Pangolin Editions

The foundry was established in 1985,^[1] by the married couple Rungwe Kingdon and Claude Koenig, who met at art school.^[2]

In 2015 a new furnace was installed, to facilitate the casting of stainless steel.^[3]

London newspaper The Standard described Pangolin Editions in 2012 as "Europe's largest sculpture foundry".^[4]

Early in his career, the sculptor Nick Elphick worked at the foundry.^[5]

Damien Hirst, whose studio is adjacent to the foundry, has had all his cast works made there.^[4] In 2012 he unveiled his sculpture Grotesque Unicorn - The Dream is Dead, cast in sterling silver in an edition of four, at the Pangolin Gallery in London.^[4] Other long-term collaborators include Lynn Chadwick, Maggi Hambling, Martin Jennings and Sarah Lucas.^[6][7] The foundry has cast pieces for artists including Bruce Beasley,^[8] Halima Cassell,^[9] Antony Gormley,^[10] Philip Jackson,^[11] and Grayson Perry.^[12]

Pangolin worked with Eric Fischl to digitise his paintings and cast them in bronze, which he then painted; these were then exhibited at Victoria Miro, Venice.^[13] They worked with Jonathan Yeo to create a 3D printed sculpture.^[14]

The foundry also undertakes work for sculptors who prefer not to have the fact that they do not cast their own pieces known.^[7]

Pangolin's directors created the Ruwenzori Foundation (originally the Ruwenzori Sculpture Foundation), a registered charity,^[15] in 2004 to allow educational and cultural exchanges between artists in Africa and the United Kingdom.^[16] It has built an arts centre with a foundry in Uganda.^[16]