Abigail Burt
Abigail Burt graduated from RCA Sculpture 2020. Her practice focuses on public participatory projects centred around our relationship with our living environment.
Abigail runs a portable foundry, which she mainly uses for artist-led projects and workshops. She is a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Research Fellow, awarded for her study of lost-wax casting in Nepal and India, and has undertaken commissions for The Goldsmiths’ Company, The British Museum, The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, and The United Guilds Service of St.Paul’s Cathedral, among others.
Website: www.abigailburt.co.uk
David Snoo Wilson
David Snoo Wilson runs Ore and Ingot Foundry in Bristol. He specialises in bell casting and is one of only a handful of bell-casters still active in this country. He has bells in the Royal household of the Prince Of Wales, among other places. In 2014 Wilson received the Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to research bell foundries in central Europe and he traveled around eastern Europe to explore ways in which the performance could be incorporated with the process of metal casting. Over the years he has received funding for his research and development into bells from Arts Council England, and the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust.
As an educator and technician Wilson has worked at the Royal College of Art, at the foundry. Internationally he has run courses and workshops across European universities sharing his knowledge of metal casting.
Website: www.oreandingot.com
Katrin Hanusch
Katrin Hanusch is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture and installation with a deep and ongoing conversation with materials and processes. Her work engages with the impermanence and interconnectedness of our world and often takes on a perspective that addresses longterm effects of our actions in intimate encounters or immersive environments. In 2020 Hanisch was awarded the Shelagh Cluett Residency at the Alice Boner Institute in Varanasi, India. Hanusch is currently in the process of setting up Open Foundry, an open access foundry based in south London.
Website: http://www.katrin-hanusch.de/
LOCKBUND SCULPTURE FOUNDRY
Lockbund Sculpture Foundry was established by artist Simon Allison in 1993 and is dedicated to providing an excellent and personal service to artists all across the country.
Their clients include members of the Royal Academy, The British Portrait society and the RSBS through to students and first time makers.
Lockbund are a medium sized studio foundry and can create, fabricate and cast anything from a thimble through to half tonne single castings using the lost wax method. They cast predominantly in bronze but also cast in stainless steel, aluminium, silver, lead, pewter, brass, jesmonite, resin & concrete (to name a few).