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

This Exhibition is proving to be very exciting for the members of Hammer and Hand Byron Bay !

A box each .. full of an odd mix of materials … 12 in all, put there by each member ..

Rachel gave us all a piece of computer motherboard and a Tiger-eye cabochon,

from Rosie we each received some Chiyogami yuzen washi paper,

From Dave , American White Oak,

from Kate , a plastic doll !,

Helen some Buttons from her Grandmothers collection,

Laura a sepia photographic image on acetate..

Wi-Hihanni a couple of pieces of bone,

Julian a slice of Ebony,

Jen put in Gold Leaf,

Lucille (who’s Idea this whole thing is!), an Anodised aluminium  pot lid,

Eve an offering of beads from her collection

and I (Bruce) put into the boxes a small rectangle of Mild-Steel !

So… !  That was the brief and challenge .. a kind of collaboration, using all these materials..

Animal, Mineral, Vegetable, Elemental and Man-made, to produce, inform, transmute and appropriate.

In the making !.. pieces for Exhibition !

So come along this coming Friday evening and experience the diversity and eclecticism that is 

HAMMER AND HAND !