There's something unusual about petrol stations in major cities like London. Perhaps its their height - necessarily lower than all surrounding buildings for safety reasons - or their secret underground chambers coursing with fuel, or indeed, the fact that a modern city is one that should be striving towards a reduction in fossil fuel usage. London petrol stations are an anomaly, at odds with the city's green ambitions and rapid skyward expansion. For this print I wanted to highlight the weirdness of something we'd usually pass without considering. The grey half-tones of the background give the print a ghostly quality, questioning how long before these stations give-in to London's aesthetic and infrastructural changes.
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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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