Much of my stuff to date has used colour blocking so this print was a nice chance to try some overlapping. I love the iterative process of screen printing: it's fascinating to create a digital image, separate it into layers and build the image back up again by hand. As you can see in the images below, I started with the yolk, layered on the shell followed by the spoon and finally added the egg cup. The inks mixed up nicely though next time I'll likely make all of the colours a bit lighter to balance it out. I also had a few issues with an old ghost image knocking out some of the shell colour but I think the mottled effect on the shell adds to the finished piece. It was an EGGsperiment after all!
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I'm lucky to be friends with the extremely talented Kadie McGinley who rocks absolute socks as part of The Delta Slow. We were looking for a project to collaborate on and their upcoming EP launch was the perfect chance. The record is brilliant and was recorded at Old Paradise Studios in Hoxton. For the artwork, Kadie and me took an evening to explore the area around the studio and take some photographs. The towering, decaying gas cylinders in the area were inescapable and became the basis for the EP artwork. A few chats over pints and some listening sessions of the music sent me in the direction of the finished artwork. From that point it all came together pretty quickly, as the band and me were almost instantly on the same aesthetic page.
Half tones and vectors recur, setting up contrasts while keeping the images in stark black and white. The designs work for laser and screen printing and the band will be putting out copies of both in the next few weeks. I'll follow this up at some point with pics of the screen print session and other bits we created for the EP launch. It's been seriously fantastic collaborating with such exciting musicians on this one: make sure you give them a listen and grab the EP. I followed up my first launderette with a neighbouring one on Blackstock Road. As with the previous piece, I'm trying to play around with half tones and block colours in an effort to disrupt the usual way you would view somewhere like a launderette. As they fall into the background of gentrified north London we should pay them more attention before they completely disappear. On a whim, I attempted to place these two launderettes next to each other. I didn't use any proper registration to line everything up, but I'm happy with the result of this little experiment. Keep an eye out for part 3 of the series, my next trip to the launderettes of Blackstock Road is in a different direction...
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Tadhg CaffreyI'm an Irish printmaker, living in North London and focusing on urban landscape, construction and abstract geometry. My first name sounds like "tiger" without the last bit.
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