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

Cut an #anvil master from a piece of 1.6mm mild steel sheet and Cast in silver using #Cuttlefish bone/shell

These will be brooches I think…

Good day in the wkshp discussing conceptual jewellery/sculpture/adornment and straight-up derivative works, motivation/intention and merit/satisfaction … with a bit of quantum physics/beholding-eye chucked in for good measure ..

Thats how it can roll with Lucille !!

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..

Cuttlefish Cast Brooch “Many before me have been called by the sea” (Tom Waits, Shiver me Timbers)

Sterling silver, Steel chain, Bronze ‘pirate heart’.

The Acetylene Regulator I have been waiting for has arrived , so I can continue with the “Catch Dinosaur at Four” piece but meanwhile.. Some Cuttlefish casting got done …. a Pirate Heart and an as yet unfinished Anchor .. both in Sterling.

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 !

A bit more progress but I need to use Acetylene I realize  .. and now I’m waiting for a new regulator to arrive ….