Dirty Linen washed on 12 pages

1862. Irish washerwoman at Counters Creek watches a turd floating downstream to the Thames.

A 16 year old laundress at a workshop on Latimer Road, 1890. Dreaming of better pay and romance. 

1924 and a depressed char lady, thinks about going to a birth control clinic that has opened in the area.

V-E day in Europe and women at the Silchester Road bath and wash house sing:
“We're going to hang out the washing on the Siegfried Line!”

Testerton Road, North Kensington 1967:
West Indian sisters are flooded out of a slum house and seek sanctuary at the bath house.

1970s: the building of Lancaster West estate and the campaign to save the Victorian bath and wash house.  

1980s: residents of Grenfell tower look down on the bulldozed bath and wash house. 

​Dirty Linen washed on 12 pages
Artist's book, 6x4"
Oil pastels, ink, pencil
2019

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