Barry Flanagan and the Foundry

In this film, we hear Jo Melvin, Director of the Barry Flanagan Estate and Jerry Hughes, Manager of AB Fine Art Foundry, discuss the work of Barry Flanagan, particularly the performative elements of Flanagan’s sculptures and the importance of bronze to his practice.
Flanagan began to focus his practice more resolutely on bronze from 1979. Proclaiming the atmosphere of the bronze casting foundry to be ‘as exciting as standing in the wings of a theatre, with the first night buzz’. Now known as AB Fine Art Foundry, it is the same location where today the Estate of Barry Flanagan is headquartered.