Thomas Michael Crannage is a multidisciplinary artist based in Glasgow and
specialists in sculpture and costume. His practice is rooted in the raw poetry of
materials, where found objects and consumerist remnants are transformed into
quietly powerful meditations on decay, resilience and the passage of time. Working
primarily with steel, plaster and salvaged textiles, he explores the tension between
human intervention and the inherent agency of matter itself.
His process is both intuitive and deliberate – allowing material to speak, fractures to
form and surfaces to weather according to their own logic. Whether suspending
fragile assemblages or anchoring brutalist forms in precarious balance, his work
exposes the beauty in impermanence, often blurring the line between construction
and collapse.
Inspired his experience growing up in post-industrial landscapes, Thomas’s
sculptures act as relics of urban entropy, each piece bearing the scars of its making.
His installations invite viewers to consider the silent histories embedded in everyday
materials, from a weathered tarp to a rusted bolt. Humor and humility underpin his
approach, as seen in his untitled works and sly critiques of art-world formalism.
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