Bec Fing Designs
By day, Bec Fing is a Business, HR and WHS consultant living in Goondiwindi, QLD. By night, she is a side hustling artist who loves colour, feminine designs and all things beautiful. Bec has always enjoyed being creative and loves the medium of fabric and paint! She delights in seeing her hand painted homewares in beautiful homes across Australia!
Her original designs are hand-painted or digitally printed. Check out her range of fabric, lamps, cushions, napery, and hanging art on her website, Instagram or Facebook.
Sisters Inside
Established in 1992, Sisters Inside is an independent community organisation based in Queensland, which advocates for the collective human rights of women and girls in prison, and their families, and provides services to address their individual needs. At Sisters Inside, we believe that no one is better than anyone else. People are neither “good” nor “bad” – our environment and life circumstances play a major role in how we behave. Improved opportunities can lead to a major transformation in criminalised women’s lives. Complex factors lead to women and girls’ entering and returning to prison. Criminalisation is usually the outcome of repeated and intergenerational experiences of violence, poverty, homelessness, child removal and unemployment, resulting in complex health issues and substance use. First Nations women and girls are massively over-represented in prison due to the racism at the foundation of systems of social control...
You can show your support for women in prison and their families by purchasing their t-shirts and resources. All profits go to continuing Sisters Inside’s work.
Here to their Facebook and Instagram
Check their all-range ladies puzzle on the website
Lolli & Pop
Lolli & Pop creation born from the love of watercolour painting.
Lolli & Pop is a way of expressing their passion for creating art. Hand-painted watercolour designs printed vibrantly on canvas shoes & bags, each with a unique story to tell.
They proudly donate 5% profit from each pair of shoes sold to the Australian Wildlife conservancy, because giving back is what they do!
Visit their Website and Instagram for the original artworks and fabrics
Anna Sutherland Design
Anna Sutherland is an Australian textile designer passionate about creating colourful and unique designs, screen printing intricate patterned fabric and tea-towels.
A variety of textile techniques are used to create her vibrant and heavily patterned product range. All fabric designs are initially hand drawn before being transformed and put into repeats on the computer ready for multiple textile applications.
Meeraboo Candles
Run by mother and daughter team, Deb and Danni, Meeraboo is a lovingly family run bussiness from thier family home. Handcrafted in the heart of Central West NSW, Meeraboo creating candles with the most purest form of soy wax on the market. This ensures they are delivering an eco friendly candle of the highest quality. Thier aesthetic is minimalist and classic, working in a palette of matte white, gold and natural hues to complement the style of every home.
Check them out on their Instagram
Riverbend Books
Riverbend Books is one of Australia’s best independent bookshops, located in lovely Bulimba, a short drive, bus ride or CityCat trip from Brisbane city. They have a wide-ranging selection of books including many independent publishers.
Owner, Suzy Wilson, opened the shop in 1998, after quitting her day job and following her dream and love for books.
“It’s just really special to be able to share our love for books with people around the community, it’s a special bond that we share with our customers,” says Suzy.
They offer a range of Book Hampers for all occasions, whether it be a newborn baby, a graduation, a housewarming present, a birthday, or an engagement — whatever the occasion is, they can make a perfect hamper. You can also make your own, choosing from all of the stock in the store.
Check them out here on their website.
Tjanpi Desert Weavers
A social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council, Tjanpi Desert Weavers work with women in the remote Central and Western deserts who earn an income from contemporary fibre art.
Purchase unique, stunning, baskets, beads, jewellery and sculpture. They also have a Weaving Kit with an accompanying video tutorial, so you too can make beautiful pieces of usable art.
Djilpin Arts
In a remote Northern Territory Indigenous community, Djilpin Arts has, for nearly two decades, developed a vibrant and thriving cultural enterprise.
Djilpin Arts is represented as a tall, strong tree. It has deep roots holding strong the core cultural values of its community and people. These roots have grown a tall, powerful tree with a canopy of far reaching branches, where cultural expression meets community wellbeing to provide fruitful outcomes, year after year. A healthy tree produces flowers, fruits and seeds that support the regeneration process. In the Djilpin vision, these outcomes are active expressions of cultural knowledge and are regenerative, keeping the cultural water flowing.
Visit their website for exquisite original artworks and fabrics, including picnic blankets, sarongs and cushion covers.
Open House
Open House is a boutique retail store and gallery located in the eclectic inner-city suburb of West End. A collaborative project between Blaklash, Local Maker's Collective and Boxvintage, the space offers customers a unique selection of products from local makers, artists and artisans and a election of Aboriginal art and products from art centres across the country.
Head to their website, Facebook or Instagram to check out new wares and snap up a unique original work.
Island Arts Collective
A collective of works of art, journals, clothing, framed prints, weaving, homewares, linen clothing, and cards, made on Qundamooka country. Featured artists are Delvene Cockatoo-Collins, Paula Boosamra, Julie Sisco and Amber Vicum.
Beautiful works from Minjerribah, Quandamooka Country.
Check out the Island Arts Gallery Instagram here
Bimbi Love
BIMBI LOVE is a creative concept store, showcasing a unique style and art across an array of forms...
Owned and operated by two sisters, members of the Kungalu and Birri Gubba peoples of Central Queensland. The word Bimbi is from the Birri Gubba dialect meaning good, so Bimbi Love means good love!
Based between Brisbane and Melbourne, offering a range of jewellery, accessories, print art, custom gifts and design services.
It is Bimbi Loves' aspiration to provide authentically made Aboriginal products, to encourage the economical development of Aboriginal owned and operated business.
Head to their website here
Woven Arts Gallery
Anaheke Metua is a much-admired fibre artist who was born and raised in Aotearoa, NZ descending from a wonderful mix of Maori / Cook Island, French, English, German ancestors. You can now purchase her incredible works online or from her gallery in Goompi (Dunwich), Minjerribah.
Light pendants, woven jewellery, gifts and boutique baskets are made with exquisite style. Custom orders are also available for commission.
Check out the gallery shop and her artist profile on Instagram @wovenartsgallery and @anaheke_metua_art