These two little fellows were among ninety eight finalists in the BAM Art Prize (Byron Arts Magazine) showing at ThomGallery, Byron Bay.  Go Have a look!

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!  

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 […]

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).

  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

  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, […]

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