Ngarru Miimi
Ngarru Miimi is a slow ethical fashion label handprinted, designed and constructed on unceded Wiradjuri country by Lillardia Briggs-Houston.
Lillardia aims to create change by using fashion and textiles to challenge perspectives of Aboriginal peoples and culture.
Through each sustainable and ethical garment, Lillardia respectfully highlights the strength, pride and connection as Aboriginal people and collectively showcase Aboriginal culture as a daily reminder that Aboriginal people are, and always will, stand strong on their traditional lands.
Lubajo
Lubajo Apparel is a Brisbane based clothing company, founded by Sanyu, a fun, vibrant woman from South Sudan who loves all things colourful.
Lubajo believes wearing colourful pieces is a way of expressing yourself and celebrating life. Lubajo Apparel source their materials and make those pieces within Australia.
They have a zero waste policy meaning they endeavour to utilise every piece of material. They fuse African prints with the current trends in the western world to bring people colourful unique pieces of clothing.
Get yourself Lubajo’s collection on their Instagram and Website
Juddarnje
Juddarnje Natural Skincare is 100% Australian Made Skincare and Indigenous Owned.
Draw on the botanical's unique benefits, they inspired to create natural and safe skin care products, instead of the synthetic and chemically based ones so readily available on the market. They set out to showcase what the Australian Indigenous people already knew. Knowing that they working with the nature, they highlight the importance of respecting the mother earth and treat it gently .
Their journey started with a batch of original hand-made soap, and has since expanded to include creams, lotions and balms, all created with the same philosophy; 'keep it natural'.
Buy From The Bush
A showcase of beautiful things to buy from rural communities across Australia. Shop. Invest in the bush!
Buy From The Bush is a marketplace for Australian bush business. Think of it as your gateway to rural and regional Australia.
They bring together the butchers, the bakers and the candlestick makers (of which there may not be thaaaat many) in small rural communities across Australia. They make it easy for small businesses to sell their products and for consumers to shop with purpose.
Bush Medijina
‘This Bush Medijina, it did not start yesterday, or last year, or even the year before that. It has always been here. Always. Our recipes have been here for generations.” Gayangwa Lalara OAM
Bush Midijina is a social enterprise that harvest local bush produce and combines it with natural and sustainable ingredients to create a range of exquisite botanical products. Created by Warningakalina women, to share their culture with others, and to preserve their traditions and knowledge for future generations.
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.
Mainie Silk Scarves
Mainie is a growing collection of scarves, wraps, tops and ties that are beautifully handcrafted in 100% pure silk. Each exquisite piece has been lovingly designed to feature authentic Aboriginal artworks and Dreamtime stories reproduced in sundrenched colours painted by traditional women artists from the Central Desert and in bright luminous hues of the reef and rainforest by artists from Tropical North Queensland
The company is run by Charmaine Saunders or ‘Mainie’, a proud descendant of the Gunggari Aboriginal people from the Maranoa River region of south western Queensland with family ties to the Woorabinda and Cherbourg Aboriginal communities.
Charmaine’s love of Aboriginal fine arts is palpable, developed over many years of working in remote Aboriginal communities in Queensland and the Northern Territory.
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
Kakadu Tiny Tots
Kakadu Tiny Tots is a wholly Australian owned company that creates authentic Aboriginal clothing, accessories and artwork. All of their designs originate and are uniquely handcrafted in remote indigenous communities in the Northern Territory of Australia.
The company was founded on a joint idea to incorporate the gap in the market of quality Indigenous based children’s clothing and to recognise and acknowledge the aboriginal people of Australia. Over the last 35 years their head designer Sheril Cahill (Murrumburr) has made and crafted jewellery, clothing and other garments for both her community and clients worldwide. She is a highly respected traditional owner of Kakadu National Park.
Check out their full range on their website.
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
Magpie Goose
Magpie Goose was founded by Laura Egan and Maggie McGowan in 2016 after being exposed to the incredible textiles being produced by remote community art centres.
They both have a long history of working in solidarity with Aboriginal people and communities and have dedicated our professional careers to addressing social and economic inequality.
Magpie Goose was about creating a platform to showcase Aboriginal culture through wearable art. Magpie Goose taps into an expansive network of collaborators and suppliers, all who contribute their energy and talents into making the incredible clothing they produce.
On their website, you can read more about the Aboriginal artists, communities, models, photographers and artisans that they work with, including their social impact goals and successes.
This photo is reposted from their Instagram, featuring clothes from their first collection, with credit to Kalumburu Photography Collective and Freedom Garvey.