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

Greetings all, sorry i didn’t do this sooner, here is just a quick update of my details for the website.

My name is Vaughn I am a practicing blacksmith & jeweller from Tasmania.
I focus mostly on dark age inspired Norse and Celtic styles of art. I have also worked for films doing work as a prop maker.

I work in many mediums but focus mostly on Smithing and jewellry .

Email: morphettvaughn@gmail.com

The working title for this collection was, “My Gay Cowboy Brooches”, which while it has a certain ring to it, I think “Chaps” might be a little more subtle and broader perhaps.  The collection was originally created for a year of the horse exhibition at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery in Ballina (NSW).

There were five or six pieces in the collection then and they were all snapped up.  Over time the collection has grown to 10 (with more to come I’m sure).

They’re fun and great conversations starters.

I’ve altered a Bee wax seal to give it 3D relief .. impressed it to FIMO and sand-cast them in Bronze.

What will they become, I wonder?  and where will they go?… Little time-traveling bees!

Sand-cast bronze bees

Hammer and Hand

An opportunity has come up for membership of Hammer and Hand. Please call Bruce for information. 0409960614

Established in 1994 in Hobart Tasmania and in 2009 a second branch was opened in Byron Bay NSW.

Hammer and Hand is a Jewellery and Metal collective and is a working Jewellery Workshop and Gallery open seven days a week and staffed by members of the collective.

Hammer and Hand is known and loved by locals and visitors alike. Admired for its Eclectic metal work and Jewellery, ranging through forged iron pieces and stainless steel utensils, to handcrafted mirrors, leather and metal accessories, fine art, sculpture, and art cards, but with the emphasis always on Jewellery and Metal.

The collective offers, for its members, a business address, workshop with basic jewellery making tools and a retail showroom/gallery

The twenty or so members trade and operate as individual businesses under the umbrella of the collective.

Visit the Collectives website and blog …

www.hammerandhand.com

Some fine silver buckles (2x fish and a turtle), a dancer and two hands (sterling silver 925) and a spiral(316 stainless steel)

also two stainless steel spoons… The silver buckles are some older pieces that I’ve re-polished.