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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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...
'Tis the season and all that so I've been working on a set of screen printed Christmas cards. I wanted to keep things minimal, and based on areas of London I've become familiar with this year: Upper Street in Islington, Kingsland Highstreet in Dalston and finally, Bloomsbury. Much of my art recently has been focussed on unusual architecture. For these cards, I aimed to represent landmarks from these areas in silhouettes, with some abstract snow flakes drifting upon the rooftops. For example, the Bloomsbury card features the Wilkins Building at University College London, the houses around Bedford Square and the Curzon cinema at the Brunswick Centre: The finer detail, particularly on the houses in this card really pushed the limits of my screen and there was some blue air in the studio as I had initial trouble with ink smudging. Thankfully, with some good advice I rectified the issues (there was a lot of playing around with clamps, vices and screen bed heights) and completed the series on Friday. There are three street designs, each with two editions of different coloured snow flakes. Here's the Bloomsbury card again, this time in red, pre-folded and on the drying rack: My Upper Street card has a few cafés, Union Chapel and Screen on the Green, while the Kingsland Highstreet card features Ridley Road Market, Kingsland shopping centre and the Rio cinema. Each has the series titled printed on the back.
I'm hesitant to throw up lots of pictures of the series because I intend to actually send them to people and don't want to spoil the surprise: but if you insist, use the below slideshow to see the other designs! I'm also looking to sell some of these on the cheap to help cover my costs, so drop me a line if you're interested in a few blank ones. |
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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