Welcome
Gallery Pangolin is an internationally renowned sculpture gallery known for its commitment to quality and excellence in Modern and Contemporary art.
Nestled in the village of Chalford on the slopes of the Cotswold escarpment, it remains one of Gloucestershire’s best-kept secrets. Located on a former Victorian industrial site beside the River Frome, the gallery opened its doors in 1991.
Founded to showcase the finest casts from Pangolin Editions Fine Art Foundry, the gallery also revived a 19th-century tradition of pairing art foundries with galleries.
Gallery Pangolin specialises in sculpture, presenting themed, group, solo, and retrospective exhibitions carefully curated each year. We also deliver ambitious projects in unusual venues — most recently ‘Back to the Cave – The Full Spectrum’ at Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean, where 70 sculptures were installed underground. In addition, we have curated exhibitions at Gloucester and Chester Cathedrals and frequently collaborate with galleries and museums both in the UK and abroad.
We work closely with artists, estates, and their families to produce commissioned monographs and Catalogue Raisonnés, as well as catalogues and leaflets for our own exhibitions. All our publications are designed in-house and produced with trusted printers and photographers to ensure exceptional quality.
Over the past thirty years, we have expanded our activities beyond the foundry. Today, we coordinate public commissions, offer valuations, manage artists’ estates, act as agents, and advise private and public collectors. We also oversee the crating, shipping, and installation of artworks worldwide — always providing a personalised, attentive service and support.
In 2004 Pangolin Editions with Parabola land set up our own registered charity the RUWENZORI FOUNDATION with the aim of enabling cultural and educational exchanges between artists in Africa and the UK. It funds residencies and workshops and provides the infrastructure, facilities, materials and training needed to meet its objectives.
In its early days, the Foundation received crucial support from the British Council, Tate, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal College of Art. Many individual artists and supporters have also generously donated and have been critical in allowing the Foundation to pursue its aims.
Since 2008 it has built an Art Centre, with bronze foundry, gallery and studios, on 60 acres of land in Kyemihoko village, ten kilometres north of Kasese in Western Uganda. The Foundation’s land encompasses a short stretch of the River Sebwe and climbs 300 feet into the foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains. In addition to culture the foundation promotes environmental restoration and conservation, and has planted thousands of trees on the land, attracting numerous insects birds and mammals to the site.
Our support of the local community extends to providing a clinic for treatment of common diseases like malaria, typhoid, brucellosis, among others. Current development is the extension of the clinic to provide in-patient care.
By purchasing books, catalogues, prints, drawings or sculpture from Gallery Pangolin, or donating to our ‘beetle pot’ you are helping us to continue to fund this project.
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