David McCracken

b. 1963, Aotearoa New Zealand

Sculptor David McCracken works primarily in fabricated steel, elevating humble objects of the everyday into memorable ones. This has led to innovative techniques in his work, such as ‘drop-forging’, where large steel weights are dropped onto sheet aluminium from a crane and ‘hydroforming’, a way of stretching steel with hydrostatic pressures.

Gow Langsford Gallery has represented David McCracken since 2009.

Left Artist’s studio, 2021. Courtesy of the artist I’m gonna be arrogant when I grow up, 2020 Cor-ten steel 1600 x 2100 x 1900mm