Hot Casting Demonstration
with Ore and Ingot
Saturday 24 May 2025, 2.30pm - 4.30pm
FREE, drop-in
Venue: MAKE Southwest, Courtyard
Suitable for: Adults & supervised Children aged 13 years +
Drop-in to MAKE Southwest to experience a travelling foundry in action!
David Snoo-Wilson of Ore and Ingot will be demonstrating some hot casting in our courtyard space throughout the afternoon and will be available to talk to visitors about his work as a professional bell-caster.
There will even be a chance to have a go at cuttlefish casting in exchange for a donation of £5.00 for material costs!
About Ore and 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 travelled around eastern Europe to explore ways in which the performance could be incorporated with the process of metal casting.
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.