Tony Cragg

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Ferryman's large mutant-like organic form achieves a specific weightlessness as a result of the perforated bronze from which it is fabricated. Its monumental size is contradicted and yet amplified by the hole-punched bronze which lends an extraordinary three dimensionality to the work.

The piece is almost foetal in character; it possess a strange kind of incompleteness as a result of its stunted appendages, which grow from the 'body' of the piece, hinting towards the potential for continued development. The ambiguous title of the work serves to further abstract Ferryman making it one of Cragg's most inscrutable works to date.