The main force behind the project is Rungwe Kingdon, who runs the largest bronze foundry of its kind in Europe, together with his wife, Claude Koenig.

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The figures were cast in bronze at a Welsh foundry.

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Few people there want to buy large statues, he says, and there is not even a foundry for his bronze works.

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