Social enterprise celebrates 10 years

Killcare is home to a unique social enterprise that supports the cultural and economic sustainability of aboriginal-owned art centres in remote communities.

The Bouddi Gallery, based at Killcare, will be 10 years old in 2017.

It exclusively trades in the arts and crafts produced by the art centres and in homewares and lifestyle products made under licensed arrangements with art centres and aboriginal artists.

The business model ensures that the aboriginal artists and communities producing the art directly benefit from their sales.

Art centres are community-based cooperatives, owned and managed by aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people.

They are innovative and vibrant spaces that provide economic, social and cultural benefits where culture is kept strong, passed on between old and young and a vital avenue for indigenous people to share their art and culture with the world.

Website, 21 Dec 2016

Bouddi Gallery