Untitled, 1985, Mixed media. 350 x 120 x 160 cm

“I use everything but, preferably, after it has been used by man… what interests me is the special critical appraisal that we apply to manmade objects and man’s activities.

It’s a real problem; the world is full of manmade objects. It’s about time we stopped producing and started clarifying and reevaluating the objects we have put into the world. The situation now has a political dimension. It no longer has anything to do with political structures but is related to the very nature of this critical search”.

• Tony Cragg interviewed by Demosthenes Davvetas, 1985