German seriousness. In , Daniel, the first of his 4 children, was born. He is currently married to the artist Tatjana Verhasselt. Tony Cragg's early work involved site-specific installations of found objects and discarded materials. From the mids through to the early s he presented assemblages in primary structures as in his first mature piece, the Stack [ 4 ] as well as in colourful, representational reliefs on the floors and walls of gallery spaces as in Red Indian of — In he created "Britain Seen from the North" considered a signature early work, made of multi-coloured scraps of various materials assembled in relief on the wall.