News Don't miss out on the headlines from News. Followed categories will be added to My News. The Darwin creative behind uber-cool Parap arts hub Laundry Gallery has opened the doors to the country’s first 100 per cent Aboriginal-owned centralised screen printing and licensed textile manufacturing hub.
PrintShopNT, located at Winnellie, is the brainchild of Nina Fitzgerald, who, aside from her work with Laundry Gallery, is also the creative director of Going North Agency (alongside Shaun Edwards, founder of House of Darwin). The new hub will be a multi-user facility with two core operational pillars: a commercial manufacturing facility consolidating the printing activity of Aboriginal artists, arts organisations and business’ across the Northern Territory and Australia more broadly; and as a community-focused art space that services and supports all art centres that use screen-printing as a medium (this pillar is registered as a not-for-profit social enterprise). Darwin creative Nina Fitzgerald (of Laundry Gallery fame) has, with PrintShopNT, located at Winnellie, achieved an Australian first.
Picture: Supplied Among its capabilities, PrintShopNT is equipped with a carousel for screen-printing on things like T-shirts and tote bags; an infra-red conveyor oven for drying textiles; an in-house screen exposure service; a 14.5m screen-printing table for printing by metreage. “The NT is under-resourced and disconnected from the broader fashion supply chain – so I am bringin.