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

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 !

Two ‘Tiger’ medalions and a ‘Tattoo Heart’ getting it’s pin

I need to get an image of work to divert to our Facebook page and not just the header of this website blog ..

So here goes !?

A customer brought in a beautiful opal triplet that her father had given her and asked if I could set in a pendant. I offered up a few designs and she liked on this one..

Opal pendant by Julian de Saxe

Two little ‘Pods’ ..Just home from the foundry .. wee wee wee wee ..

A couple of older pieces recast in ‘maleable steel.. Now for a bit of clean-up..

BirdmanFree 1

I have made a couple of ‘Dreamer’ guys .. ‘BirdmanFree 1 and 2?   …  They have opened their cages and freed themselves..Was it Mick Jagger who asked? “Once you have your freedom , what do you do with it ?” .. Maybe put down the cage… ?

There are a couple of ‘Young Girls’ here aswell … something to do with innocence and lack of affectation .

BirdmanFree 2

Little Girl with Butterfly

Moondog’s Tin Guitar “Eifel”

Hammer and Hand Byron has a new “Guest Spot” (The Plinth) to enable us to feature works that we feel are special to us .. Here are the first .. Moondog’s ‘Tyn Guitar’ called “Eifel”, A drawing that Artist Christine Willcocks made for the “loving Spoonfull” exhibition and Harrison Neki’s Sculpture ” Never Give Up !” (cast in resin). Come in and have a look !

‘Eifel’

“Eifel”

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Christine Willcocks “Loving Spoonful”

Harrison Neki  Sculpture

The Guest spot

Mergatroid-Boid was spotted yesterday behaving in an ‘explicitly’ Girlish way with Nervous-Nelson … I was assured by Max that Mergatroid is definitely a girl !! So .. if there remained any ember of a doubt as to her sexuality .. It has been quenched.

Also ! Carl Quirk, fish-skin tanner from Hobart paid us a visit at the workshop !

Meanwhile .. while I await the arrival of my new Acetylene Regulator I have begun some ‘self liberating bird men” and completed a couple more  ‘girls in shoes with butterflies’…

And !!… drum roll ..’rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat… Today is the first day of the ‘Illuminated Flashing OPEN sign’ !!

So come on in .. ..what else is there to do in Byron Bay anyway ? Jen Banks is at the bench today .. Have a look at her new pieces !