I’m so excited to be one of six socially engaged artists working on QDT Laundrette – a project produced by Arts organisation, Quiet Down There CIC.
My contribution to the project will take a writing focus and I’m really looking forward to engaging with local Brighton laundrette staff and customers and seeing what stories arise or what poetry appears…
As I work on this project over the next few months, I’m documenting my process regularly via the QDT Laundrette Artists blog.
I have never met another launderette enthusiast, but I have taken dirty laundry on holiday for hundreds of miles just to visit somewhere like the Cinema Launderette, Durham. Another in Bloomsbury went to far with a shop, TV, billiards and armchairs, and went bust, but I keep the T shirt. Pity that covid will prevent you having a physical exhibition of launderette art – I might have bought something!
Josephine Hall 
I have never met another launderette enthusiast, but I have taken dirty laundry on holiday for hundreds of miles just to visit somewhere like the Cinema Launderette, Durham. Another in Bloomsbury went to far with a shop, TV, billiards and armchairs, and went bust, but I keep the T shirt. Pity that covid will prevent you having a physical exhibition of launderette art – I might have bought something!
Hi Martin, thanks for commenting :)
I’m due an update here because the project has now come to an end and I released a small zine of poetry a couple of weeks ago. You can read/listen here: https://qdtlaundrette-josephine.blogspot.com/2020/10/hope-laundry-zine-about-searching-for.html
Also, head to http://www.quietdownthere.co.uk/qdt-laundrette to see all the work from the 6 artists involved in the project.
Best wishes,
Josephine