To go with my launderette series of prints I wanted to do some smaller post cards. These laundry baskets use the same combination of spot colour, vector shapes and half-tones as a contrast. The series comes in red, blue and mustard and is at A6 size. I managed to get some ink on my clothes making these so they were a constant reminder to put a load of washing on!
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This print, as part of the launderettes of Blackstock Road series, was a fun departure from the architecture of the buildings. The monotony of the large, dull washing machines is contrasted with colourful clothing spinning inside. As you can see below, it was pretty tricky to keep the colours separate as I worked the ink with the squeegee. In the end, I gave into the temptation to blur everything together and I'm happy with the unusual results of that experiment. Hopefully I can wash the ink out of my clothes! 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...
When our washing machine broke a few weeks ago I assumed we were pretty screwed for clean clothes. A few days in and beginning to stink, we turned to a launderette around the corner on Blackstock road. I had never actually been in a launderette and the experience jolted me into realising just how many are dotted around our neighbourhood. Launderettes somehow still stand as bastions against new wave coffee shops, wood-clad ramen restaurants and micro-brew pubs: they're part of the fabric of London life yet barely noticed amidst encroaching gentrification. For this print I wanted to give some more longevity to the launderette that got me out of a pinch. Based on a few photographs, I re-drew the façade and used half-tones to create a confused, noisey background. The launderette gets centre stage here, with the London street around it depicted as transient and shifting. I've been working on a few prints of other Blackstock Road launderettes under this theme and click here for part 2 and part 3.
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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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