Cragg is a contemporary of some of the other artists I've mentioned in previous posts, notably Richard Deacon (I'm going to see his Tate retrospective this Friday), and Bill Woodrow.
According to Cragg's Wikipedia entry, he was also buddies with Richard Long, a "sculptor" that is remembered (by some) for making a long line in a field by walking to and fro (a lot) and Roger Ackling, who spends much of his time using the sun and a magnifying glass to make burn marks on pieces of wood (get the picture?). Long and Ackling have worked together on some projects in the past.
Cragg is another sculptor that started off making stuff from found scrap (like Bill Woodrow and Richard Wentworth). Since then he's moved on and now seems to work mainly in bronze. See his Tate entry. He's lived in Wuppertal, Germany, for 30 to 40 years and has created a sculpture park there.
I would like to see his sculptures in real life before passing judgement on him (not that my judgement counts for anything!). I like the look of some of his bronze stuff on his website.
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