Workshops & Courses
Bronze Lost Wax Casting Workshop with David Snoo Wilson
Join David Snoo-Wilson of Ore & Ingot for a three-day workshop, where you will learn an introduction to lost wax bronze casting.
The workshop is taught in small groups to allow as much contact time as possible. You'll learn an overview of the foundry process while creating your very own sculpture.
Come with or without skills, we will start at the beginning.
Using the ‘direct wax casting’ technique which means using wax to make a model; forming and sculpting it like clay or plasticine. You will then cast these objects in bronze.
This workshop is open to all abilities and no previous experience of sculpture or bronze casting is necessary.
Included in the ticket price is 1kg of bronze, which is enough to make a casted piece of roughly hand-sized or smaller. Additional Bronze can be purchased during the course at roughly £60 per kg.
All other materials are included alongside tools necessary for the workshop.
Participants must be aged 18 years or older.
About Ore & Ingot:
Ore and ingot is run by David Snoo Wilson. Wilson 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.
Ore and Ingot was set up in 2012 by David Snoo Wilson and Jo Lathwood. Lathwood has since left but can still be seen in the workshop from time to time getting her hands dirty.
Come with or without skills, we will start at the beginning.
Using the ‘direct wax casting’ technique which means using wax to make a model; forming and sculpting it like clay or plasticine. You will then cast these objects in bronze.
This workshop is open to all abilities and no previous experience of sculpture or bronze casting is necessary.
Included in the ticket price is 1kg of bronze, which is enough to make a casted piece of roughly hand-sized or smaller. Additional Bronze can be purchased during the course at roughly £60 per kg.
All other materials are included alongside tools necessary for the workshop.
Participants must be aged 18 years or older.
About Ore & Ingot:
Ore and ingot is run by David Snoo Wilson. Wilson 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.
Ore and Ingot was set up in 2012 by David Snoo Wilson and Jo Lathwood. Lathwood has since left but can still be seen in the workshop from time to time getting her hands dirty.
