The Goodwin Foundry, founded, owned and closely managed
by Kim Goodwin, artist and foundry man, has been operating since 1995
in The KwaZulu-Natal Midlands of South Africa.
Goodwin runs a foundry which is designed around equity
and integrity. The working environment within the foundry is
purposefully structured to support, both emotionally and professionally,
the people who work within it. The foundry employs eleven people from
the local community, all of whom are properly trained in their specific
technical tasks and closely supervised to stay true to the foundry’s
desire to produce the best quality bronzes.
The Goodwin Foundry works alongside the artist to
ensure that originals are faithfully reproduced. The particular focus on
technical expertise and the passion with which specific challenges are
embraced, is a disclosure of the foundry’s aim to ensure that technical
obstacles do not translate into artistic constraints.
This foundry is indisputably the leading foundry in
KwaZulu-Natal. Through its doors have passed nearly all of the recently
commissioned large public sculptures. It has cast, and continues to do
so, for nearly all of the prominent artists from KwaZulu-Natal.