This object represents the challenge of creating a 3D form from a flat metal sheet. Using hammers and a flame, Haneman bends the metal to her wishes. Starting from 2D sketches, drawing 30 different shapes, choosing one in the end, she moves to 3D clay models to understand shape, size and movement of the object.
Length 13 cm
Width 115 cm
Height 12 cm
©Yossi Masa
©Naama Haneman
©Yossi Masa
©Naama Haneman
©David Hobson
Naama Haneman
- Metalworker
- London, United Kingdom
- Master Artisan
©Yossi Masa
Between chaos and order
- • Naama devotes herself to vessels
- • Her first specialisation is jewellery
- • She was awestruck by silversmithing
Naama Haneman is a visionary, young metal artist. After specialising in jewellery at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, she worked as a jewellery designer for commercial brands, while exhibiting her own pieces in contemporary art and jewellery shows all over the world. Then she moved to London for a Master’s degree at the John Cass University: here she was suddenly spellbound by silversmithing and soon left jewellery. “For the first time it felt like I was in the right place for me. Working with metal on a big scale felt different from anything else” she says. Naama sculpts in metal through a movement renewed every moment by emotion, without any previous plan or intention to build a useful object, devoting herself completely to the vessels.
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Photo: ©Boaz Nobelman
In Between vessel
Photo: ©Boaz Nobelman
The Calm Before the Storm bowl and vase
This tactile bowl represents a frozen meeting point between opposite shapes, textures and state of the metal. It sits in confidence on the table but also asks to be touched and nestled in the hands. The vase embodies a constant movement between different sides, seeking for a point where they become one.
Photo: ©Boaz Nobelman
In Between vessel
Haneman sculpts metal with movements flowing from inside and controls the metal through the beat of her hammer. Her work aims at embodying a constant dialogue between external and internal, seen and unseen: sometimes the first overcomes the other one, but they’re both always present.
Length 11.5 cm
Width 5.5 cm
Height 13 cm
Photo: ©David Hobson
Ducks carafe
These containers are reminiscent of animals with a beak, sitting on the table, watching and waiting, ready to be used. They are tactile and can be comfortably nestled in the soft ergonomics of the hand and be used either as containers or on their own. Handcrafted with traditional techniques: heating, hammering, raising, chasing and repoussé.
Length 9 cm
Width 7 cm
Height 14 cm
Length 8 cm
Width 8 cm
Height 11 cm
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