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

Our exhibition nights just get bigger and better every time!  Always an awesome atmosphere thanks to the fabulous people that attend, the braziers, the live music, the stunning work created by our fantastic team, the food and wine and this time an impromptu sword swallowing show!

I often use rivets in my work (in the landscape pendants for example), so I found I went straight into the ideas phase for the exhibitin with the word ‘riveted’ as a technique rather than a state of mind, but I tried to ensure I created a different style of piece than I had done before, which is where the layered bird/bush and branch/frond pieces came in.

Here’s a few pics of the work I created for the event (as always if you click on the picture, once and then again, you’ll get a bigger view):