Hammer & Hand is a metal & jewellery collective based in Hobart, Tasmania and Bangalow, New South Wales.

 

“REFUGE IN TEA” Sand cast silver scarf pin

I am beholden to Metal, it is my music and my sustenance.
I describe the world with it
and in return it has offered me an identity..
I am a Metal-smith for this short and incandescent life
and then, I will leave it and this wrought self,

happily transforming to subtler muse.

So this, the legacy that brings Me to Art.
Where I gently attempt to describe myself to me,
tongue in cheek, rather than clenched of jaw ?
Where I make sense of the senseless and selfless the self ?
Where meaning is wrought from this elemental clay
to make feet for The flood.

A Buddhist view, the plight of the Thylacine, the art of the ancients, the human condition, conceptual identity, Facebook, Google, connectivity, the transience of everything and Tea ! These are what inform my work.

Bruce Pringle