General news and information regarding Hammer & Hand in Hobart or Byron Bay.

Well the E’invites are out and we are counting down to the launch this FRIDAY the 21st ,  5pm ..  looking forward to seeing everyone’s pieces … I have caught some glimpses and it is a bit exciting  !

Twenty Kilos of Angels, Feral critters and Flatwear heading for Hobart’s Hammer and Hand !

Hammer & Hand Byron Bay are preparing for our Twice Annual Exhibition .. This time around the theme “a LOVING SPOONFUL”

Join us at the launch on Friday evening, 21st June, 5pm at the Studio/Gallery at 4 Ti-Tree Place in the Byron Arts and Industry Estate for a big helping  !!!

At last I have got around to putting my rectangles and squares on the Hammer website. Thoroughly enjoy working with ‘sort of’ straight sides and want to explore this shape a bit more. Still haven’t got on top of the wordpress editing though! Can’t seem to get my images to go where I want them to be. But looks a bit like a jumble of rectangles.

Hello everybody,
Working hard to make double ended big and small spoon with stand that the spoon balances on.
The spoons and stand will be slightly different shapes and has a flow to it, very lovingly.
These pieces are still in progress and are not the finish product.

I think I have found a new love for forging!
With every hammer pound, the metal being shaped and seeing the metal colour changes, almost like landscaping.

Spoonful regards
Wi Hihanni

What a fun night opening night was – and such a buzz for the four of us  from Hammer and Hand chosen to showcase the talent of jewellers in the Northern Rivers area.  The gallery will run for 5 weeks and is open Wednesday – Sunday 9am-6pm.  All four of us (Helen, Lucille, Laura and Jen) will work at the gallery for a week each – so we hope to see you there!

I can hardly look around and not see something – a window, an insect, the curling pages of a book – without thinking….’how fabulous, how could I incorporate that into a piece of jewellery?…’  As you can see by the pieces below, sometimes I just pick that thing up and turn it straight into something to wear, other times it’s more the feeling of it that comes through in the design.

Hope to see you at the pop up shop in Byron c/o Arts Northern Rivers (in the old library building – looking schmick with a new coat of paint and many, many hours of scraping the old one-way film off the windows).