I love a good cinema and particularly those built in the Art Deco style of the early 20th century. So I made it my business to tour a few of these sites during Open House London 2014. The Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley is a classic, but it was the odd, squat Odeon in Muswell Hill that really caught my eye. When I decided to start working on some graphic design and screen prints I returned to some photos I snapped during that visit and put together a short series. It has since been refurbished, but the venue was fairly dilapidated and poorly maintained. A Grade II listed building from 1936, it was clearly struggling to compete with more contemporary cinemas in the area. The venue was still charming in its ageing, a monument to the early days of popular cinema. I wanted to capture some of these thoughts and unique design features in this series. I started with a photograph of the striking facade, using some thresholding techniques to indicate decay. The composition gets lighter at the top, with the iconic sign fading into the permanence of the background. I printed this on 150 gsm card, though it had a slight texture to it. The print was a good early experiment for me with thresholding and contrasts.
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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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