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Pangolin London
Located in a purpose-built gallery near Kings Cross, Pangolin London opened in October 2008 and continues to deliver a rotating exhibition programme of the highest quality.
In addition to exhibitions in the gallery, Pangolin London also curates a changing exhibition of large scale sculpture throughout the public spaces and canal-side at Kings Place. -
Ruwenzori Sculpture Foundation
The Ruwenzori Sculpture Foundation is a registered charity set up in 2004 by the directors of Pangolin Editions and Parabola Land Ltd. with the aim of enabling cultural and educational exchanges between artists in Africa and the UK. It funds workshops, scholarships and specific projects and provides facilities, materials, training and infrastructure to achieve these objectives.
Crucial support for the Foundation's aims has come from The British Council, David Drew, MP for Stroud, the Tate, the Royal Academy of Arts and The Royal College of Art as well as many artists.
Unlike Western Africa, there is no tradition of casting in metal in East Africa. The Foundation's Centre near Kasese will provide a foundry facility for contemporary East African artists managed by local craftsmen trained in UK. The response from the local art and craft community has been one of great enthusiasm. There is both a need and a desire for a casting foundry and also a great belief in the opportunities that arise through artistic exchange.
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Rwenzori Founders
Ten kilometres north of Kasese and in the foothills of Uganda’s impressive Rwenzori Mountains lies Rwenzori Founders, a bronze-casting facility and award-winning sculpture gallery.
Supported by UK charity the Ruwenzori Sculpture Foundation, this rural centre for the arts was launched when three Ugandan craftsmen who trained at Pangolin Editions foundry in England returned home in 2008. It has since grown rapidly and the local team now boasts fourteen members.
Unprecedented in Uganda, the foundry offers sculptors the opportunity to have their work cast into bronze in well-equipped studios and with skilled craftsmen on hand at every stage of the process.
The architect-designed Rwenzori Sculpture Gallery is rapidly becoming a popular tourist destination and exhibits a selection of bronzes produced by the foundry as well as other works created during workshops and residencies hosted on site. -
Pangolin Editions
Established in 1984, Pangolin Editions is one of Europe's leading sculpture foundries casting for an international clientele and to any scale.
It is one of the few foundries still practising the traditional skills of lost wax block investment casting. In addition to the lost wax facilities a 3,000 square metre unit houses the sand moulding process where the largest of monuments can be enlarged, moulded or fabricated.
The foundry prides itself on fine craftsmanship. Alongside cutting-edge technologies, each bronze is hand crafted using time-honoured skills to produce a distinctive, faithful and accurate finish. -
Extinct Species
Artists, craftsmen, biologists, palaeontologists and conservationists were all in involved in this project over three years. The aim was to reconstruct a definitive image of the Dodo and twelve other extinct species from the Mascarene Islands, to a perfection never before attempted.
The project was originally conceived by Claude Koenig and Rungwe Kingdon of Pangolin Editions together with Dr Carl Jones of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and director of the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation's fauna conservation programme for many years. They enlisted the support and expertise of other experts and of the sculptor Nick Bibby, whose incredible skill in rendering flesh, feather, scale and claw is unrivalled.
The project hopes to draw attention to the tragedy of extinction and also to inspire a deeper understanding of the vital need for conservation. A bronze cast of each extinct species has been permanently sited on the Ile aux Aigrettes, which lies off the southeastern shore of Mauritius and has become the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation's conservation showpiece.
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Pangolin Digital
We provide a comprehensive range of digital services to Artists, Designers, Architects, Galleries, Museums and leading names worldwide.
‘Our aim is to make our clients’ ideas and dreams become a reality.’
Pangolin Digital has made substantial investments in ground-breaking 3D printing and computing technologies in order to satisfy the increasingly ambitious aims of our clients. Having adopted digital processes at an early stage we now find ourselves at the forefront of a range of leading technologies.
We are a team of technical experts and creative practitioners, enabling us to provide exacting solutions, always respectful of artistic sensibilities and intellectual property.
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Jon Buck
Jon's own website covering his work from the early 1980's to the present. Contains many more images and his own comments on each period.
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Terence Coventry
Terence's own website with further images and information on his work, including a short film made by The Guardian.
