Tadhg Caffrey | Cabling: Noticing the Micro-City

When thinking about cities, we often recall landmarks and impressive architectural feats. San Francisco is the Golden Gate Bridge, London is the Shard, Paris is the Eiffel Tower. But how often do we actually understand a city only through these landmarks? Perhaps this is our brief view of a place during a short holiday trip or in glossy travel magazines, but usually this is not the scale at which we experience our cities.

Tadhg Caffrey’s new print series, Cabling, is based on the smaller experiences of the city. Cabling ignores the large impressive buildings and grand plans of architects, and instead focuses on the everyday glimpses of London streets; the texture of brickwork, the worn-down plastic coating of electrical wires, and pollution-stained glass. At this scale the city is a messy patchwork of materials that make little sense and barely function correctly. Cabling invites the viewer to pay more attention to the micro-city, and consider how the upkeep and deterioration of our streets gets far less attention than flashy landmarks.

Tadhg uses strong pops of colour combined with detailed half-tones to draw closer attention to these materials; their clash, their maintenance, and their importance as a visual tapestry of city life. He gradually builds these prints with complementary shades of grey and brown that are used to extract detail, with a final layer of black to tie all of these textures together.

Cabling 1 is a six layer screen print, whilst the second and third pieces in the series are composed of eight layers. All of the prints are limited edition, produced on 315gsm paper, and signed and embossed. Tadhg will continue the Cabling series with more prints showcasing the grit and texture of the micro-city.

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