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.
Salisbury Grange
Salisbury Grange is all about making it easy for everyone to grow amazing organic flowers and vegetables at home and to take care of the environment at the same time.
Phoebe Greally, women behind Salisbury Grange created the company based on her own experiences that this was what she need when she starts growing plants. It is meant to be EASY and FUN! She hopes that people enjoy growing at home, from a pot of basil, to a row of lettuce, to a field of sunflowers.
Head to their Instagram!
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
Exquisite Leather
Cherryl McIntyre is a leather artisan based in Brisbane, Australia whose passion for the craft has been an inspiration to many for over three decades.
A founding member of The Leathercrafters Association of Qld Inc and organiser for the International Leather Conferences “Dimensions in Leather”, her love of the craft started as a hobby 30 years ago.
Known for her exquisite attention to detail and vast experience in the craft, (not to mention her signature leather flowers) Cherryl is a full time tutor and is the Designer-Maker behind her own label ‘Exquisite Leather’ creating range of elegant handmade leather products.
The Exquisite Leather website has beautiful artisan objects and fashion for sale, as well as online tutorials and workshops where you can learn to make leather flowers and other decorative leather embellishments.
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.
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
Ecolateral
Ecolateral is one of Australia’s longest running retailers specifically devoted to the supply of good quality, eco-friendly, sustainable products.
Female CEO Jamie Stott says, “We believe our role is to create awareness of the environmental issues and potential solutions, then source the best eco-friendly products. Our aim is to equip the growing community of eco-warriors with the tools and resources needed to make a real difference in an achievable and affordable way, and in doing so help one million households live more sustainably.