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

I have been very busy and excited to be working on this new collection of sculpture in a fairly new medium for me.. CONCRETE! or Fero-cement.

It has been a steep learning curve and a lot of fun!

 

The New Collection … Sculptures

I’ve got a bird that whistles, I’ve got a bird that sings … Steel, Sand cast Bronze, concrete, metal foil, Sculpture

I’ve got a bird that whistles, I’ve got a bird that sings … (Detail) … Steel, Sand cast Bronze, concrete, metal foil, Sculpture

A little bird told me – welded steel, concrete, metal foil on red ochre, sand cast bronze (bird)

A little bird told me -(detail) welded steel, concrete, metal foil on red ochre, sand cast bronze (bird)

The Emissary …Sculpture, Concrete, Steel, Sand cast Bronze

The Emissary … (Detail) … Sculpture, Concrete, Steel, Sand cast Bronze

Whistling down the wind … I’ve got a bird that whistles, I’ve got a bird that sings … Steel, concrete, Sand cast Bronze, Sculpture

Abide in me … Steel, concrete, Sand cast Bronze, Sculpture

The Far Shore … Sculpture, Concrete, Steel, Sand cast Bronze, Gold Leaf.

The Dharma Is Onward Leading … Sculpture, Concrete, Steel, Gold Leaf

All In The Same Boat … Sculpture, Concrete, Steel, Sand cast Bronze

All In The Same Boat … Sculpture, Concrete, Steel, Sand cast Bronze

Jeopardy .. (The Red Tree) … Sculpture, Concrete, Steel, Sand cast Bronze, Red Ochre

Jeopardy .. (The Red Tree) … Sculpture, Concrete, Steel, Sand cast Bronze, Red Ochre

These two pieces, “Towards Completion 1 and 2” Are a little about evolving and a bit about how we are Star Stuff.

One is “blood’ or Iron, (hemoglobin) and the other Calcium… or “Bone”… two of the early elements, flung out of the Big Bang.

They are using the metaphor of flight to suggest attaining our full potential… then perhaps we will fly off into a Super Nova and transform to Gold.

Good times with Rich Martin at Hammer and Hand Workshop

Rich Martin has been visiting us in Byron Bay… picking up Sand-Casting skills. 

Also pictured are Matt Hooper, Artist and Hammer Byron Bay members , Julian DeSaxe, Priscilla Daffen, Thomas Franke (and Arlen!). Jen Banks and Bruce Pringle…. Friday evening watching Rich casting a bronze Skate (sting-ray).

Rich Martin (Hammer and Hand Hobart) with Bruce Pringle and Julian DeSaxe (Hammer and Hand byron bay workshop)

Bruce Pringle and Rich Martin in Briuce’s workshop.. Sandcasting

Rich Martin, Sculptor.

Hammer and Hand Metal and Jewellery collective, Byron Bay

Hammer and Hand Metal and Jewellery collective, Byron Bay Is looking for a new member to join our collective!

Check out the “about” page here on this website’s menu bar and give Bruce a call on 0409960614 for a chat and more information.

Skill level is not a big deal.. We all started somewhere!

A different society is evolving.. the ways we connect have changed We are iSOCIAL and eVAILABLE

 

“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

Where I live, up here on Magpie Hill, I listen in awe to their songster skill.

Fabricated,forged and sand cast silver brooch, 5cm legnth

All these pins are now listed for sale on my   Bruce Pringle Metal   Etsy account.. https://www.etsy.com/   …You can be rolling in credit with your loved one!Get back in the good books! Have one in reserve for that Anniversary/Birthday/Christmas etc gift.. you know it’s a good idea..#handmade #silver #scarf #pin #safetypin#hammer_and_hand #byronbay #sandcast