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Cast Iron, Wood, Forge Steel, Rope](http://web.archive.org./web/20150713033617im_/http://36.media.tumblr.com/57605b882f8829d17006994a9033eae2/tumblr_mztkrqIrIR1rcjpzho1_250.jpg)
Jeremy Colbert
“family Tension”
Cast Iron, Wood, Forge Steel, Rope
Jeremy Colbert
“family Tension”
Cast Iron, Wood, Forge Steel, Rope
Ronda Wright-Phipps
Self Portrait 56"x20"x18" 2014
“Post Modern Paradox II [Collaboration with Castor Canadensis]”,
Cast Iron, Stone, Wood,
36” L x 36” W x 68” H,
2003
This book is for you, dear Iron Artists. Conceived originally for the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art. Hoping to see you at Pedvale, 2014. ~Nor
“Come for the Fire Stay for the Art”
“Meet Melt Make”
These are the strap lines on T-Shirts in July in Kidwelly, Camarthenshire: more than a hundred artists taking over an industrial museum to live and breath casting iron. Hard hats, leather aprons and jackets, work boots, gloves, face masks, blast furnaces, lots of moulds being made and poured.
This isn’t the cool clean sculpture of the London art world. This also isn’t a conference centre – it’s a temporary working environment – a sort of pop-up Sculpture Department/ Workshop/ Symposium/ Camp. In fact you’d be forgiven for thinking that this has nothing to do with contemporary art at all.
Christian Benefiel
Oak
2009
Cast Iron
Magdalena Abakanowicz
AGORA
2005-2006, cast iron
106 figures 285-295 x 95-100 x 135-145 cm
Permanent installation in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois
Wayne E. Potratz
“[Turtlewain]”
Cast Iron, Cast Bronze, Stone, Plant Materials, Shell
25’ L x 12” W x 10” , 2010
Tamsie RinglerTransmissionCarp - (Image courtesy of Justine Johnson)Palus Somnii (Marsh of Sleep) (6-8) was cast during the 6th International Conference of Contemporary Cast Iron Art in Kidwelly, Wales in July 2010.Using a stripped Vauxhall Corsa as a flask, molten iron was poured directly into the vehicle’s interior. The act of the pour itself, or “Transmission,” was intended to redescribe the car in relation to the material of its own creation and our own experience. The public iron pour presented an elemental material and an ordinary vehicle as explosive spectacle, similar to the explosive introduction of petroleum into our culture and environment. Once unmolded, the car and its interior forms of a Mississippi River carp and giant horsetails became a narrative about cars and their relationship to the environment; specifically their reliance on fossil fuels derived from primordial sources and our reliance on increasingly scarce and environmentally destructive fuel resources.
You will find that this website consists of the history of casting across the world, the United States, and England, patterns, molds, types of furnaces and their operations, the ingredients, artists working with cast iron, and a references guide to organizations that deal directly with cast iron. In addition there is a glossary and list of resources for further research on all the areas discussed.