Author: Thu Nguyen
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Australian Design Centre
Object Shop is Australian Design Centre’s retail store located Darlinghurst, Sydney.Our mission is to support the vibrant Australian contemporary craft and design community, by showcasing the best new work of designers and makers from Sydney and around Australia.Object Shop has been operating since 2016, during which time the store has grown to represent over 100…
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Aboriginal Art Co
Driven by our commitment to Country, community, leadership and accountability, Aboriginal Art Co is connecting ethical and authentic art and artisan products to the market.We create space for our community to be comfortable and confident that they are being accurately represented.Our founders are Aboriginal. Troy Casey is a Kamilaroi man and Amanda Hayman has cultural…
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Nook
Nook reopens its brick and mortar store in September 2023, as a pop up, at West Village, West End. A stone’s throw from it’s origins on Browning Street. We continue to support and showcase local and handmade goods: pieces that you would keep for a lifetime.Our store is about a love and appreciation of well-designed,…
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Lucinda Babi
Lucinda Babi is a label creating modern ethical clothing on a made-to-order basis, based in Melbourne/Naarm, Australia. I founded the label in 2018 after completing a Fashion Honours degree, and have been hand-crafting pieces from my Collingwood studio since then.Originally from the UK, but now settled in Australia, I fuse inspiration from historic British references…
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Tara Whalley
Tara Whalley established her self-titled fashion brand in 2015, after returning to Australia after a year of working with war-affected Mayan weavers. It was this time in Guatemala that formed Tara’s painting practice- translating experience into artwork for fabric print and a clear direction for the basis of her fashion signature style. Her collections are…
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Winesmiths
To make something great you can’t make sacrifices. You don’t take shortcuts. You can never compromise.At Winesmiths we believe that affordable wine doesn’t have to come at the sacrifice of great quality. The creation of our premium range of Winesmiths wines began in 1984 and though we’ve learnt and grown over this time, that belief…
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Mother SPF
Growing up on the coastlines of Western Australia, Tandia inherited a passion for preserving the ocean from her parents, pearl farm owners outside of Broome. Summers spent fishing, crabbing, and camping led to a natural progression of studying science, majoring in Marine Biology. In 2016, Tandia’s world shifted on its axis when her mother, who…
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Foile
Foile is fundamental formulations for high vitality skin. Clean, bioactive ingredients for daily use. Easy, inclusive skincare. Our offering is low-key and high quality, genderless and multi-use. Uncomplicated for maximum flexibility so you can come as you are. Formulated for visible results.We are an independent, female-owned small beauty brand. Our founders, Suzanne Tuttle and Alexandra…
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Isobel Badin
Isobel Badin is a celebration of the arts, nature and freedom. It’s a look into our inner artist and an expression of our most authentic selves.All pieces are designed and sustainably made in Australia from organic fabrications. Their first collection Flower Power celebrates the wild and the free. It’s a patch of daisies, roses in…
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T’Arts Collective
What do you think of when someone says the word ‘art’? Most people would say… ‘something that goes on the wall’. That’s the problem a couple of Adelaide textile artists had when they wanted to put their textile art into Adelaide art galleries, 20 years ago. Most of the galleries either weren’t that interested, or…
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Ikuntji Artists
Ikuntji Artists is a member-based, not for profit, Aboriginal art centre. It is situated in the community of Haasts Bluff (Ikuntji), and has a board of seven Indigenous directors all of whom live and work locally. Haasts Bluff has a population of around 150 people. Ikuntji Artists is registered charity with both DGR and PBI…
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Tiwi Designs
Tiwi Designs has been printing textiles since the early 1980’s. The purpose built textile printing workshop is run by Osmond Kantilla, a master printer with over 20 years practical experience of printing textiles at Tiwi Design along with his assistant Alan Kerinauia.Osmond supervises the translation of original artworks onto screens and manages the production of…
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Mick’s Whip
In 1988, Mick was inspired to keep the old whip traditions alive whilst working on the Bicentennial project Droving Australia. He has since made specialised whips for Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman as used in Baz Luhrmann’s movie Australia.He has made personalised whips for George W. Bush, HRH Prince Phillip, Bill Gates, Rudolph (Rudi) Giuliani,…
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Tjanpi Weavers
Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council, working with women in the remote Central and Western desert regions who earn an income from contemporary fibre art. Tjanpi (meaning grass in Pitjantjatjara language) represents over 400 Anangu/Yarnangu women artists from 26 remote communities on the NPY lands. The…
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Riverglen Chalets
Riverglen Chalets is a tranquil forest retreat hidden in Margaret River. Self-contained and self-sufficient, it caters for everyone from single travelers, to couples, to families with big and small children as well as groups for up to 70+ guests (including weddings). Riverglen Chalets is a peaceful forest retreat, located just 10 minutes’ walk from Margaret…
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Mast
We are a furniture design and manufacturing company based in Brisbane, Australia.Mast was founded by Rory Morgan in 2012 as an exploration in design and making. He was quickly joined by his wife Kati Morgan as Mast grew into a business. In 2016, Christian Hakansson joined as a furniture maker after studying in Copenhagen, and…
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artisan
artisan is Queensland’s home of craft and design.artisan is a Meanjin (Brisbane) based not-for-profit organisation that has provided leadership and advocacy for Queensland’s craft and design sector for over 50 years. We deliver creative and commercial opportunities for our artists, and progressive creative programs for our audience. artisan is committed to broadening access, discourse and…
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The Great Southern Distilling Company
FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS TO A LEADING AUSTRALIAN CRAFT SPIRITS HOUSE3 Distilleries – 1 FamilyThe story of Great Southern Distilling Co begins back when founder Cameron Syme was growing up in a small town in the north-east wheat belt of Western Australia.He loved hearing stories of Scottish relatives who, so the story goes, gave up the…
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Bee Happy
Bee Happy® Apiaries was established in 1993 with Colin Fleay a 3rd generation Apiarist and his partner Ruth Hamlyn, together they run their apiary which homes 400 hives.Bee Happy® Apiaries is Certified Organic with NASAA (National Association For Sustainable Agriculture Australia) Reg – 6145.The Bee Happy® Bees are moved around the state of WA following…
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Bombinate Bee Company
Brendan Missenden is an Entomologist and the founder of Bombinate Bee Company. Together with his wife and their five children they share their beekeeping passion with others and teach the importance of keeping bees.They have a humming business and enjoy breeding queen bees and talking bees. They also have a line of honey products that…
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Bee All Natural
We are an ‘artesian’ family owned business, proudly operating since 2013. Our hives are located within local regions of South East Queensland. To ensure we provide premium quality raw honey and Start A Project hand made bee products to our customers, each hive site and their foraging surrounds is carefully assessed to ensure the bees’…
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Bush Bee
Bush Bees is an organisation that is incredibly passionate about Australia’s native bees. The happiness and health of our bees, and the conservation of wild bees, comes first in everything that we do.Bush Bees was founded in 2018 by Isaac Mayer at the age of 14, out of a passion for bees and nature. Since…
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Hives n Honey
Start your day off right with your favourite local honey!Taste the local favours of the Moreton Bay region with our beautiful range of honey!Choose from our mixed bush honey range and experience all the different flavours of the natural Australian bush and its different regions.Our Dragon Fruit honey has truly amazing fruity flavours from the…