In a world where tools are mass produced and easily replaced Nate Savill and Chris Ellwood have teamed up to create hand crafted garden tools. On Saturday 18 March Nate will be onsite at ºTEMP demonstrating the process of forging trowels and other hand tools for tending the earth..

As Nate says: “It is strangely oxymoronic to be burning coal at a climate change event, but it is being used to make tools. Its a demonstration of using small amounts of natural resources, at a local level to produce things directly for people.”

Nate Savill (a.k.a. Nate the Blacksmith) creates his work with a mixture of traditional blacksmithing skills combined with the playful subversion of contemporary art themes and practices to make objects which lie outside the traditional craft paradigm. He is a recent graduate from Unitec’s Bachelor of Design and Visual Art and works as an exhibition technician at a number of galleries including Te Uru Contemporary Gallery in Titirangi Auckland and the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Previously he spent a year working with a blacksmith in Westport.