About
Suitcase Rummage is your local community market, without the hassle! Pack your suitcase with your pre-loved wares and/or handmade creations and sell straight out of your suitcase. It’s as easy as that!
We provide the insurance. There are no tents, no tables, no racks, no overheads and most importantly, no elitism.
Suitcase Rummage as a social enterprise began as a humble alternative to the community market scene, where mass produced items reigned and local makers and collectors struggled to compete. The idea was born over a cup of tea by two young gals (Daniele & Isabel) desperate for change.
What started as a grass roots market in Brisbane has grown to become a sustainable market alternative across the country. We herald recycling, encourage more conscious consumption and connect community!
We encourage local communities to vote with their dollar, create more conscious consumer habits and to think differently about products they produce and purchase. We aim to present an alternative platform for clothing and product consumption by encouraging practices of crafting, making, creating, designing, recycling, upcycling, swapping and bartering. Through the Rummage we are diverting products from landfill, encouraging a revolution of goods and good-will by caring about where stuff comes from and where it may end up. Recycling is cool, hand made is cool, cool can be affordable. By gently shifting our attitudes and consumer patterns, we are capable of radical change!
"To change the system, we must change the culture it thrives in." (Fashion Revolution)
Meet our Team
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Daniele
Founder, Director
Daniele is an artist, creative producer and art therapist, living and working on Kombumerri Country / Gold Coast. Daniele started Suitcase Rummage in Meanjin/Brisbane in 2010, as a bright eyed and enthusiastic marketeer, she was eager to foster change in the market scene and bring like minded community together. Inspired by her Nana Rose to op shop and her sister to scrounge for vintage, she has always appreciated second hand, found objects and the stories that come with them.
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Emily
Marketing & Market Coordinator
Emily Nelson is an illustrator and ceramicist based in Coolangatta on the Gold Coast. Emily was involved in Suitcase Rummage when it first began in Brisbane, as a stall holder selling her own art prints and hand made accessories. For the past 2 years, Emily has enjoyed working for Suitcase Rummage, as a market coordinator and social media manager.
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Alice
Administrator & Market Coordinator
Alice is an artist based between Brisbane and Melbourne. She’s a lover of abstract expressionism and illustration. In her spare time she likes to play soccer and go on adventures with her dog. She’s passionate about shopping secondhand and from makers to support artists like herself and cut down on fashion waste. Alice loves helping behind the scenes answering your emails and helping you get ready to Rummage!
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Ruby
Market Coordinator, Meanjin
Ruby is your friendly rummage gal. When Ruby is not busy finding bargains at the rummage, she is painting up a storm in her studio. She is often working towards exhibitions and if not, experimenting with any and all types of media. But above all, Ruby loves a chat so please say hey if you see her around!
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Olivia
Market Coordinator, Meanjin
Olivia Dean-Jones is a Brisbane born and based artist and graphic designer. Graduating from QCA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2014, her practice consists of vibrant portraiture and explores bodily forms. In addition to working as a market coordinator at Suitcase Rummage, she also runs a biannual artist and maker market in the south of Brisbane and shows her work regularly in galleries around the city.
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Anne
Market Coordinator, Sydney
Anne is an op-shopaholic based in Sydney. Her greatest achievement is having been to 95% of all op shops within Sydney’s metropolitan area. Outside of gallivanting around Sydney’s op shops, she’s a collector of all things Atomic Age, an enthusiastic cook and appreciator of all things food and interior design related.