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

July 3, 2014
Posted by Bruce Pringle

Kinetic Action ! Cog on and Gear Up !

Mo for a COGnicenti

“Bee here now” Kinetic sculpture.. A statement on interdependence and the crucial and threatened roll of the Bee and ourselves

‘bee here now’ Kinetic sculpture detail

“Wind up toy”
“I am my son, my mother, my father,I am born of myself
my own flesh sucked..And someone squeezed my heart
to make me go through my number. I was a wind-up toy
someone had dropped wound up into a world already
running down The world had been going on a long time already but it made no difference It was new it was like new I saw it shining and it shone in the sun and it spun in the sun and the skein it spun was pure light . My life was made of it , made of the skeins of light…”
From Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem ‘True Confessional’

Kinetic thing.. Work in progress

Some mechanism with the wire ‘worm-gear’ on the right

‘Kinetic thing’ frame templates and inner workings

Cogs !

‘Arthur Ganson’ type gear axel alignment jig

Jig for bending 1.6mm ribbon steel gear cogs

Jig for bending 1.6mm ribbon steel for gear cogs

Relates to Bangalow Bruce Pringle Hobart

June 17, 2014
Posted by Bruce Pringle

“EXHIBIT A”

Join the Byron Hammer and Hand members at 4 Ti-Tree place on Friday 20th June from 5.30pm till 8pm

for the much anticipated winter exhibition night. This winters theme is “Exhibit A”

– each of the 12 members of our collective will be showcasing something from their new collections.

Come and enjoy mulled wine, hot soup and live music with Moondogs Gypsy Blues Band !

Relates to General

May 18, 2014
Posted by Bruce Pringle

Ummmmm….?

Ummm … what to do today…?

Relates to Bangalow Bruce Pringle

April 10, 2014
Posted by Bruce Pringle

Posting from a cow paddock in Dorrigo Nsw !

Tech Padock

Relates to General

March 31, 2014
Posted by Jen Banks

Rings of Silver, Steel and Gold

A range of styles and collections here – different styles, metals, stones, sizes, colours and collections 🙂

Textured wide, and polished narrow bands

Steel and sterling ring. From our 13 Boxes Exhibition

Star Nebula Ring – sterling and deep blue stones

Star Nebula Ring. Sterling, amethyst, citrine, peridot

Steel and amber ring. For an upcoming exhibition

Steel and 9ct gold ring. From our 13 Boxes exhibition

The evolution – from coral to star nebula rings

Follow the yellow brick road. Sterling and 9ct gold.

Wheat ring.

Textured stackers

Stackers, stackers, and more stackers!

Steel and 9ct gold ring. From our 13 Boxes exhibition

Sea bubbles ring in sterling.

Relates to Bangalow Jen Banks

March 28, 2014
Posted by Bruce Pringle

“By all and any means”

This is how we get there.. by all and any means !

Welded, forged and fabricated steel

more on the Navigator theme..

Relates to Bangalow Bruce Pringle General Hobart

March 16, 2014
Posted by Bruce Pringle

Royal Queensland Art Society’s “Different Dimensions” sculpture/3D group exhibition at Petrie Terrace Gallery Brisbane … Bruce Pringle

Great exhibition.. lovely people .. big thanks to Vashti-Sita and Peter Hubbard and all the artists involved !

: The Three pieces I took along .. all with a bit of a nautical theme at a bit of a stretch… journeys anyhow.. Directions?

Relates to Bangalow Bruce Pringle Hobart

March 6, 2014
Posted by Julian

Lucky

A customer came into the shop with a guitar pick and a machine head tied to a piece of leather around his neck. He took them off and told me a story about them.

“See this machine head? It used to be on my favourite guitar .. I had just driven to a mate’s place and took my guitar out of the boot. My mobile rang and after I had finished taking the call I noticed that I had parked my car very close to the car in front so I decided to move my car back a little. I was reversing when I heard a crunch and feeling devastated I ran to the back of the car to see what I had damaged. I had left my guitar case on the ground behind the car but the only damage I did was to pop off this machine head. ‘That was lucky!’, I thought & tied the machine head to this piece of leather and hung it around my neck.

“I’m a big Stephen Stills fan and I was at his concert a few years ago .. down the front. He flicked his guitar pick out into the audience. I put up my open hand and closed it around the pick. ‘That was lucky’, I thought & tied it to the piece of leather with the machine head. I’m a bit bored of this leather, can you put them on a chain and maybe make them into a pendant.”

“Sure”, I said. This is what we came up with.