Project Space
Block D interior, Bletchley Park by Rachael Marshall
At work in Block C, Bletchley Park by Rachael Marshall
At work in Block D, Bletchley Park by Rachael Marshall
Station X
4 - 27 May 2012
Preview: 3 May, 6 - 8pm
Station X, MK Gallery’s Project Space exhibition during May, offers a multi-sensory insight into the derelict buildings of Bletchley Park, (otherwise known as Station X), the home of the World War Two code-breakers, and arguably one of Britain’s most important historical sites.
The exhibition is the result of a unique collaboration between installation artist Maya Ramsay, sound artist Caroline Devine, photographer Rachael Marshall and film maker Luke Williams. Together they provide a contemporary interpretation of Station X, by documenting the visual and aural histories imbued in the very fabric of the buildings, before they are lost when planned renovation takes place. This includes work made from surfaces lifted from the walls of the buildings, recordings of sounds produced by and within the decaying buildings, and photographic and filmed documentation of the buildings.
Eleven thousand people worked in secret at Bletchley Park during World War Two and were sworn to secrecy about their activities for the following thirty years. In some of the buildings it appears as if the workers have just downed tools and left; a rusty coat hanger swings on a hook with a name scrawled on it and diagrams lie in a file covered in mould. Others provide fascinating insights into what happens when nature is left to its own devices in a building for two and a half decades.
BBC reporter Richard Williams interviews the artists in one of the huts they worked in at Bletchley Park.
Related Information
MK Gallery Project Space
Presents monthly exhibitions of contemporary visual art by individuals or groups based in
Milton Keynes.
Station X Artists
Other Current Projects
Caroline Devine
Oscillations Project
A sound installation in
MK Theatre District
21 June - 29 July 2012
