Telephone: 01372 386453 E-mail: info@fireandiron.co.uk
- Open Wednesday to Saturday 11am - 5pm - Free entry and parking -
Fire and Iron Gallery was founded in 1982 as part of Rowhurst Forge / Richard Quinnell Ltd (established 1932), in response to a global resurgence of interest in forged iron as a creative medium. Its aim was to showcase the work of British blacksmiths and to provide a platform for the promotion of a national craft showing small sparks of life after decades of decline. Throughout the nineties and noughties, owner Lucy Quinnell expanded the scale and the scope of the gallery to incorporate other disciplines within the field of art metalworking…
…Today, Fire and Iron represents 200 British and international makers working in technically diverse ways with iron, steel, stainless steel, aluminium, zinc, copper, bronze, brass, tin, pewter, silver, gold, titanium and scrap metal.
Special exhibitions and demonstrations complement extensive permanent displays. From jewellery to sculpture, commissions are undertaken by Fire and Iron’s exhibiting makers, and also on site by Lucy, her husband Adam Boydell and son Tom Quinnell, who together form an award-winning team specialising in public art projects, private commissions and studio pieces.
Fire and Iron is set in the picturesque outbuildings and gardens of a Plantagenet and Carolean house with parts built in 1346 and 1632 on an ancient occupied site, and is very proud to be a green company.
“A Mecca for metal maniacs”