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

The Blacksmiths… www.facebook.com/pages/Tasmanian-artist-blacksmiths-association/219791951451059?ref=hl mostly of Hobart’s Hammer and Hand, Built this one afternoom at MONA  www.mona.net.au/ as a public performance to a soundscape of digitaly manipulated samples from the forging process…

A few statement rings (mind you don’t take someone’s eye out!), and some delicate little flowers.

A Great exhibition !..including the works of 6 members of Hammer and Hand, Hobart.

Ella Knight

Rosie and I are on the road to Deloraine in Tasmania where I will be helping with the “Tasmanian Artist Blacksmiths “demonstration at the Tasmanian Craft Fair (I will be comparing and stopping them talking to girls while they build a piece of street furniture for the town .  I am also part of a group metal exhibition at Artifakt Gallery in Deloraine titled “A Forged Landscape”.

I made some new sterling silver earrings today using the Cuttle Bone Casting technique. There’s lots of cuttle bone on the beaches around Byron Bay and it’s fun to collect. It’s very soft so you can use just about anything to carve designs into it. It’s very resistant to heat so it’s perfect for using as a mold to cast jewellery. Cuttle bone has a beautiful wavy texture that is transferred to the finished item. Here are some pictures of the process…

and here’s the finished earrings…

Sterling Silver Earrings by Julian de Saxe

….and shiny…..and colourful….and ordered….and random….enough about me – here are some earrings!

http://www.tascraftfair.com.au/pages/exhibitions/blacksmith-showcase.php

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2009/08/090811_gold_1.shtml