Utilising the GMT Custom Foundry section of Gillies Metaltech, C.A.S. enables small and large scale productions to be developed in concept, designed in CAD, fabricated and cast in section, assembled and prepared in accordance with the artist’s brief and assistance. C.A.S. provides Studio space and the working Crucible Gallery to display and promote pieces as appropriate.
Crucible Art Studios
From Concept to Cast – Bringing Art to Life
The Crucible Art Studios is the creative workshop operating within the Gillies Metaltech foundry operation.
Services
Crucible Art Studios is the commercial arm of Gillies Metaltech ltd. It provides resources and capability to assist artists with their creative works, as well as facilitating the Crucible Artist Residency programme through Hynds Foundation.
- Collaboration with artist and client
- Art piece design
- Safe production programme
- Patten and template fabrication
- Sectional production
- Assembly ready for paint finish
Crucible Gallery
The Crucible Gallery is a two storey historic stone building now converted into a public space for art exhibitions.
The building was first constructed in 1880. As the Ōamaru Mail, the town’s first newspaper press. It was later converted into a grain store, and after that was a butchery, before Gillies purchased it to be the laboratory and patten store for the whole foundry operation.
Art curating is performed in-house with the Hynds Foundation art programme. Art pieces may be available for sale via the Hynds Foundation Artist Residency.
Hynds Foundation
Crucible Artist Residency
Artists are invited to work in the spacious light-filled Crucible Art ‘Pattern Shop’ Studios. Over the decades, Pattern Makers have used traditional wood working skills to meticulously craft patterns, from which moulds would be made, ready to receive molten metal.
In the heart of the Ōamaru Historic Precinct where traces of the area’s industrious past are everywhere, we collaborate with the Hynds Foundation to provide a unique backdrop for creative endeavours.
Our vision is to enable opportunity through creativity. Our objectives are for an Artist Residency programme that allows for –
- Artists to develop their creative practices, independently or in collaborations between artists, and the skilled craftsmen we have here at Gillies.
- All expressions and mediums of creativity.
- Community connection with artists through the experience
