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What do you make? Tell us about your product!

Our main product range and the line we will be stocking at the Autumn Hope Street Markets is called ‘skullbulb likes to drink…’ It is a variety of individually packaged products designed for drinking various kinds of beverages. Namely  tea, coffee, beer and liquor. Featured items include our sets of three button badges that satisfy your café obsession, and further motivate that unhealthy attachment to your barista. Our sand-blasted shot glasses are both classy and tough, for the style conscious girl who likes to throw down jager on a Sunday evening. skullbulb tea balls are a lovely gift idea for your tattooed nanna and the enamel painted beer openers will ensure you never have to settle for twist tops on your long necks.
     
As well as this main production line, we also work individually on our own ranges of contemporary jewellery. Tenille Evans' work features scrimshaw, a technique used by yankee whalers where designs are carved into whale ivory and filled with ink. She creates brooches, earrings, pendants and rings using traditional tattoo flash images carved in bone and horn, with leather, ribbon and sterling silver. Bernadette Trainor creates work that is striking, smart and modern with slightly disturbing feature elements. Necklaces made of beautiful glass and stone beads, strung on silk are coupled with meticulously carved sterling silver bones. Tiny red dolls shoes appear slightly disconcerting when worn with oversized black stones, out of context, around the neck. Skulls and flowers are also a common pairing.      

What's your creative background, your day job and how did you start making things?

Both Tenille and Bernadette studied Jewellery and Object Design at The Design Centre Enmore and graduated only last year in 2007. Bernadette also has a Bachelors degree in Interior Design. Tenille manages a café in Newtown and Bernadette applies her creativity to ice cream cake decoration, at a shop in Leichhardt.

What are the things you find most inspiring?

We both love the relationship between people and their things. Jewellery, the items we use in the home, our clothing and furniture all have such intense connections to who we are and our identity. We are both inspired by contrasts; traditional imagery, shapes and patterns coupled with crisp modern elements. Conceptually, we are equal parts frivolous and post-modern wank. We take our art very seriously, but have a lot of fun doing dumb stuff with it.    

Where is your workspace and what is it like?

skullbulb shares a workroom called Painting the Roses with two other artists. It is located on King Street, above an art shop and in close proximity to the many watering holes of Newtown.  

Why did you choose Hope Street Markets?

We love the concept behind Hope Street Markets, its commitment to the development of local design talent and it’s aesthetic. As recent graduates, and very new artists in the contemporary design community, we are viewing this opportunity at Hope Street Markets as a marketing tool, a way to launch our brand new product. By gauging the response we receive, we will be able to determine where we fit into the harsh and fickle contemporary object design industry.

Where would you like your art/brand to be in the future??

Ultimately, skullbulb wants to be able be profitable, mainly using their production line objects to fund our more adventurous contemporary ideas. 

Where can we buy your stuff?

We currently have no commercial stockists, but are happy to discuss commissions via email.

Website and point of contact:

www.myspace.com/skullbulb
skullbulb@hotmail.com