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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