General
General news and information regarding Hammer & Hand in Hobart or Bangalow.
October 8, 2011
Posted by Jen Banks
A few New Earrings…
….have been having a great time creating pieces for our ‘3’ exhibition which is coming up in but a few short weeks, but have managed to take some time to explore other ideas that don’t fit the ‘three’ tag, no matter how far i stretch my imagination
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- organic/circle/seed-pod type earrings
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- a bit glam
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- every girl needs a pair of simple circle earrings
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- sterling spring growth
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- more lovely old up-cycled tin earrings
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- semi-precoious colour for your ears
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- a lot glam and swishy
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- i wonder if the old ladies at all the op-shops around wonder why suddenly all the tins have sold out?
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- sterling and paua finch earrings
October 5, 2011
Posted by Julian
3 is a big milestone
3 is a very important number – more important than 4 to most of us. When people talk of numbers I’m always reminded of Sesame Street.
Our lives are filled with paradigms of a 3 fold nature…
- mind, body & spirit
- past, present and future
- art, science & religion
- 3 dimensions of space
- there are 3 primary colours
- in grammar 3 persons express all the relationships of people
- animal, vegetable & mineral
- thought, word & deed
- and so on and so on and so on
Come along to the Hammer & Hand exhibition in Byron Bay from Oct 28th to see some of the ways that 3 inspires us.
October 1, 2011
Posted by Bruce Pringle
Helen made new signs for us !
September 23, 2011
Posted by Ella Knight
oh winter, we miss you already…(yeah right!)
buffalo bells…pomelicious!
September 18, 2011
Posted by Bruce Pringle
Bruce Hay of Hobart Hammer and Hand
Today I’m running wood construction workshops at Balfour House Arts Centre CYGNET as part of the OPEN YOUR EYES Festival run by Tas regional arts…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jlD8Khwh3U
September 12, 2011
Posted by Bruce Pringle
Something amazing !! Anticlastic Earrings by Steven Chick
These are the ‘anticlastic ‘ forged earrings of Steven’s that I was talkingabout in Byron Hammer today… they were forged from Titanium .
The drawings on the left are the pattern .. so each earring is forged from one piece !!!
Whoohoo !
Steven has rejoined Hobart Hammer and Hand !
August 30, 2011
Posted by Bruce Pringle
Out of the dim and distant past….
While in Hobart,Tasmania, Rosie and I visited Despard Gallery on Castray Esplanade…. Steven Joyce, the owner and Director, invited us to have a look at the collection upstairs….while we were snoofin’ about up there enjoying his fantastic collection of art … old and new..I came across this work by Ceramic artist Sally McGillvery, which she exhibited in Bett Gallery when it was still upstairs in Salamanca place .. 18 or so years ago … ? .. dunno..but I did the table for her…Steven had thought the iron work was by somebody else …Had bought it at Gowan’s auction house for a couple of hundred or so and sold it for a couple of thou….the week before …! 
July 23, 2011
Posted by Jen Banks
New Pendants
Last month I discovered some new rings around Saturn, this month it’s new reins around the sky…..
A few pendants I’ve created since my post about my decolletage 🙂
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- sterling and up-cycled dark blue aluminium pendant
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- cast star anise pendant
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- sterling rubberwood leaf pendant
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- not a great photo sorry, but gorgeous up-cycled reflector pendants and earrings
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- large leaf imprint concave circle pendant
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- textured concave circle charm necklace
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- large hammered sterling pendant
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- sterling and up-cycled light blue aluminium pendant
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- sterling whiteywood leaf pendant
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- sterling and paua charm necklace
July 10, 2011
Posted by Bruce Pringle
Bruce Pringle at Hammer and Hand Byron has Fire Drums for Sale or Hire
June 23, 2011
Posted by Bruce Pringle
A new Anvil joins Hammer and Hand !
I found this small anvil at the ‘Brunswick old and gold’ sale … It is an ‘Old English’ pattern, forged in Birmingham around 1830 to 1860 I think .. The markings are indestinct .. The maker might be an N POWELL ? Bit hard to read .. below that I can make out ‘WARRENTED’ and below that , BIRMINGHAM . I canot find a record of an N POWELL making anvils around that time but there ARE still Powells in Birmingham England !?! Also pictured here is the new 4lb ball pein hammer I made from a sledge hammer to replace the one worn out by polishing . (the middle one ,… made lots of ladels !)
