The Odeon in Muswell Hill had some pretty unusual design features and I've been trying to distill these features into one print as an abstract homage. I ended up focusing on three of them: The external sign is a classic and I very much wanted to include their blocky font. I also really loved the Art Deco lamps: they've got a sense of movement, forming arrows that point towards the cafe and lobby while emitting muddied, low tone light. Finally, the faulty strip lighting inside the cinema screen area struck me as a good summary of this once vibrant cinema drifting into obscurity. This lighting strip also resembled 35mm film, the mainstay of the pre-digital days. This abstract piece gave me some hassle in printing as I had over-exposed my screen, meaning it was difficult to draw out the detail within the middle lamp. It's not worth posting those test prints but I hope to get back to this piece in the future.
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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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