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Meeting Place – a place of gathering for tribes

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Meeting Place -a place of gathering for tribes.

Our new collaboration piece with Thomas is called Meeting Place. The design depicts a place of gathering for tribes. The lines indicate direction of significant features such as waterholes and sacred sites.

Designed in collaboration with Indigenous Artist Thomas Avery. Thomas ‘Bagaay’ Avery is a descendant of the Gamilaroi tribe in northern NSW. His personal totem is the blue tongue lizard. Thomas’s ancestors were born at Bohena Creek Aboriginal Reserve, Narrabri. Thomas is a painter, designer and filmmaker using his unique insights to communicate his culture.

Products include luggage tags and journals in 2 colours natural kraft and natural black. These items are made from quality recycled leather which combines 60% genuine leather fibres from the European shoe and handbag industry.

These items are all made in Australia by our local supplier.

 

To purchase Thomas’s new Meeting Place collection, click here.

Window Gallery this week: Katarina Hackman

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A Feast of Fruit- A Still Life Exhibition by Katarina Hackman

Currently featuring in the Corban & Blair Window Gallery beside the station in Lewisham. In this selection of fruit themed Still Life acrylic art works painted on canvas, Katarina explores the power of colour combined with form. Simple objects are imbued with an otherness beyond their physical shape with uplifting and contrasting colours. Reflecting the energy of the subjects, shadows provide volume and intensity. In this way, Katarina’s art practice utilises a colourist perspective to seek out the beauty in everyday objects and provide restful contemplation for the viewer.

Corban & Blair have been supporting the creativity of local artists for the past 2 years in the Window Gallery. For more information about having an exhibition contact us at [email protected]

Artist contact details: [email protected] |  katarinahackmanart

Marvellous Mandarins 2022 Size: 20.5 cm x 20.5 cm Acrylic painting on canvas
Lovely Lemons 2022 Size: 20.5 cm x 20.5 cm Acrylic painting on canvas
Duo of Pears Size: 20.5 cm x 20.5 cm Acrylic painting on canvas
Fabulous Figs 2022 Size: 20.5 cm x 20.5 cm Acrylic painting on canvas
Kiwifruit Cocktail 2022 Size: 25 cm x 30 cm Acrylic painting on canvas

Cardboard notebook made from repurposed fruit and wine boxes

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Did you know we offer corporate solutions? Boxes collected from the streets of Sydney and re-purposed into notebooks filled with 100% recycled paper stock. Made by Corban & Blair for Ball & Doggett. Ball & Doggett are Australia’s largest distributor of printable material and press consumables. They were looking for a gifting solution that highlighted the importance of sustainability within their industry which was gifted to attendees of the Women in Packaging forum.

Fruit and wine boxes collected from local businesses around Sydney

We’re now a Certified B corporation

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We're now a Certified B corporation.

This important milestone was achieved last month, we are proud to be part of this community. To become a certified B corpoartion® companies are independently assessed by the non-profit organisation B-Lab to meet the highest standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. 

Corban & Blair are committed to exceptional design and manufacturing in Australia and collaborating with Indigenous artists, artisans, and poets. Our focus is to create products that are sustainable, personal, and meaningful using recycled and upcycled material. 

Becoming a B Corp was a natural next step in demonstrating our commitment to using business as a force of good.

To learn more about B Corp, click here.

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A new collaboration collection with HUNT Leather

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Collaboration collection Hunt Leather & Corban & Blair

Two family businesses join together to design and make genuine and recycled leather products in Australia.

It has been a fun partnership that flourished during COVID. We were both looking for new ideas and new products to delight our customers. With our combined design and manufacturing capabilities we have created a range of products that people can use at home or at work. Products can be ordered in quantity with logos and initials or just one piece at a time. We look forward to continuing our relationship with the team at Hunt leather and designing many more products.

To see the full range of Hunt Leather collaboration products, click here.

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Window Gallery this week: Alissa Cook

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Alissa Cook

Alissa is a self-taught photographer, who works from her home near Callan Park. Alissa is drawn to patterns and shapes in nature. She generally focuses on close-up floral photography but also enjoys wildlife and landscapes from time to time. Alissa takes inspiration from the local surroundings as well as Botanic Gardens, offerings from florists, and trips to National Parks.

She has always had a love of embroidery and decided, during the first COVID lockdown, to experiment and combine her two loves. This is her first collection whereby her fine-art photographs are hand embroidered with stranded cotton. This series of images were taken at Mt Annan Australian Botanic Gardens, The Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney and The Blue Mountains Botanic Gardens at Mt Tomah, and 1 image (Native Violet) is from her garden.

If you would like to see the close-up details of the embroidery in each frame please go to Alissa’s Instagram page.

Enquire at Corban & Blair or call Alissa Cook 0418 439 089 or email [email protected]

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Window Gallery this week: SOMETHING DIFFERENT – Recycling artworks

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SOMETHING DIFFERENT - Recycling artworks

This month Corban & Blair have a different window exhibition.

We are recycling artworks for FREE to homes that will appreciate them. They have been found in cupboards, on the street and at the back of closets.

So far, we have recycled 10 items, the window is now looking very bare.

This activity connects the importance we at Corban & Blair, place on creativity and recycling reusing or repurposing.

They can be hung directly on the wall, be used as a canvas for a new painting, be the base for a combined work of art- the artist and a new artist. The frames can be coloured or decorated.

This is about fun, creativity, sharing and a message to be aware not to waste our resources.

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New collaboration with Thomas Avery

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New MAYAN collection

Corban & Blair have been working with Thomas for over 20 years. Thomas ‘Bagaay’ Avery is a descendant of the Gamilaroi tribe in northern NSW. Thomas’s ancestors were born at Bohena Creek Aboriginal Reserve, Narrabri and his personal totem is the blue tongue lizard.

Thomas is a painter, designer and filmmaker using his unique insights to communicate his culture. This new range features his painting MAYAN which depicts the drying waterholes surrounded by the brown of the drought ravaged earth.

The MAYAN product range is made from eco-friendly recycled material produced from post-consumer PET bottles with printed cotton linings. The product range includes a luggage tag, travel wallet, tech pouch, A5 journal, 13/14” and 15/16” laptop case.

Thomas’s new product range MAYAN can be seen here.

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Corban & Blair Recycled Leather ID Card Holder

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Corban & Blair Recycled leather ID card holder

Our ID card holder is made from quality recycled leather. The leather is made from combining 60% genuine leather fibres from the European shoe and handbag industry, 20% natural latex, 10% natural fat, 10% misc/raw material with tanning agents and water.

The ID Card Comes in 6 colours Red, Black, Tan Navy, natural kraft and Natural Black

It is the latest item we have introduced into our Australian made range.

Personalise with a name or initials, it is also perfect for Opal & other travel cards.

Purchase the ID card holders from our online store.

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In our Window Gallery this week: Artist Nicola Jones

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In our Window Gallery this week: Artist Nicola Jones

Nicola Jones is a self-taught artist who delved into a flora and fauna painting passion with gusto at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. Before that she taught primary school aged children in all the wonders of art making. She enjoys using acrylics, oils and gouache to create limited palettes using loose broad brushstrokes to create expressive art which showcases the depth of colour to focus the viewers’ experience of harmony. The theme of this exhibition is the Backyard Birds.

She works from her garden studio just a short walk from Sydney’s Blackwattle Bay. Nicola draws inspiration from her local surroundings as well as native gardens, the offerings from florist/flower markets and trips around this big beautiful land of Australia.

To see more of Nicola’s work, follow her @nicolajones_art on Instagram.

The window gallery is viewable 24/7, displayed at 4 Victoria St Lewisham. All pieces are available for purchase. Please contact us for more information.
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