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In his work, artist Tony Cragg explores the places that occupy the emptiness between our everyday objects

How does your work investigate the material world?
I’m interested in science – this wonderful observation system – and I’m always amazed when people aren’t. How do people use a light switch and not know how it works? But I’m no specialist. I get my knowledge, my experience, from working with materials.

Sculpture has become a basic study of the material world. But whereas scientists try to find out what the fundamentals of this physical world are, art tries to give that physical world meaning.…

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